Amy e-mailed me the other day asking me if i could do some cupcakes for her friend’s birthday. Desiree had recommended me to her and she had been impressed with the work she’d seen on my web. As such, she asked if i could make some cupcakes representing her and her friends plus some Starbuck cups. Why Starbucks cups some of you might ask? Well.. Amy told me that her and her friends always hang out at Starbucks all the time and they are known as the Starbuck girls. So she wanted the cupcakes to be designed to include their favourite hangout.. thus the Starbuck cups.
After thinking about it, i remember previously coming across some gorgeous face cupcakes someone else had done and thought this would be perfect for Amy’s cupcakes since she wanted the cupcakes to represent each of her friends. Amy had even though ahead and provided me with a photo of her and her friends as a guide for me. So once the idea was pitched to her and confirmed, i went ahead and started thinking of ways to make the cupcake look like each of Amy’s friends. After doing up some really bad sketches which i’m not going to post up here :p i began on the cupcakes.
As for the Starbuck cups, i did a google search to see what the Starbuck’s logo looked like since i never really studied it before. So after finding some great pictures, i begain the painstaking effort of slowly painting on the logos onto the cups.. which trust me is one of the toughest things I’ve ever done due to how tiny i had to make the Starbucks cup in order to fit it onto the cupcake. Trust me, painting on the logo onto a cup that is smaller than my thumb is not the easiest thing to do. I could feel my hand shaking with each stroke of my brush and i had to hold my breath every time i lay brush to cup. Whew!! So once the cups were finished i began on the faces which took me longer than expected. Overall i was very satisfied with how they turned out 
Can any one guess which cupcake represents which girl in the photo? Haha.. a little hint *the cupcakes are arranged according to the sequence of the girls in the photo.
From the photo, Amy is the girl on the top row extreme left and the birthday girl is the girl in the top row extreme right. So according to the cupcakes, Amy is also the girl on the top row extreme left Did any of you guess it right? :p
Anyway, here’s a shout out to the birthday girl, wishing her a very Happy Birthday. I hope all you guys liked the cupcakes!
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Posted 1 year, 4 months ago at 5:08 pm. 7 comments
In my last post regarding my 2nd order for cupcake faces, I had promised that I would post up pictures of the completed cupcakes… I know it’s been a while, but only just uploaded the photos from my camera… hehe
Anyway, here’s a look at how they looked
These were made with a rich, creamy chocolate ganache frosting, and the features were done using royal icing… I thought they turned out quite nicely as I tried to make the ganache thicker
During the making of the cupcakes above, I had some extra cupcakes leftover so decided to make a very special cupcake for my very special boo…
These very special cupcakes had both oodles of ganache frosting as I decided to use up all the remaining ganache I’d left from making the face cupcakes above, and in addition, I topped it with swirls of royal icing… haha.. enough to give anyone instant diabetes.. Oh well.. my boo has a super sweet tooth, so he should enjoy it… and it’s only once in a long long while right hee…..
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Posted 2 years, 3 months ago at 5:12 pm. Add a comment
Just got a call from my loyal supporter again today.. .. apparently the cupcake faces my Aunt gave her friends were a big hit and they were back for more Chocolatey Choc Madness cupcakes!!
This time around, they still wanted to have cupcake faces, but instead of glasses to have a a nose added instead… so i’ll be in the kitchen again this week baking up a fresh batch of cupcakes! Yay!
I’ll be sure to post up the pictures of the cupcakes when they’re done… in the meantime.. I’m trying to come up with a new cupcake flavour and do some wild experiments in the kitchen while I’m at it… Anyone has any ideas??!!
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Posted 2 years, 4 months ago at 11:08 pm. 1 comment
My first cupcake order came in today… yippeeee.. (cut to scene: me running around the house screaming at the top of my lungs, and my 2 schnauzers running after me and jumping up and down on the sofa wondering what the hell’s the matter with me – total chaos).Actually I’m not sure that I can really consider this my first order considering that the request came from my Auntie, whom I believe is trying to be nice and supportive. But what the heck.. I’m not going to be fussy… I’m just happy that someone wants me to bake something for them! Yay!
So we finally sat down to discuss what she wanted… and it was decided that she wanted a rich chocolate cupcake, topped with sinfully thick chocolate ganache for herself. In addition, as she had a friend’s birthday coming up, she also asked if it would be possible for me to do up a face cupcake for her.
So as soon as I got home, I quickly started brainstorming on how to do up the face cupcakes… in the end, to cut a long story short, I decided to use a chocolate cupcake base topped with decadent chocolate ganache to create the base of the cake. To create the face, I decided to use marshmallows, some icing and a little bit of creativity to create the face. Simple, fun to make and hoepfully the end result would be cute…
These were what the cupcakes turned out to look like… what do you think??
I call these cupcake faces Chocolatey Choc Madness since they are just soooo sinful… Using a dense chocolate cupcake base, I topped the cupcakes off with a decadent, and rich chocolate ganache glaze and decorated the faces using marshmallows and chocolate… Don’t you think they look so cute.. even if they do look a little nerdy..
A close up view of the cupcake faces..
These are the cupcakes my Auntie ordered… also using a chocolate base and a thick ganache glaze, I thought I’d pretty it up a little using mini marshmallows and a tiny pink flower….
Had some extra cupcake batter left over so decided to make some mini cupcakes, topped these chocolate cupcake mini’s with a big swirl of icing and a little pink flower…
Last but not least…. thought I’d try piping some pink flowers directly on to the ganache glaze.. I thought these came out looking quite pretty and it looks just like a garden in full bloom…
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Posted 2 years, 4 months ago at 4:14 am. 3 comments
