For my good friend’s bridal shower I decided to make these elegant cupcakes with a fun Wall-E topper. Both my friend and I have a strong affection for the movie Wall-E so I knew she would love this custom topper. Both Wall-E and Eve were hand molded out of fondant and then an airbrush [...]

      
A friend of mine moved to DC this summer so I brought her these cupcakes as a housewarming gift. The cake flavor is one I invented called the “Witch’s Brew”. Years ago when we both worked at Dunkin Donuts we used to serve a drink called the Witch’s Brew during the fall. The [...]

  
I made these cupcakes for a co-worker of mine who was having a graduation party for her son. His school colors were red and black so I decorated a cupcake stand with construction paper to match. I made two kinds of cupcakes: Boston cream (yellow cake, pastry cream filling, chocolate ganache frosting) and chocolate [...]

More experiments with cupcake decorations. The chocolate cupcakes were topped with cream cheese frosting applied using a pastry bag. I make some fondant cutouts to put on top. The vanilla cupcakes were also frosted using a pastry bag and a combination of silver dragees and royal icing flowers were used as decoration. 

I had recently jumped on the cupcake bandwagon and I wanted to explore the many ways you can “dress up” a cupcake. I thought adding these pretty royal icing flowers as toppers to the cupcakes was a really nice touch. I used a piping bag to swirl on the frosting which makes them look neater [...]

I was trying a few different techniques to decorate cupcakes and I tried one method called “cornelli lace”. It’s basically a random zigzagging pattern that never crosses it’s own path and the final look is pretty unique. This had to be done on a cupcake that is frosted smooth.