My Daughter's Elmo Party

We recently celebrated my daughter's 2nd birthday. She is going through an Elmo phase. I also wanted to incorporate the color pink (of course as it's her favorite color). We had: vanilla cupcakes with milk chocolate frosting and vanilla cream cheese frosting and strawberry cupcakes.

I also made Elmo sugar cookies. These took forever to make, but I love how they turned out!

Georgetown Cupcake!!!!

I have a slight obsession with Georgetown Cupcake. They have a reality show on TLC called "DC Cupcakes" and bakeries located in Washington DC, New York City, and Boston. I've been wanting to try their cupcakes for awhile, and I finally got to! They ship their cupcakes all over the country, but for $29 per dozen plus $26 for shipping, that was NOT going to happen. They had a 24 hour special recently-40% off per dozen AND shipping. I decided to go for it!

Their cupcakes are definitely good. I will say, though, some of the recipes I use or have tweaked are just as good or better. They are well known for their red velvet cupcakes which was very good. I'm so glad I finally had their cupcakes. Would I pay $50+ for them? No, but I would definitely visit their bakery if I'm ever in D.C. or NYC.

Ravens Cookies

I made these Baltimore Ravens cookies for a mom from my mom message board. She lives in Maryland with her family, and her husband was diagnosed with a brain tumor in the fall. He is a huge Ravens fan so I sent some cookies to brighten their day during this difficult time.

Carrot Cupcakes

These were delicious. I took a recipe that I love from Sprinkles and adapted it to make a carrot cupcake. It was moist and delicious!

Irish Cream Cupcakes

I wanted to make some cupcakes for girls' weekend. What better than some Bailey's Irish Cream and cupcakes?!?!?! This cupcake is Bailey's Irish Cream and chocolate with vanilla cream cheese frosting.

Gluten Free Fudge

I have a few co-workers who are gluten free and have been wanting me to make a GF cupcake. I finally found one from Georgetown Cupcake that I used. Yum! It was really good, and my co-workers said it was the best sweet they've had in a long time. These are Gluten Free Chocolate Fudge with a fudge core and vanilla cream cheese frosting.

Halloween

These were so fun to make! Chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with vanilla cream cheese frosting.