Halloween Cupcake Stand :)

I've got to say, this is the most exciting post I've ever done! Today was Homecoming at our church(our church's anniversary!). We always have a big potluck dinner after services. This year, we were asked to bring a meat dish, veggie and dessert. As always, I was so excited about the dessert. I had picked up a cake mix at the store with the orange & black confetti in the batter and couldn't wait to use it so I decided to make cupcakes with it! Exciting, right? but that's not the best
part.

I've been following Stephanie @ SweetCreationsByStephanie for about a month now! She is so talented! I came across her tutorial for a cupcake stand a few weeks ago and knew from the moment i saw it I had to make one. Now, I, myself am not that crafty but my husband on the other hand is the most craftiest(is that a word?) man you could ever meet. Name something and he can build/make it! So since I had decided on making the cupcakes for our dessert, I showed him the cupcake stand Stephanie had made and asked him if he would help me build it! To my suprise he was like, sure! You see, he'd rather build things with his welder or take apart our rhino(4 wheeling golf cart thing) but he said yes. So ALL DAY yesterday we built this darling(if i might say so myself) cupcake stand. It was a HUGE hit at church! So thank you Stephanie for the tips on how to make it, and thanks to my hubby of (1 year exactly TODAY!) for helping me! Now for the fun part! Here are the pictures of it. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to take any picture with the cupcakes on it. I could have cried when I realized that after it was all done. I made confetti orange and black cupcakes with chocolate icing and black and orange sprinkles with black, orange, and green cupcake holders that said boo. It was so cute! I'll check with everyone at church to see if anyone took a picture and i'll post it later if they did. enjoy and have a great week!





















Ps. I had to add a picture of my cute leopard print glue gun ;)

GOOOO Rangers!

I just wanted to post a quick blog to say I'm so proud of my Texas Rangers! We FINALLY made it to the WORLD SERIES!!!! GOOOOO RANGERS!!!!


I've got my antlers up! How about you? ;)

Royal Icing

Hi there y'all!

I'm on a mission to find a Royal Icing recipe that will work for me! I've tried several and it seems like it's either too thick or too thin and it's very frustrating! I follow so many cookie decorators on blogger that are so talented and seem to have it down to a tee! If any of you wonderful bloggers would like to share your recipe with me. Please leave a comment below! Thank you so much.

As for baking, in the past few weeks I've baked pumpkin bread, and cake pops! I made some really cute pumpkin bread mini loaves using a decorative pan my parents bought me from walmart. It's better homes and gardens and it is just down right adorable. I totally forgot to take a picture of the finished product, though :(

Next up, I hosted bunco this month at my house and was so busy getting ready for it, i forgot to take a picture of my darlin' cake pops when they were finished(all of them together) but I did run and snap the last few so y'all could see!






I coated them with Wilton Orange melts and bakers chocolate and then dipped them in some halloween sprinkles :) They were a hit!

Hope everyone is having and Oooberly awesome October!

Candy Melts vs. Baker's chocolate

So I have a question for all you baker's out there!!!

This past weekend I was making Cakeballs for my kids in Children's church and I've always used baker's chocolate to dip them in. Baker's is much smoother and easier to work with than wilton's candy melts--which i have used in the past and I used for some of the cake balls this weekend before changing to baker's. The question I have is..baker's chocolate like this picture below. does it come in different colors besides white and black?



or is there a technique or ingredient that I could add to the wilton melts to make them more flexible and smooth like the baker's chocolate?


If you have an idea, please leave me a comment below!
Thanks and have a wonderful week :)

Wilton: Beginners Class; Course 3

This class we learned how to pipe leaves, drop flowers, dots, and zig zag lines. Like I said we were behind from the class before, but that's ok we acutally had time to play this class :) Here's a picture of my cupcakes, that I decorated this class!


I forgot to mention. We also learned how to pipe mums. I'm not a fan of mums, I think they look kind of silly. For the the cupcakes that have green, yellow and blue i just mixed a little of each color in my piping bag and I just love the way they turned out :) I also used Duff(from Ace of Cakes) food coloring for the vibrant blue color!

Course 1

Here are the pictures from course 1 class 2. We were taught how to ice a cake. It's a lot harder then it seems. Our instructor is a little new at what she does, and she likes to talk, alot. So, needless to say every week we're behind and have to carry over to the next class the things we were suppose to learn in the class before. Over all we are learning new things and I'm so excited to practice and carry on to the next class :)




not bad for my first time icing a cake!


The inside of the cake. I just colored the buttercream brown for the inside.



The cake tasted great. I'm going to keep practicing and hopefully get better and better!

Wilton Decorating Basics.

So I'm sure from the title of this blog post, you can gather that I'm taking the wilton decorating class. I'm taking it with my Momma, sister & Nanny! What better way then to take a class learning to better what you love doing, with the people you love. I'm so excited to learn more about decorating and baking.

Our first class went great. Our teacher is a little talkative, which is good but we ran out of time and didn't get to decorate our cookies. I'm looking forward to next class where we will actually get to decorate a cake! Have any of you ever taken any of the Wilton classes? I'd love to hear feedback, if you have!

That's really all the post is about and one more thing. If you wouldn't mind saying a prayer for my daddy, it would be greatly appreciated! He has a nodule on his lungs(they think)(went in for a ct scan today) and we're waiting for the results to see what they want to do about it. We serve an awesome healing God and I know that he will take care of my daddy, so please just lift him up in prayer!

thanks y'all
:)