Birthday Bouquet

After seeing this idea on Pinterest, I knew I had to make one for someone's birthday. For Mel's birthday cupcake bouquet I made the Ultimate Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting (I subbed vanilla extract for the vanilla paste). I bought a plain terra cotta pot and painted it purple to match the cupcakes. I followed the tutorial pretty closely, and ended up with 9 cupcakes on the bouquet. It took a lot of green tissue paper (and a lot of help from Ryan) to make all the leaves, but I think it was worth it!

Happy (Belated) Birthday, Ryan

Buttermilk Cupcake with Strawberry Mousse and Swiss Meringue Buttercream

So I made cupcakes for Ryan's birthday, but they didn't come out well so I'm not going to post the recipe. The strawberry mousse was yummy and so was the frosting...which is basically Martha Stewart's Swiss Meringue Buttercream with a little less sugar. I was very sad they didn't come out well, but hopefully I will try a new cupcake recipe soon.