Tea Party in the Woods

7 little girls, dressed as fairy princesses, all together for a tea party in the woods.

Now what little treats would be worthy of such discerning little palates? Why cupcakes of course! None other than Teensy Cakes...at least that's what my friend thinks :)

My very talented photographer friend, Mignon North, had been planning this photoshoot for ages. Over the weekend on an absolutely gorgeous autumn day her idea had finally come to fruition. We all gathered at a local park where my cupcakes were to be set on the table and enjoyed by many little mouths. It was adorable watching the girls play dress up and dance around like they were fairies, and how excited they were to play tea party with juice in teacups and cupcakes. I was able to snag a few pictures from her blog, and with some time I'll have a few more to post. In the meantime, enjoy the spectacular sneak preview!

Busy Busy!

Orders out the wazoo! 3 this week! Things are starting to move :D

The first was for 6 for a friend's, friend's birthday. Chocolate with orange cream cheese and chocolate cherry filled with Godiva white chocolate liqueur buttercream; apparently a delicious success.

The second was for 2 dozen miniatures for a wonderful lady. She lives in the same building as the restaurant I work in and it was her birthday today. I sort of half worked her party in the wine bar (I bartend), but was sent home early since the other bartender was also working incase things got crazy. After being sweetly invited to join them for a drink, I sat down and enjoyed a beer.


Her order included chocolate with strawberry buttercream, all natural red velvet with cream cheese icing, coconut with lime buttercream and lemon with blueberry cream cheese icing. I had a lot of fun with this order!

Now the third is for Saturday, which I believe is for a first anniversary. My services were enlisted after a local bakery that just opened up disappointed her by some expensive, not-so-special cupcakes for her last party. I'm going to do my best to wow her with some fancy little concoctions for a much cheaper price.

I'm LOVING the direction things are going in! I also have another order for a wedding shower in August, including cookies, a cheesecake and maybe a pie. YUMMY!

Best. Job. Ever.

Choco-Lovers!

My most recent order was for a friends birthday who is a self-proclaimed choco-lover. He requested 2 dozen, so I made him Chocolate Chocolate Chip with Cream Cheese Icing and Chocolate Strawberry filled with Strawberry Buttercream coated in Coconut. I brought them in and his mom just about died when she saw the latter of the two! I hope he had a happy birthday!

This was my first attempt at making red velvet (and also my first experience eating it!). It seemed to be so popular I figured I should finally try it myself and see what all the fuss was about.

Although it was quite tasty, I really don't think it lived up to the hype. To me it just tasted like a barely-chocolate-chocolate cake, plus all the red food coloring kind of put me off. I think next time I'm going to use the juice from muddled raspberries for colour (and flavor obviously!). I mean, how delicious is raspberry and chocolate together? Plus this way they're made with nothing artificial, which is what I want the core of TC to be.

Regardless, the cake was really moist and still had a lot of flavor. I topped off the little cakes with cinnamon cream cheese icing.
Thanks to Bakerella for the recipe!

My First Order!

I just dropped off my first order!
It was for 3 dozen, so I made 6 different kinds:

Vanilla Brownie Surprise! with Buttercream


Lemon with Blackberry Cream Cheese


Cinnamon with Nutella Buttercream


Chocolate Cherry-Filled Cinnamon Cream Cheese


Coconut with Raspberry Buttercream


Carrot with Cream Cheese


The best part was that I made about a dozen extras (for my boyfriend and I to nibble on, of course), and after covering them with cling wrap leaving them on the dining room table, we went to bed. Around 3am, I heard one of the cats playing with what I thought was a ball of paper, no biggie. Well he kept coming closer, and eventually jumped on the bed and dropped what he had on my leg. I thought to myself, "jeeze that's a lot heavier than a piece of pap...no...it can't be!" So I reached down and got a handful of icing and cupcake! The little bugger daintily unwrapped the tray (how I have NO idea), stole a cupcake from the corner and I swear to god started to pull off the liner to eat it. He even brought it to bed!!!
I take it as a compliment; my cupcakes are loved by even cats! ♥