St. Patty's Day meets Girl Scouts!!

Last month we celebrated St. Patrick's Day and in my quest to be the ultimate hostess, I threw a little shindig. In the spirit of the holiday I decided to make Mint Chocolate Chip Babycakes. Since I used to be a Girl Scout and my wonderful Niece Cadence is one as well, I thought I'd put a twist on the traditional babycake on our menu. These are a dark chocolate babycakes with chocolate chips topped with a mint butter cream frosting. I decided to place crumbles of Thin Mint cookies and top it off with the cookie itself. They were definitely a hit!! Enjoy!

Kahlua & Creme

These Kahlua & Creme babycakes were done today for a special Girls Night Out Birthday party. A Kahlua soaked dark chocolate cake with a Kahlua butter cream frosting topped with chocolate drizzle. I know right??? Enjoy!

Wild Thing

A few weeks ago I was elated to receive an order for a baby shower in honor of a girlfriend of mine. The theme was pink and zebra stripes for her baby girl who will be making her debut soon. :-) I was ready for some hot pink frosting and zebra cupcake liners. The request was a little different. Well, a lot...I had to incorporate pink and zebra all on a babycake!! Needless to say it was not an easy task but it sure was fun!! I kept it simple with just a lemon butter cream frosting and vanilla bean babycake. They went over really well! Adults and kids alike!!

So Hard to Say Goodbye...

Next to my passion for baking is my passion for working with youth. I truly love what I do (in every aspect) While my director (at the time) Meredith decided to move on to a new position, we couldn't let her go without giving her some specialty babycakes. These were vanilla bean babycakes with vanilla buttercream frosting topped with mini chocolate chips drizzled with caramel. Something super sweet for such a sweet woman. Check out some of my students enjoying them too!!!

Two Is the Magic Number

It's been a WHILE to say theleast since I've posted and A

LOT haschanged!! My last post was about a Baby Cake by the name

of Mali who celebrated his 1st birthday. Well, I thought it only fitting to follow up with the next one! (He's gotten soo big!) This year the birthday boy's theme was ELMO!!

I really wanted to make it special so I took a giant leap and designed a single Elmo babycake.

I was inspired (of course) by my mom who customized all (four) of our birthday cakes every single year. (An amazing woman she is.) This was my very first attempt and I must say with no formal training, I did pretty ok! I also made a simple lemon babycake with lemon buttercream frosting topped with red sprinkles and little Elmo candies.

Everybody seemed to have a blast. Adults too!!! Even got a giant hug from the birthday boy! Good times had by all.

Lumiere Rouge

My sister and her husband decided to throw a fantastic Halloween soiree. It was exclusive and very, very fun. Lumiere Rouge (Red Light) was the theme. They decided to do a sexy theme instead of a scary one. Of course a party wouldn't be a party without baby cakes!!! (black) Chocolate baby cakes with black swirled vanilla cream cheese frosting and (orange) lemon baby cakes with (orange) lemon butter cream frosting and black sprinkles. I thought it would be fun to be a killer bee with a weapon of a rolling pin! ha! We did a cute little swarm of different bees. What a blast!!!!

Lady Diva Inc. held their first annual dinner. This is an organization geared toward empowering young women through mentoring, education and the arts. Bake Sweet Love was a proud sponsor for this event of 200 plus people. The turn out was fantastic and the baby cakes were a hit! We did 100 chocolate baby cakes with chocolate butter cream frosting and 100 french vanilla baby cakes with Dulce de Leche butter cream frosting. These are the before and almost after. The official "after" was a completely empty table. :-)

Celebrate Good Times!!

In May, there were a lot of celebrations and festivities. After lots of hard work and dedication, one of our dear friends graduated from medical school. Shortly after, he had a birthday so we decided to host a small gathering to celebrate him. This was an intimate and informal get together so there wasn't a huge spread. I did manage to make something sweet. (of course, a party isn't a party unless there's cake!) His favorite color is blue so I created my own blue sugar sprinkles to top off the baby cakes. Although we are all grown ups, you're never too old to have fun and youthful things! These were a lemon & lime baby cake with lemon & lime zest butter cream frosting.

International Love

This week my buddy DJ 2-Tone Jones celebrated his Dirty 30 birthday and it was fantastic. I kept trying to think of something special and creative custom made for him. I was going to focus on the DJ theme because the 30 theme seemed too corny. Nothing I came up with felt personal enough. Until....I had an idea! I decided to incorporate one of his favorite drinks (American Honey Liqueur) into something sweet. These love bites went international this time around. French Vanilla with American Honey Liqueur and a touch of lemon zest. I also incorporated the American Honey into the vanilla butter cream frosting and topped it off with caramel drizzle. (Oh yeah!!!)

I was worried b/c he doesn't eat a lot of sweets. Needless to say they were a HIT!! He even came over to tell me he really liked them. I went small this time around making Love Bites instead of Baby Cakes. Sometimes its better when people can be discreet about their greediness. Hee Hee. We took some photos before they went out to folks. Enjoy!!!