Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Raspberry Swirl Mini Cheesecakes


These delightful mini cheesecakes were made for a baby shower. Beautiful red, tart but sweet raspberry puree adds a delicious note of flavor to these classic cheesecake minis.

The cheesecake is smooth and creamy with just the right amount of graham cracker crust.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Tree Stump Cake, Leaf Cake & Leaf Cupcakes

This is a tree stump cake that I made for an 80th birthday celebration for a man who had a career in forestry. The cake was a simple yellow cake with chocolate and vanilla buttercream. The acorns were edible.

I also made cupcakes that I decorated with edible leaves. The cupcakes were white cake with vanilla buttercream.

I also made a small celebration cake for the husband and wife to take home and enjoy later. It was a white cake with vanilla buttercream and edible leaves.







Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Cupcakes

These were Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream that I made for someone close to Halloween.

Monday, October 25, 2010

A Birthday Cake and 4 Fall Mini Desserts

This is a cake I made for a 6th birthday. It was white cake with vanilla buttercream, decorated with sugar flowers and Littliest Pet Shop toys.
I made 4 desserts for a Fall get-together. First were Impossible Pumpkin Pie Cupcakes, which taste like pumpkin pie, topped with sweetened whipped cream.
Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes topped with cinnamon whipped cream
Brown Sugar-Apple Mini Cheesecakes topped with sweetened whipped cream

Apple Cupcakes with 4 different kinds of apples, which were dusted with powdered sugar right before serving

Saturday, October 2, 2010

50th Birthday Party

These mini treats were for a 50th birthday party. There was a Hawaiian/Tropical theme with the flavors lemon, lime, coconut, macadamia nut, pineapple, and other tropical fruits.
I made a variety of mini tarts, cookies, and mini cupcakes.

Pictured above- sweet tart dough filled with vanilla bean pastry cream- topped with kiwi, mango and raspberries
sweet tart dough filled with lemon-lime curd and sweetened whipped cream
3 types of mini cupcakes
coconut mini cupcakes with pineapple cream cheese frosting and toasted coconut
macadamia nut-white chocolate mini cupcakes with white chocolate-vanilla bean frosting
lemon mini cupcakes with lemon buttercream
coconut lime macadamia bar cookies and tropical snowballs with dried pineapple and macadamia nuts

Monday, August 23, 2010

Mini Cupcakes

Recently, I made over 300 mini cupcakes for my husband's grandmother's 90th birthday party. She is well known in the community and the party had a great turn out.

The flavors pictured above from front to back- Coconut cupcake with fluffy vanilla frosting and toasted coconut, Chocolate Chip cupcake with fluffy vanilla frosting and mini chocolate chips, White Cupcake with raspberry-vanilla frosting, and Yellow Buttermilk cupcake with fluffy vanilla frosting.
Pictured above- Chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting and Mint-filled brownie cupcakes.
pictured above-Yellow Buttermilk cupcake with dark chocolate frosting, Lemon Meringue cupcake, and Chocolate Chip cupcake with dark chocolate frosting.
pictured above- Strawberry cupcakes with strawberry whipped cream and Oreo cheesecakes.

Everyone enjoyed these delicious bite size treats!

Friday, August 6, 2010

sugar by Mary Ann is up and running!
I am so excited to finally be starting
sugar.

Making people feel special by preparing something delicious for them is so much fun for me. I have been busy cooking and taking care of my three kids for the past eight years but with the two oldest in school now, I feel ready to take on a bigger commitment- So here comes
sugar!

I can't wait to start baking delicious treats for ya'll. First up is a big 90th birthday party for my husband's grandmother this weekend. I am making an assortment of mini cupcakes- lots of flavors, so stayed tuned to see how they turn out
!