and from the leftovers rose . . .

More Sugar! After Monday’s project of creating frosted furniture there was a great deal of batter, blanks and frosting left over. There were so many bowls of frosting and the cupcakes that were calling for a sweet topping. So I thought it the right thing to give full life to those miniature cupcakes. I used the leftover, already colored frosting, pulled out my favorite wide flower tip and set about decorating the little yummies. Color by color I filled the bag over and over and made a little sugar flower garden. These pictures are of them put into Tupperware (glass Pyrex really) to take into my last day of class with my after school JR High kids. I was so exited to show them the artistic possibilities and talk to them about color mixing. Unfortunately, it being the last day of class, they ripped the lids off and devoured the little sugar yums without noticing the colors or the flavor and with too few thank yous over their shoulders, they ran off to meet their buses for the ride home. I will take it as a compliment that the cupcakes were so tasty the kids were speechless.

I heart cupcakes

A counter top filled with cupcake blanks

Vanilla cake and vanilla frosting with pink sprinkles

The orange and green topped cakes

The light orange and dark green topped cakes

Pinks, oranges and a few greens . . . mmmmmm

More Pinks and Oranges

The Short ones contribution to the project (she ate this one)

December 18, 2009labfive Leave a comment

It started as Mid-Century Mod . . .

So the day started out with baking of cupcake and cookie “blanks” to build the sugar fun. We decided it would be a mid-century modern house of a Hollywood producer with a dog named Princess. We were thinking 60’s party scene with cocktails, a turn-table, records and so on. Once the cutting of the shapes and the frosting began the look kind of quickly turned a bit more Flintstones. We had a lot of fun though! What a great holiday baking day!

Cupcake / cookie living room

The set up

Pretty mid-century colors

Attempt at the cupcake version of a mid-century marshmallow sofa, a white faux fur rug and mushroom side table with red vase

Kitchen of the home with aqua table

Aqua table top with starburst bowl filled with "candy" apples and "mike and ike" cocktail glasses

Close up of princess the family poodle on her dog bed

December 15, 2009labfive Leave a comment

Boxes of goodies are the new Xmas stockings

Think of the box as the new stocking! I made these this past month – all are round boxes with pillow top “heads”. They are available at MADE downtown Phoenix. They were so much fun to make. I wanted to make many more but had to stop. Once this group is sold I will make more – also I am always open to custom!