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.

Baby Shower Cupcakes For Girls

What you will need:
Cupcake Liners
Pastry Pride Whipped Topping
Merengue Powder
Pink food coloring
White fondant
White Sugar Pearl Sprinkles
Cake Mix
1C Wilton tip
Flower Cookie Cutters

How to:
First I get the cake mix ready and fill the cupcake liners a little more than half way. I then put them in the oven and let them bake for about 20-25 minutes.

When they wee done, I let them cool off and begun making the frosting and made the flowers. I mixed the pastry pride whipped topping and merengue powder with an electric mixer. I took some white fondant and made two different shapes of flowers. Then I took some pink food coloring and added it to white fondant and once it was the color I wanted, I made two different shapes of flowers as well. Then with a 1C Wilton tip I took some white frosting and covered half of the cupcakes and the other half with pink frosting. On the pink cupcakes I put a big white flower, a smallers pink flower and a pearl sprinkle on top. On the white cupcakes I put a big pink flower, a small white flower and a pearl sprinkle on top.

 

The end result: