Car cake for a cute little boy!

Openin Shop?

Currently looking into opening a store front. I have to find the perfect place!

Cupcake Party...Out of Control!

The 1,600 mini cupcakes I made for the "free with admission" went faster than I ever expected! Less than an hour before they were gone! THANK YOU to everyone who showed up, to everyone who still purchased cupcakes when I ran out of minis! I couldn't have asked for much more. I'm sorry for everyone that missed out on the free cupcakes, I really did make as many as I possibly could! I work out of my home & by myself, for those of you who don't know. I have one tiny standard conventional oven. It bakes unevenly, like I'm sure yours does too! So my job is more difficult than it should, so please be understand :) All week I've been working really hard to make this party run smoothly and for the most part I think it went well! Please email me if you have any questions, comments or if you liked the party!

 

 *All photos by the amazing Kimi Seabury

Brownie bite dips

Brownie bites dipped in peanut butter.

More to come..!
Available at the Cupcake Party.
1132 Broadway St. NE
Salem, OR 97301
1pm-4pm
Sun.Feb 13, 2011

Baby cookie sandwiches!

These will be available for sale at the cupcake party on Sunday!

These kind of remind me of Mayor McCheese from the old McDonald's commercials...

A sweet card for your sweetie!

Valentine cards available for sale at the Cupcake Party!
February 13th at Christo's Pizzeria
1132 Broadway St.
Salem, OR 97301
1pm-4pm!

No words can describe...

What?

Cupcake Party: Valentine boxes

Crafty little boxes that hold one standard size cupcake. Available at the cupcake party. $3 for the box & your choice of cupcake! What a steal!

Rose cupcake pots

Chocolate peanut butter cake pop heaven

Chocolatey peanut buttery cake pops.



Chocolate cake dipped in a peanut butter chocolate, drizzle with a rich dark chocolate



Spicy baked chicken nachos

With all the baking I do and the fact I have another job (and coach too!) I don't have a lot of time to cook. I love cooking but I have to make it fast or at least low maintenance.

So I find myself baking a lot of chicken because I don't have to watch it constantly. One of my favorites is a spicy chicken. You start off with a cookie sheet and some foil. Lay your chicken out, add some oil (I use sesame oil for the spicy chicken), red chili pepper flakes [any other seasonings you like], hot sauce, jalapenos, and of course salsa. The more you cover the chicken the more moist it will be when it's done baking I've noticed.

Wrap up the foil around the chicken (but make sure if you're using more than one piece of chicken that they don't get pushed together and overlap) and place in a preheated oven at 425. I usually use chicken breast tenderloins so they bake faster (20-25min).

While the chicken is baking, place your tortilla chips on an oven safe plate (or a 9x11in cake pan works great if you're feeding a whole family!). Grate your cheese (I love spicy so I use pepperjack) and sprinkle over the top of your chips. I then add beans, refried or black beans work great. Make sure you don't have any big clumps. Then sprinkle a little more cheese, and add olives, jalapenos, salsa and whatever else you like (or even a second layer of chips!).

When chicken is done (it'll be white all the way through), remove from oven and place your nachos in the oven for a few minutes (until cheese is melted). Once the nachos are done, shred up your chicken and evenly place over the top of your nachos and add sour cream!

Quick and painless, shouldn't take longer than it takes your chicken to bake! And all you have to wash is a cheese grater and a cookie sheet :)

Allergen-free adventures

Just the other day I was asked if I make allergen-free cupcakes. This poor little sweetheart I was told about, can't eat anything it sounds like! Of course I've made vegan cupcakes here and there but never had I even thought to make something without dairy & soy (or almonds for that matter, I love almonds!). Every kid needs to know what a good cupcake tastes like! So I said I'd give it a shot.

I was a little nervous at first, over sterilizing everything! I guess it can't hurt though :) I used palm oil in place of margarine (in the batter & the frosting), it worked surprisingly well, but the texture of the palm oil alone is a little dry (compared to shortening or margarine). Almost all of my frostings contain some cream cheese because it cuts back on the sweetness of frosting, however even vegan frosting has soy in it, so the frosting was a little sweeter than I wanted but still good. I made it with palm oil, vanilla & lemon extracts, raspberry jam and of course powdered sugar.

The cupcakes I chose to make were a lemon vanilla cake with a raspberry jam filling. I baked in the jam (I think it tastes better that way), added lots of lemon zest and more flour than I would've to make up for using rice milk [which is thinner than soy milk/regular milk]. When beating the palm oil with the sugar, it didn't blend like butter and sugar, so I added a tiny bit of canola oil to smooth it out a bit and make it nice and fluffy. Like the texture you want when using butter and sugar. I used apple cider vinegar like I usually do when making vegan vanilla cupcakes, but after the fact, I should've used lemon juice (since they were lemon vanilla!). The texture was great, the filling was great, the frosting was sweet but a great consistency and easy to pipe (if you make raspberry frosting, use a wide tip so the seeds don't get stuck!).