Trevor's 22nd Birthday: S'mores on the Beach Cake

So, this was for my big bro at Pi Alpha Phi's birthday. Since it was summer, I decided to make a beach themed cake.

Title: S'MORES ON THE BEACH

Cake: Graham cracker & Hershey Chunks

Frosting: Marshmallow flavored

Decor: graham cracker crumbles = sand; blue dyed frosting; chocolate starfishes & trees

Happy Birthday Big Bro!

and yeah, I had to get a cupcake shaped balloon too.

UglyDoll Cupcakes!

So basically UglyDolls are these awkwardly ugly monsters that look like I could've drawn them in Kindergarten, except they're awkwardly REALLY adorable and cute, so their plush stuffed animals are really over priced. Like, a 14 inch one is probably around $25. It's an urban thing I think... Anyways, I decided to decorate a bunch of cupcakes with their faces on them! Here goes:

All 12 that I made.

wedgehead & wage


uglyworm & uglydog


puglee & plunko


ox & moxy


icebat & chuckanucka


bop n beep


and then I ran out of ideas and got tired of UglyDolls
so I made a Pikachu!


When I got really lazy, I did some suuuuuper plain hearts & flowers.


...had to finish them off with my name!

The cupcakes were my 'half scratch half box' cake recipe for devils food chocolate cake and red velvet cake.

Frosting was also homemade, just your basic egg whites, lemon juice, & powdered sugar recipe, plus food coloring for whatever colors I needed. I used the flooding technique for the colored icing and I used melted white chocolate to frame it. The eyes were upside down white chocolate chips and the mouths, eyes, and anything "black" was just melted down baking chocolate.


Victoria and I randomly decided to make cupcakes one night out of nowhere, so we went to Walmart at freakin 10pm after our PAPhi fundraiser at Guad's. We basically finished up with the baking at around midnight and didn't finish decorating until 4am. Anyways, 4am cupcakes were well worth it. It was a ton of fun, and I only had a quiz at 7:30 am the next day anyway so it didn't matter right?

...I didn't show up for class and ended up makign it up at another discussion section.

Overall, I loved it. UglyDolls + Cupcakes = UGLYCUPCAKES!

New Years 2009 Cupcakes

chocolate andes mint cupcakes
creamed cheese frosting
garnish: black & white chocolate piped designs

the plain cupcakes... pre-decorating
I even jacked a donut box from Safeway to make it look legit.

design piping
took a cold cookie sheet and just piped melted chocolate onto it

martini glasses, champagne glasses and fireworks designs


frosting timeeee!

yay the finished products
the family was quite impressed

This was basically my first time attempting "fashionable" cupcakes. I think it turned out quite well. Piping was REALLY hard at first but then I got the hang of it and it's kind of fun actually! I think it gives the cupcakes something extra special. What's really hard is keeping them from breaking after they were solid... They're so freakin fragile! I broke so many martini glasses and "2009"s... Ahhhh. Well worth the effort though. Definite success for my first attempt at this style of decorating though.

Future Goal: Cake decorating class so I can learn to pipe!