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…=)

Catching Up

So it’s been pretty much more than a whole year since i’ve posted anything and quite frankly it’s because I hate how this blogsite is laid out! It’s hard to post any updates and just lay it out nicely. So i’ve actually made a facebook page where i’ve been keeping everyone up to date with what’s going on, but just to keep this blog alive here is what i’ve been upto!

 

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.

 

❤

 

Lots of Good Stuff <3

Merry Be-lated Christmas Everyone!!

It’s been crazy busy on my end for the holidays, been baking lots of treats and cooking lots of food to share with my friends and family!

 

Take  a look =D

 

Cookies in a Jar

First of all, for a select few I made cookies in a jar. I layered a bunch of ingredients and all you need to add is the wet stuff, like butter, eggs and vanilla.

I even made labels for them

 

cute labels

Next, I spent like…probably 50 bucks these past few weeks on pecans alone! To make what you may ask?

Well Pecan Tarts of course!!

 

 

Pecan Tarts, all toasty and yummy

 

I ended up making a WHOLE LOTTA pecan tarts because my mom and my auntie fell in love with them. So I ended up making a double batch within the same week.

=)

 

 

ooOOOooo layers...

 

Also for this years treat bags, which I literally made the day of i was going to go to work and hand them out, I made some cookies and pecan tarts.

I went more for quality than quantity this year.

 

Treat Bags

The cookies I made for the treat bags were chocolate chip toffee and ginger molasses. They were super yummy, especially from right out of the oven ❤

I mean…LOOK at that!

 

Chocolate Chip Toffee Cookies

 

Ginger Molasses Cookie

Aaaand I think that was it…

OH, i forgot to mention that for christmas I got a KitchenAid mixer, which I am very excited about!

So, Ithink I may try making something tomorrow just to use it 😀

 

Anyways, Happy Holidays Everyone!

 

 

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 😀

 

Treats, No Tricks!

I’ve been waiting to do this for a couple weeks now and I FINALLY got to do it! Caramel Apples for HALLOWEEN!

Granny Smith Apples

 

I made regular caramel as well as chocolate caramel apples, with various toppings: peanuts, m&ms, rice krispies, chocolate chips, mini marshmallows! I could have gone craaaaaaazy, but this was really messy and I didn’t have a whole lot of time.

 

Caramel Apples!

YUMMY

 

Doesn’t that look goooooooooood? I couldn’t get a good shot of them all wrapped up with bows but they are so cute! I could totally start selling these right from my doorstep =D

Thanksgiving/Autumn Fest

Sooooo this is way over due! I’ve been SO busy I haven’t had time to post new pics up, but I assure you I have been baking! Here’s proof =D

 

Sugar Cookies

 

Sprinkly Sugar Cookies!

Don’t sprinkles just make everything more exciting?!

As dorky as this next photo will be I feel like I must share this with you! Recently I have discovered a place called the Bulk Barn….where they sell everything in bulk. Of course, they have a whole section of SPRINKLES! So I went a little crazy….and well….just look.

 

Box 1 of 2 filled with sprinkles 😀

OMG it’s Easter Time!

OMG it’s been forever since i’ve baked cupcakes, almost a WHOLE month! It’s almost Easter now though and I have so many ideas going through my head that I just need to bring them to life! SO GET READY!

Here’s what I got so far…

Chocolate Cupcakes

Alrighty…so what I had planned did not go well. I wanted to make kind of like kinder surprise chocolate, but with cute lil easter chocolates inside, buuuuut they didn’t turn out smooth and fit together properly so, that was a no go. Instead I made chocolate flowers to go on the cupcakes =)

Easter Flower Cupcakes

When you stuff them all into a container they look like a super bright flower field of cake and sugar! ❤

Easter Basket Cupcake

This is another cupcake I made with the same chocolatecupcake recipe. It’s an easter basket with marshmallow frosting. It was yummy but it didn’t excite me very much visually. so i didn’t want to make anymore.

Anyways, HAPPY EASTER!

V-Day Madness

Happy Valentine’s Day/ Single Awareness Day!!! ❤

Holy crap have I been a busy girl!

I baked 3 days in a row, for my brother’s Valentine’s Day party at his school, for my peeps at work, and for my friend who really had a craving for brownies lol

So here we go!

My little brother requested cupcakes for his school party, so I decided to make…

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Mini Pink Lemonade Cupcakes =D

Pink Lemonade Cupcakes

It’s basically a lemon cake with pink lemon butter cream frosting.

Very sweet and refreshing =)

I piped the frosting into roses and then tinted the frosting into different shades of pink to look more like a bouquet =)

Next, I started work on some Heart-Shaped Sugar Cookies with a Jolly Rancher Center.

They didn’t turn out exactly how I wanted them too buuuuut they are still pretty to look at!

Heart-Shaped Sugar Cookies with a Jolly Rancher Center