Sandal Cake

This is perhaps the first cake I ever made. I got the recipe out of a magazine that has by now been lost to me...It was for an old high school friend's birthday. The cake has pudding in it which makes it extremely moist and tasty. After this, I put pudding in every cake I make. The stripes and thong part of the sandals are made with sour ribbons.

Sunflower Supra...

For my grandmother's birthday last year, I made her these sunflower cupcakes. Another recipe from Hello, Cupcake!, they have an Oreo cookie for a center and M&Ms for ladybugs.



The petals are make with colored frosting piped on through a leaf-tip frosting applicator...or whatever the correct term is. The grass is made with a different tip that has a bunch of holes it it. (I wish I knew some correct terminology here....Be glad I'm not your brain surgeon.)



These cupcakes are a little special to me because I made them for my grandmother's last birthday. A few months after this, she passed away. I think I get some of my cooking skills from her...she was a wonderful Jewish cook and made everything from matzo ball soup to noodle coogle to, of course, cakes. Of course, she loved everything I made. Rest in Peace Grandma Marion.

A Whole Lotta Spaghetti

I made these cupcakes for an end of the year performance in my high school creative writing class. As I walked through the halls with them that morning, everyone I came into contact with was wondering why the heck I brought pasta to eat in the morning. Most of the kids in my class were completely grossed out by them and didn't know what to think, but they were ALL gone by the end of the performance. The recipe if from Hello, Cupcake!. The noodles are just stribbles of white frosting dyed tan with yellow food coloring and coco powder. The meatballs are chocolate-nut balls dipped in strawberry jelly. Eating these cupcakes is really a mind trip - you think you're eating pasta but it's cake. Talk about tastebud overload.

Penguin Cupcakes

I made these cupcakes a few years ago for a friend's graduation party and they were instantly a hit. I got the recipe from Hello, Cupcake!



The cupcakes are white (but now that I think about it, chocolate would look better)and they have a mini doughnut and a doughnut hole glued on top of them with icing. This construction is dipped in chocolate icing dyed black. The wings are made of chocolate cookies and the bellies are marshmallows sliced up. The beaks and feet are made of Starbursts and the eyes are mini chocolate chips.



The icebergs have coconut on top with blue rock candy. The cupcakes were also supposed to have little hard candy fish on them, but I couldn't find them anywhere. If someone discovers any, please let me know.