Valentine's Day Cupcakes

It has been a while since I've wrote a post on this blog, and I am very glad that I decided to start posting on here again. I had stopped because I got a little discouraged and also I was attending culinary school, working, and being part of a dance company. As you can see life happened, and I just didn't have the time to make posts. I'm happy to announce that I am done with culinary school, and I have learned so much. I am now ready to show you all what I have learned, and show you my creations as well as help you create them. 

Last year for Valentine's Day I decided I wanted to make a little bit of money so I decided to make a flyer, and sell some cupcakes to my friends and family. I thought since it would be Valentine's day, and everyone seems to like my cupcakes I could sell them for less than most cupcakes out there, and get many orders. Well, I may have bit more than I could chew at that time because it was a lot of work and I didn't sell as much as I thought I would. Also, I had so many cupcakes leftover that I had to give some away. Now, you may ask why did I make so many? Why didn't I take orders ahead of time? Well, I did. The problem was that I decided that for each package I would make 6 different flavor cupcakes with 6 different frostings so that each cupcake was different. I only got 5 orders therefore, I had so many cupcakes and not enough orders. It was a good learning experience because I learned that if I want to make that much work for myself I need to be able to get more orders. I still had a lot of fun making them so it was not all for nothing. 

Now that you have read all of my life story, if you want to see the cupcakes that I made and maybe give you an idea for some cupcakes you can make for your sweetie this Valentine's Day then here is a little description of each one and a photo to go along with it.

 Top: Chocolate Chip Cupcake with Chocolate Whipped Topping and Topped with Chocolate Chips, Pink Velvet Cupcake with Whipped Topping and Topped with Pink Pearl Sprinkles, Vanilla Cupcake with Pink Vanilla Buttercream Frosting and Topped with White Pearl Sprinkles
Bottom: Chocolate Cupcake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting and Topped with Red Heart Sprinkles, Red Velvet Cupcake with Cream Cheese Frosting and Topped with Red and White Sprinkles, Cookies and Cream Cupcake with Cookies and Cream Whipped Topping and Topped with an Oreo Cookie

 I put them in a cupcake container with 6 cavities

I wrapped the box with a cute red and white ribbon bow

These are my orders for Valentine's Day and the two red boxes are cookies which will be my next post.

I really hope you liked this post, and continue to read my baking journey.

Heart and Anchor Cake

Materials:
Cake mix
White Fondant
Blue Fondant
Red Fondant
White whipped topping
2 Round Cake pans (Different sizes)
Anchor cut out
Heart Shaped Cookie Cutters (Different Sizes)
Popsicle Sticks

Directions:
Bake cakes according to directions on the cake mix
Cover the larger cake with white frosting or whipped topping
Put two popsicle sticks in the middle and center the smaller cake on top
Frost the top cake
Print out an anchor and cut it out
Place the printing anchor on top of navy blue fondant and cut out the fondant
Take some white fondant and cut out two strips and twist them together
Place the anchor in the middle of the cake 
Add the twisted white fondant and add it around the cake to make it look like a rope
Cut out a couple hearts and place a popsicle stick in the middle of one and with frosting add another heart to the back of it so two are attached together
Add the hearts to the cake, I added two on top two in the middle and two on the bottom
Final Look:

Valentine's Day Flan

Here's a delicious idea to surprise your significant other or someone you love. Its not only a great dessert, but it's also perfect for Valentine's Day or anniversary.

Materials:
Heart pan
Sugar
Royal flan mix

Directions:
Set heart pan aside

Warm up milk 













Remove from heat
Add flan mix to the milk and keep mixing until dissolved













Add 1 scoop of sugar and keep stirring 

Let cool
Add caramel to heart pan
Put flan in heart pan and refrigerate
Final Result: