October Cupcakes

I had a very busy October ... but still managed to make a few dozen cupcakes and experiement with my newest project ... cake balls!

Pumpkin Chocolate Cupcakes before poppin' 'em in the oven

Pumpkin Chocolate yummy goodness after :)

Pumpkin Chocolate Cakeballs rolled in oreo crumbs, cocoa powder, coconut, sprinkles.

 Judy's Red Velvet Birthday Cupcakes <3

Golden Cookie Cupcakes for Noah's Baptism

 Cookies & Cream Cupcakes for Noah's Baptism

Pumpkin Chocolate Cupcakes for Noah's Baptism

Edible Tasty Prints

Just noticed that Edible Tasty Prints posted my AOK cupcakes on their website... woot!

AOK CUPCAKES!

I needed a fun and unique way to decorate AOK's cupcakes ... so I decided on edible prints and I found 'Edible Tasty Prints'. They are located in Tustin and have a super quick turn around time. They are super affordable and awesome!!!

www.edibletastyprints.com

Chocolate Tomato Cake with Strawberry Tomato Glaze

Yes, you read right ... a chocolate tomato cake with a strawberry tomato glaze.



Last Sunday, the Sur family had a 'Tomato Cook-Off' where we had to create appetizers, entrees, and a dessert using tomatoes. I came up with a chocolate tomato cake with a strawberry tomato glaze ... and boy was it yummy!

The pureed tomato in the cake actually made the cake a lot more moist and gave it a nice flavor ... not really a tomato-ey flavor, but a hint of flavor that was kinda indescribable but obviously there ... and it was a yummy flavor! As for the glaze ... the glaze had a very sweet, strawberry flavor with that kick of tomato. Oh it was so sweet and delish!

It felt like a chocolate-y type of day ...

I embarked on a afternoon of chocolate-y goodness. I baked a batch of Roger's fave ... cookies and cream cupcakes. Switched out the usual calling for canola oil with apple sauce. (I scored a huge jar of Mott's apple sauce in the clearance section at Albertson's). Cupcakes came out a lot more moist...I will probably make that a permanent switcheroo.
All deco-ed out with a schmear of vanilla icing and then covered with oreo crumbs.
Below are my trial run of chocolate mint cupcakes. I made the mint icing from scratch ... looks white in the picture ... it's actually a very light, minty green :) These came out a lot better than expected and will definitely add to my fave cupcake recipes.

Cupcake Pictures

Here are a few random snapshots I took with my phone throughout the past year.

Frostings opened up close to work and I decided to drop by. I had their coconut chocolate cupcake. Their cupcakes are huge and decorated beautifully!


Crumbs is one of my favorites. I love how they decorate their cupcakes, and I love their unique flavors and names. My favorites are their cookies & cream, red velvet, half baked, and twinkie. Too bad the closest one to me is in Beverly Hills ... so I always make a stop whenever i'm in the area.


Here are a few cupcakes I made for a garage sale last year. I made yellow cake with chocolate frosting and coconut shreds and cookies and cream cupcakes. I sold them for a quarter each and sold a few.

Cupcake Camp OC

So I didn't notice that I actually never posted this ... was sitting as a draft ... haha.

On August 1st, Roger, my little brother Griffin and I went to Cupcake Camp OC at the Atrium hotel in Irvine. There were cupcakes and cupcake enthusiasts EVERYWHERE! Even though the event was a little bit unorganized, Cupcake Camp OC was able to raise $9100 for El Pozo. Over 1,000 people attended, and there were over 5,200 cupcakes! Best of all, I won the cupcake eating contest :D

Cupcake Camp OC Website

Ya ... I finished 23 mini cupcakes in about 2 minutes against 7 other people. T'was an experience ... but I felt like crap afterwards :-/ But I did win a bottle of wine and a few minutes of fame in front of hundreds of people :)

Mentioned on She's Cookin' blog.

Check out video and pictures from Cupcake Activist

Jessica's 6th Birthday!

Here are a few pictures of the cupcakes I made for my younger cousin's 6th birthday in January.