"Mommy, I want butterfly cupcakes"

This past weekend my *almost* 3 year old daughter came up to me in the middle of the day and asked me so politely if I could make her some butterfly cupcakes! The look on her face was so adorable and the way she asked so nicely just made me smile so big. So I decided to make her some since she had asked so very nicely!!!

They were vanilla cupcakes with a creamcheese frosting. I had some jelly beans in the *secret* candy bowl so I used those are the body and the wings I made with melted reeses peanut butter chips, since that's all I had in my cupboard at the time, lol!!!

She was so happy and I love seeing that big smile on her face!!! :0)

Father's Day Frame Idea!!!

For Father's Day I found this cute idea on SistersStuff blog page about a father's day frame for dad from the kids! It was such a cute idea I just had to do it!!! This is what it looked like!!!

Super cute huh???
So since we live in Hawaii I decided to tweak the idea a little bit and take the pictures at the beach and use sticks in stead of big cardboard letters since my 6 month old wouldn't have held it up right anyway. Also I have 4 kids and the idea was with 3 kids to spell out DAD. So this is what I did instead!!!

WE <3 YOU DAD

And since we are planning to have one last baby in the future, when there are 5 kids I will most likely do this idea again for father's day but spell out DADDY!!!! :0)

Dr. Seuss!!!

I really enjoyed making all of these Dr. Seuss themed party treats for a friends sons about a week ago. It was so much fun and the party was so colorfull! Her sons celebrated their 1st and 3rd birthday's together and just the thought of the birthday theme being Dr. Seuss got me all excited!!!

Here are the two cake/cupcakes stands that I made for the party! Tutorial below:

http://annies-eats.net/2010/08/19/how-to-make-a-cupcake-tower/

This cake was chocolate with a raspberry filling and covered with buttercream frosting and white MMF dots. The cupcakes were red velvet with a creamcheese frosting and cotton candy on top!!!

This cake was vanilla with a creamcheese filling and covered with MMF. The cupcakes were vanilla with buttercream frosting and each cupcake was topped with a green egg hand made from modeling chocolate!!!

Here is the "Horton hears a who" cake pop stand that I made for the party as well!!!

The cake pops were red velvet with creamcheese frosting covered with melted white chocolate that was dyed pink!!! :0)

Who loves Angry Birds? My hubby, that's who!!!

For my husbands 23rd birthday I decided to make him an Angry Birds cake since he loves playing Angry Birds all day long, lol!!!  I tried out a new buttercream fondant recipe, which was SO delicious, but unfortunetly it was pretty oily looking. But he loved it anyway, and I guess it's better to make something that looks bad and tastes good than something that looks good but taste bad, lol!!!

We put 5 candles to represent his 23rd birthday! 2 on one side and 3 on the other :0)

Hello Kitty Cake!!!

Here's  a Hello Kitty cake that I made for my daughters friends birthday back in May. It's a vanilla cake with buttercream filling and covered with MMF (Marshmallow Fondant). The Hello Kitty is hand made from modeling chocolate!!! YUM

Natalia's hand and foot print plate!!!

On the day Natalia turned 5 months old I had a last minute idea to do her hand and foot print on a plate. I had recently found a decently sized plain white plate at the thrift store for .50 cents and decided to use that since it would be perfect!!!  I grabbed some left over paint in the closet, from the kids making homecoming signs for their Dad this past November, and went to work!

Getting a 5 month old to cooperate with this part was pretty difficult. I think I had to re-do her hand print 4 or 5 times, lol!

After the hard part was over I wrote her name on the top and the date of her hand and foot print on the bottom!

I put a few other pretty dots and hearts here and there and TA-DA!!!

My older kids wanted to do a hand print plate as well, so as soon as I find 3 more nice plain white plates, I will have them do their's and post it ASAP! :0)

It's been a while!!!

I know I haven't posted anything for a while now, but it's been pretty busy around here lately and I don't expect it to slow down. With the big move coming up in about 2 months it's getting closer and closer to crunch time. Last month we had a lot going on with making cakes, mothers day and my dad coming to visit. This month hasn't slowed down any with fathers day, more cakes and planning both of my daughters birthday parties for July, which I'm totally excited about! Probably more than they are :0)
First let me update my blog with some stuff I had done last month and recently so I can catch up with my page! :0)