My Bad…I Forgot!

So my bad. I started a facebook page for The Sweet Life and I completely forgot about my first born: this blog haha.

Like I said in a previous post, I dislike how difficult it is to post on this blog while on facebook it takes me 2 seconds to upload pictures from my phone! I still cant bring myself to get rid of this though so I will try harder to post more or atleast do a monthly update? Maybe that would be easier haha.

Anyways, heres what ive been
upto!

Mini Angel Berry Triffles for a Christmas Party

Red Velvet Cream Cheese Frosting Cupcakes for Valentine’s Day

S’more Cake Brownies

Sea-Salted Caramel Cupcakes – Fishing Themed

Thats it for now, hopefully i’ll remember to post in April haha. I am planning an easter dessert table so I should have much to say about that whole process!!

Until then…=)

1st Birthday Sweet Shop Guest Table

Hello Everyone! Today was an amazing and exciting day! it was my nieces very first birthday party and I was lucky enough to be able to make a guest table for them. The theme was “Rayna & Rylan’s Sweet Shop” and here are some pictures of some of the prep work I did the other day, as well as the finished product itself! Hope you enjoy!

Label Making!

First off I made some labels of everything that was going to be on the table! Can you believe my cousin and I decided on 16 different sugary filled treats?? I had the most fun making these cute little cards and making little bows.

mock setup

Next was figuring out what plates and jars to use and where they would go.

Cake Pops!

And then…the cake pops! These were my best batch ever I think! I added orange food coloring to make it look more vibrant and fun =)

more cake pops!

Mmm Marshmallows...

Oh and THEN I saw a picture of these online and it was so simple and fun I just had to make some for the party!

Candy Jars

I think the labels for the jars were my favorite!

Finished Product!

FINALLY! The table was set up, minus the cupcakes that hadn’t yet arrived. ( I didn’t make the cupcakes or the little cakes for them, we had them ordered because I didn’t have time to make anymore lol). I was so please the table was big enough! There was sooo much candy on that table! Unfortunately the lighting in the room was awful and the room was small so this was the best shot I could take of the entire thing. I’m hoping my cousin managed to get a better picture than I did!

EVERYTHING!

Here’s a picture of absolutely EVERYTHING on the table, cupcakes, cakes, cookies, cake pops, candies and more!

Cake Time!!!

Here are my niece’s with their beautiful cakes! Happy first birthday and I can’t wait until next year when we get to do this all over again but bigger and better!

Bridal Shower, Anniversaries and More!

To jump right in, i’ve been really busy lately but I have still been baking a couple things here and there. 

Most recently is a friend’s friend’s bridal shower party. She requested a white and purple theme with vanilla and chocolate cupcakes. So here’s how they turned out!

Bridal Shower Cupcakes

 

They are actually more purple in real life than it shows on camera, but oh well. I think they turned out beautifully!

vanilla

 

chocolate

 

The next project I did was for my mom and dad’s 25th anniversary. I made them lemon cupcakes with powdered sugar and orange stars. I call them my lemon dream cupcakes ❤

 

lemon dream tower!

 

close up!

 

And then lastly, I made myself a banana cream pie…just because I was craving some! haha

 

Banana Cream Pie ❤

Whoops, this is late

Omgoodess! It’s been so long since i’ve posted anything.  Since before the new year!!

I assure you that I have been baking.

 

Here is proof!

 

Sour Cream Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate frosting

I made these for my friend’s baby shower, the same preggo lady I made the alphabet cupcakes for =D

She gets two baby showers because she’s special like that!

 

A Close Up

 

Egg-Less Brownies for Kobek

This was hard to find, a good egg-less brownie recipe but I DID IT and they were actually very good.

Can’t replace a regular brownie recipe with eggs but it’ll do!

Valentine's Day/Goodbye Cupcakes =D

I made these for my peeps at work. I recently quit so this was my last batch of goodies I baked for them. It was right before Valentine’s day too so that’s why there are hearts and “XOX”s .  These are birthday cake cupcakes with caramel frosting.

 

❤

 

Happy December!!

It’s that wonderful time of the year when wintertime doesn’t seem so bad, I’m talkin’ about CHRISTMAS!

Well it’s not Christmas yet, but i’m ready for it. I got my tree up already and I started off the month with some wintery cupcakes, although technically I made them in November…..anyways. Look!

 

 

Buttermilk Cupcakes with Vanilla Frosting and Chocolate BOWS!

