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Monday, February 15, 2010

Gold CANADA Gold!

I couldn't be more excited for the Olympics to finally be here! The olympics have always been a huge thing for me! When I was younger I secretly wanted to be a speed skater, or a cyclist in the summer games. Now you know one of my childhood secrets, haha! This year some of my friends and I headed out to one of our favourite local pubs, dressed in our Olympic/Canadian gear to celebrate! We watched as Jennifer Heil win a SILVER in the Women's Mogul's! We also saw the Women's Hockey team win 18 - zip! Go Canada!

While watching the opening ceremonies I was so inspired, that I had to created some Vancouver 2010 Olympic cupcakes. Super fun to make and I think everyone really enjoyed eating them! Just another way to show support to our Canadian athletes!

Clearly we need a cow bell to celebrate, you always need more cowbell!

Go Cananda!

CTV Correspondent, Chuck the Canuck!

Those are long-johns people, complete with bum flap!

Happy to be eating Olympic cupcakes! Direct quote from Cody "this is the best cupcake I have ever ate! Best one yet!"

And he would know he's tried a few, thanks Cody!

I know the rings don't overlap but, they were really small and I wanted to be able to see all the colours! You get the idea!

Miga!

Gold Canada Gold!

Inukshuk!

They were soooooo much fun to make and I'm very happy with the way they turned out.

More medals to come for Canada, only on day 4!

Cheers!

Monday, February 8, 2010

Back to the Future!

This past weekend I attended a birthday bash, with an amazing theme! It was a 1985 party! I myself was born this year, and I have to say it was a very clever theme for celebrating 25 years of you. I just might have to steal it.......anyways, there was a hitch to this party you had to dress in 80's attire. Personally I had no objections, I'm not ashamed to say it the 80's is one of my favourite decades! You might be asking, "Why?!" Well first of all some of my favourite people were born, many wonderful movies came out like Back To The Future(always had a crush the MJ Fox), Goonies, Flashdance. What else..... Transformers, Rubik Cube, Brick phones, Raspberry Beret, We Built This City, the list goes on and on so many things!

I'll just show you some pictures and don't worry there were cupcakes too. Made by the lovely hostess/birthday gal!

These were the tasty cupcakes! A vegan recipe that was really good, I don't always like vegan cakes but this was nummy. I'll have to get the recipe. You'll notice the one random cupcake in the 5, that was a gift for the birthday girl form my friend Chuck. hehe

I asked what her costume was all about and her response was, "You know when you were little and went to visit your grandma and she always reached into her pocket and pulled out these candies? Thats my costume." My grandpa was the one giving out candies in our family and usually it was Certs.

"Everybody's doin a brand new dance now....." The building was very fitting, didn't even have to decorate!

Excellent costumes!

We went a s Tetris Blocks, thats right!

Thats all for now kid's. Check back soon for Valentine's Day and 2010 Olympic cupcakes! GOLD CANADA GOLD!

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Cupcakes here, there, EVERYWHERE!

So today I was going to attempt to take down all my Christmas decorations, but.......I got distracted by cupcakes!! I noticed all around my house there's cupcake this and cupcake that. I busted out my camera and started taking photos of everything! So I thought maybe, just maybe you would like to see few of my favourite cupcake things. As I said, this is just a few things, and I'm not a cupcake hoarder or anything. I don't need a intervention! I just like being surrounded by things I enjoy and that make me happy!!! Plus, the majority of these were gifts.....honestly! Let's start off with some seasonal decor.

For two years now I have only had this one Christmas decoration, besides my little 3 foot tree until......

NOW!!! Santa gave me this little guy, THIS year! How did he know it was just what my tree needed!?

These are a couple of my cupcake books I have bought over the years or received as gifts for different occasions. There are a couple that I haven't even cracked open yet......one day I will.

These were the first cupcake themed anything I ever bought. I thought they were too cute not to purchase! I've never used them, probably never will. They'll just sit pretty on top of the microwave for now.

For those Canadians out there, I'm not sure if you knew but 'Crate&Barrel' has finally made its way to Canada! About two years ago I was in toronto and one had just opened in Yorkville Mall, as soon as I walked in I knew I was home!! My BF Julia pick this little diddy up at the new Calgary store.

Super cute!

