A 2 for 1 cupcake

I found this recipe for a great, little, tasty coffee doughnut cupcake. The recipe is pretty basic, although there was some eyebrow raising at the suggestion of coffee grounds, but threw them in anyways just for kicks and surprisingly it turned out great. The recipe called for whipped cream, but that lasts for about five minutes and not so stable for transporting. I've become a little obsessed with cinnamon lately so came up with a cinnamon buttercream that is pretty yummy to use instead. Now the best part is the mini doughnut. Really the cupcake just acts as a holding device for said doughnut, a means to transport it from the table to your mouth. Tiny little doughnuts cut out and deep fried then rolled in a cinnamon sugar. The only thing I learned is that you can't leave them out overnight as they tend to loose their moisture fairly quickly (that means they dry out and get hard), but really why leave out doughnut cupcakes when they are just begging to be eaten?.

summer wedding cakes

This summer I decorated a bunch of cakes used as the centerpieces for my friend's wedding. The first one took forever, but after I clued in and came up with a game plan I whipped off the rest in no time and had so much fun. I had complete creative freedom, just stuck with the wedding colours, black, white and yellow (although at some point I ran out of ideas and needed a new colour so threw purple into the mix). If you check out the slide show you can see the rest of them, I think there were nine or ten in total. They were all little six inch cakes, so cute and the perfect amount of cake for each table, although I think we might have stolen another cake off of another table at one point, can't quite remember...