I made these for school, a supervisor-luncheon thing actually. I dunno if everybody knows, but I am starting my practicum with Absolute Interiors in January 2011! How exciting is that?? I will be working on a lottery show home located in Windemere which is even more exciting and I hope when it is completed that my friends will come and look!

Anyways, back to the cupcakes. The luncheon was just a get together for supervisors and practicum students, where we discussed the practicum criteria and such. It was a great networking opportunity and therefore I of course offered my cupcake services but I didn’t make nearly enough =(

Sorry to people who didn’t get one!

 

oooo sparkly…

I know our parents and teachers always told us in elementary not to eat sparkles, but in this case…YOU CAN!!!

 

Look forward to more exciting treats this holiday 😀

 

Manna’s Baby Shower =)

Hello all! So my fabulous friend Manna is gonna have a baby boy and for her baby shower she surprisingly asked me to cater for her!

I was very excited!

We didn’t really discuss any specific details, only that her mom and her were having an ABC’s and 123’s theme in blue, yellow, and red. Therefore the goodies should match =D

 

Here we have Marbled Cupcakes with White Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. I must say the frosting turned out beautifully! Super white-chocolatey!

 

Cupcakes!

Here’s an image of the actual marbled cupcakes, you can’t see the pretty swirls underneath the yummy buttercream frosting lol

 

Marbled cupcakes

Next we have the cookies, which basically look like cookies, but Manna’s mum wanted writing on them. On the left are peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips and on the right are my awesomely awesome chocolate chip cookies!

 

C is for COOKIE and that’s good enough for me =D

Lovely isn’t it?

It definitely took me time to do this one because I wanted them to be super fresh for Manna’s baby shower. So I woke up at 8:30am and finished these at 1:30pm just in time to get ready for work =D

W00t!

Anyways, here is what the final product looked like…..

Ta-Da!

I hope to hear from Manna soon and see pictures of the whole event!

5-stars for cupcakes!

This is kind of overdue buuuut it was my birthday about 2 weeks ago and I made these lovely chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting and golden stars!

5 stars!

Aren’t they BEAUTIFUL??!! I used edible gold dust to paint the chocolate stars, i thought they came out super cool, kinda cowboyish looking?

Here’s a close up….

OooOOooo....

Anyways, unfortunately I haven’t had much time to bake lately =(  But I would really like to make a carrot cake next so hopefully I can schedule some time in to make that…with cream cheese frosting…and some kinda carrot thing on top for decoration….I dunno…

Express-oh!

A couple weeks ago I made some mocha cupcakes…that pretty much says it all! lol

Mocha Cupcakes

This lovely cupcake was topped with a coffee meringue frosting and a chocolate covered expresso bean for an extra kick of happy =D

This was the first time I made and tried a meringue frosting and I must say I didn’t enjoy it as much as my usual buttercream frostings. This was a lot harder to make because I couldn’t get the proper consistency I wanted, therefore it turned out to be really creamy. Oh well! It was still some gooood stuffs =)

Updates and Pics

Here are some extra pictures I forgot to post from the baby shower =D

Unbaked Gingerbread Cookie

Unbaked Sugar Cookies

Loads of cookies, some are fully decorated and some are waiting!

Loads of Cake Pops in White and Green

Cake Pops

A lot of Cupcakes

Alrighty, so those are the other pictures from the baby shower =D The next image are of mini cupcakes made for my brother’s last day of school party. Nothing fancy but I thought they were still cute enough to share lol

The Bunch

Mini Vanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting and Sprinkles

And now finally, my biggest update news….

I’m in the process of making business cards! =O

I’d like to start catering for small parties or just for individual consumption lol. If it gets requested enough I might start doing desert tables and event planning (when it comes to food)  just like my cousin’s baby shower.

So, with that said, my blog in the next couple of weeks will have some added tabs that will include a menu and ordering details. SIf you already know me then you will for sure be hearing updates from me! =D

Project Cute Chickies

So Hello cyber universe! If you didn’t know, the What’s New Cupcake? book just came out at the end of March. And on the cover is a picture of the cutest rubber ducky cupcakes i have EVER seen!!! I was so excited to try them out, but unfortunately project rubber ducky did not turn out well. I think it is just because I didn’t have enough frosting and i didn’t spread the frosting smooth enough.

So what i ended up with was more a cute chickie than a duck! Either way it’s cute, and i’ll try again to make duckies next time!

Cute Chicks