Juicy Fruit!

This summer my friend Stephanie and I are leading a Jr. High Girl's Bible Study called Juicy Fruit. Tonight is our first get together and so I made some extra girly cupcakes. Wish me luck!!

 

WORLD OF COLOR

I've been following Disney's latest project World of Color for about 2 years now. Every day I've read updates from Disney's blog that have raved and built up SOO much hype about this show. Yesterday was the big day and I went in with VERY high expectations. I was blown out of the water (hehe pun intended). The descriptions, videos and images can not come close to comparing how magical and sheerly amazing this show this.
I'm in the process of putting our pictures and videos from the day together and will post a whole big update once I get a chance but until then, watch this promo video for World of Color released by the DisneyParks Blog I follow.
We had an incredible time to say the least!

Disneyland Video...from February

Well tomorrow is the big Disney day and I when I got my video camera out to charge it up I remembered, I still have video from Chris' birthday in February that I still haven't done anything wit Enjoy!!! Hopefully after tomorrow's trip I won't take several months to post it's video :)

Kim's Baby Shower

Today was the shower and the cupcakes were a hit!

For all the photos of the baby shower cupcakes click HERE!
The recipe can be found by clicking my cookbook link on the left toolbar or right HERE!

Blue Velvet Baby Shower Cupcakes

My best friend Kim is having a baby boy, Morgan Carter Slikker, and he is due July 10th. Tomorrow we're having her shower to celebrate and I was asked to make the cupcakes for the occasion. Kim's favorite is my red velvet cupcakes but that would do the trick for a baby boy: the solution, blue velvet.

After much research I learned that adding a smidgen of violet food coloring would keep the blue food coloring from having an icky green tone (which is apparently quite common with blue food coloring), well it worked! They turned out the perfect deep velvety blue.

They were topped with a baby blue cream cheese frosting and silver glittery bits.

I sure hope they taste as good as they look! My original red velvet recipe came from Paula Dean's cookbook and as I was watching food network while baking guess who comes on TV and makes her red velvet cupcakes! It was so poetic to be cooking along with Paula.

CSUB Graduation Cupcakes

A friend from work asked me to make cupcakes for her husbands graduation. He's graduating from CSUB tomorrow. Congrats and Enjoy!

Memorial Day/ CHS Graduation

For Memorial Day Chris and I made dinner for his Mom and Grandparents. Ribs, Beans, Salad, Garlic Bread... Yummy!!! And for dessert: Strawberry Short Cake!

For my cousin Taylor's High School Graduation from Centennial High School I was in charge of cupcakes. My basic vanilla cupcakes and vanilla frosting. It's hard to tell from the photos but the red frosting was dusted with gold shimmer and edible gold stars. Very fun and festive!

Up next on the baking front: June 10th- 40 cupcakes for a CSUB graduation blue and gold
June 12th- 50 baby shower cupcakes blue velvet with baby blue cream cheese frosting
Stay Tuned!