So the ladies in my family are quilters, I personally don't think its something I could ever do. Both my Grandma's and my mom sure enjoy it though! I got a table runner(left) for my birthday and a cupcake quilt(right) for Christmas this year. I was really excited to see my logo on there!

Oh those Crafty ladies!

If you have read some of my posts in the past, you may have noticed this logo. Its my favourite graphic-T/everything else they sell store. The brand is Johnny Cupcakes , click the name and check em' out! By far Johnny comes up with the most unique ideas and even pays tribute to classic 80's & 90's films that I grew up watching.

Brilliant!

I named my trusty Kitchen Aid Johnny, and them plastered this gorgeous sticker on him!

Unfortunately for a Canadian girl like me, you can only order online. But this means that I won't likely see my neighbour wearing the same shirt as me......ever!

And I like it that way.

Hope you enjoyed your visit, I'm sure I'll have more to show you one day!

Cheers!

Friday, January 1, 2010

Cupcakes take the Cake!

Check out Cuppitycake Cupcakery on the #1 cupcake blog!! What a great way to start off the new year!

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Christmas Vacation!

So you may or may not known the shop has been closed for a few weeks now. But this was to only serve you better! We took some time to create new flavours, fine tune some old favourites and well..... just play in the kitchen! I took a trip out to Omaha, NE. I bet your asking why would you go to Omaha?? Its a valid question at that, and the reason was to visit my dear friend Kate, stalk up on some supplies and to just go on vacation!! While I was there I met some wonderful people, with all kinds of talents! I even did some baking with three lovely ladies Julia, Jennifer & Christine. Who deffinatley know their way around a kitchen! We all picked a recipe to bake/create and of course eat. Julia and I choose to make butter tarts. To our surprise, our American friends had never heard butter tarts, let alone ate them before. Jennifer decided to make carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.....droooooool. And probably my favourite thing we made was Christines contribution! She introduced us to CRACK BALLS (aka Oreo truffles). You can find he recipe on Bakerella, they are amazing! You must try them out right away, they are too delicious and easy to make!!!!

Enough typing lets see the pictures!

Cuppitycakes went international this holiday season!

Mini butter tarts! We had to cut out the shells, and they were so cute. For some reason Omaha doesn't sell tart shells in their grocery stores. Probably why they had never has butter tarts...

Crack Balls! So good, but soooooo bad

Who needs wire racks when you bake in the winter, haha

Thank you Reynolds for creating Slow Cooker Liners, and finding your way into Christine's shopping cart. I will remember this if I ever run out of pastry bags.

Christine brought out the big guns! Once we figured out this contraption, it made....well interesting patterns....

Cupcakes Complete!

Happy customer!

One afternoon we took a break from shopping and headed over to Cupcake Island, the only cupcakes shop out there!

Julia was enjoying her Candy Cane cupcake.

Kate tried out Ed's Chocolate Raspberry

Mmm mmm good!

We also checked out Yesterday and Today a Beatles show. It was amazing, both times we went! If your in the area check it out!

The men that make the show happen!

And the absolute worst part of traveling?! Trying to pack up everything you brought with you, not to mention everything you purchased.....sigh

Great trip, thanks to everyone who put up with Julia and I, we owe ya!

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Halloween Madness

Sooooo I'm a little late getting this posted....let's just say I wanted to keep you in suspense! This Halloween was complete madness! And I loved every minute of it!! Besides juggling orders I had two costumes to create. I also attended my dear friends party, and took some bakes treats with me. We had the annual costume contest at the office, and there were some good ones this year. As promised I will be posting pictures, but first lets talk about cupcakes. The Halloween orders this year consisted of spooky cut outs(which are more cute then scary), superheroes, Transformers and lots of purple, orange and greeeeeeen frosting.

Thanks everyone for your orders and ideas!

Wilton came up with this little creation, I really like using cupcake wrappers. But where I live in Canada they are not easily accessible.

Fans of Cuppitycakes suggested making Candy Corn Cupcakes, orange and yellow layers of cake topped with classic white buttercream.

Thanks guys!

These bones were too cute not to purchase, and everyone likes a bubble gum eyeball

I topped my Pumpkin spice cupcakes with a marshmallow fondant candy corn.

I raided Michael's again this years for Halloween goodies to top my cupcakes and found skull candy molds! They were so cool, and I hope I get to use them again before next halloween!