Learning to Decorate

Earlier this week, I went to an activity where we got to learn some cake decorating techniques and practice with the frosting tips on cupcakes. Here are my attempts with a few of them.

Here's our group's cupcakes, minus the few we'd eaten :)

Jack-O-Lanterns

Isn't it amazing that it's already the end of October??? Seriously though. Crazy! For Halloween, I decided to make... CUPCAKES :) I never really got into the whole carving pumpkins/costumes and whatnot, but I tried to be a little festive with pumpkin cupcakes. They don't taste like pumpkin because I thought that was more for Thanksgiving, but they almost look like them:

And Marcus obviously had some fun decorating the pumpkins too

We have Jack-o-lantern cupcakes!!! Can you guess which one is my favorite???

Do you spy Jack the Pumpkin King? the pumpkin that's a basketball for Halloween? a pig? Ron Weasley? Ha.

Here's my favorite... Obviously :)

And Marcus' favorite. "He says RAWR!!!"

Angry Birds

This month for Third Sunday Dinner, my mom gave me this idea based on America's new favorite past-time...

That's right, Angry Birds. It's definitely taking over EVERYTHING! Good thing it's a fun game :) So we'll take a quick tour through the levels...

Now the blue ones that multiply:

Then my favorite, the ones that accelerate and break through all the wood barriers:

And the mean (and laughing) little piggies:

The whole group that joined us for dessert:

Wise Guys

JUNE 2011

Obviously there would be no holiday unless I made some ridiculous cupcakes. Don't worry, Father's Day was a success! I made Wise Guys for all the wise guys in my family...

Monster Mash

MAY 2011

My cousin Kelsey and I have a joke going that whenever I make treats for our family's Third Sunday Dinner, she actually made them. Sounds lame, but I promise, it's fun for her and me. So this time, "she" made Monster Cupcakes!

This little guy got in trouble for making a mess. (Actually a friend at work wanted to see them, so I saved him one.)

And they all congregated...

For the Monster Mash :)

I won't lie, the cupcakes didn't turn out quite as good as I hoped because I used a different type of recipe. But I think the decorations are still fun ;)

Katz

APRIL 2011

Back in April, we were waiting to hear where Marcus would intern for the summer-- it was an intense time :) We were so excited when CooperKatz offered him an internship in New York City, so we had to have themed cupcakes! (Plus I think at about this time, we adopted our wonderful kitty Chicago.)

Fish

MARCH 2011

More cupcakes-- Dr. Seuss style!

One Fish

Two Fish

Red Fish

Blue Fish

Fishies!!!

The left over M&M's. Just a couple :)

And for the record, I thought they were really good!

Ants

APRIL 2010

Another basic attempt. But this time, there was coconut flavoring involved.

... and ANTS! :) We had a whole colony of them. Haha.

They were actually pretty good. (This was the beginning of the Staklands being my taste-testers. If I remember right, they approved!)