Old Pic...

Here's some cupcakes I did for my friends at Dragon's Roost for Halloween. I made their logo out of chocolate.

New Photos

Ok I really should be working on my labels... I'll do that tomorrow night :)
Here's some photos from recent events... enjoy!!!

These were chocolate cupcakes for the Jesusfield auction. The toppers is a logo they use (yes it's the element logo)



These were for a birthday... the material in the background was the inspiration. They're orange cream, though next time I think I'll do just orange.





And the final one's are Oreo with Vanilla Buttercream for an 80's party

Get Up and Go

I just found out this morning after submitting all my recipes that hopefully I should be up and running as an officail business within the next month. I first need to get my cottage license and then a business license from Ogden City. A website is in the works. But I'll still continue to post my mouth watering pics on here... I have a few to post from and 80's birthday party, an upcoming auction with custom logos along with a flower power birthday.

Names and Flavors

Here it is the names and flavors coming to Sweet Charity's Cupcakery. I have two potential coffee shops that I can sell my cupcakes in... now to get the paperwork sent out and get the ball rolling.


FYI- If you click on the pic it will bring it up larger.

The only one I need a name for is my chocolate peanut butter cupcake w/peanut butter buttercream.

Oh so close....

I finally got all my recipes typed up... I'm very excited. I have some very fun names and flavors that I'll be offering... which I'll have to post later because the list is at home. Now all I need to do is get all the paperwork in and send it off to start the process of getting my cottage license. This means that I have to have someone review and approve all my recipes. Also I have to label everything as homemade and put the ingredients on the label along with all my info. I then have to have the health inspector come in and approve my home for baking. I already got a mini fridge to put everything in and I keep all my baking supplies seperate. After all of this is done I can then go to the city and get my business license- hopefully. Most cities have not heard of a cottage license. Then once I have my license I plan on going to local coffee shops and seeing if I can get them to sell my product and maybe even do some farmer's markets this summer. I'm very excited. Layton is getting a home base cupcakery so this has really gotten my but into gear. I'll keep you posted.

Frustration

The last 4 batches of new recipes I've tried have all turned out horrible. I think it's the amount of baking soda I'm using... but I'm determined to get it right... even it I have to bake every day. The sad part is the cupcakes don't even turn out enough to each they just sink in the middle. But in the meantime here's some recent and not so recent photos.

Oh so excited...

I found my perfect frosting for my red velvet cupcakes... now I just need to perfect making them. It's a roux frosting with requires you to cook flour and milk together until thick. I learned last week this doesn't mean sort of thick but very thick. But man is it good. Apprarently it's the original frosting put on red velvet cake before cream cheese. I'm excited. The plan is to make some for Valentines next week so hopefully I can perfect my technique by then.

Cupcakes.... coming soon

Hey everyone-
Finally got the baking bug again. I started my paperwork to get my Food Cottage license and hopefully within the week will be mailing in my application. Keep your fingers crossed.

I also found my new favorite store... Kitchen Kneads. Unfortunately it's right down the street from me. You would think this is a good thing... well the bad thing is now I can run over there and spend more of my money. But they had a lot of the extract flavorings I've been looking for. Hopefully they give discounts to business owners... I'll be asking soon.

New flavors coming soon:
Pina Coloda
Lime Rickey
S'more

2009- What a start

Well 2009 hasn't been to great to me this year. I started off with an amazing birthday celebration. 30 of my closest friends joined me at Rooster's Brewery. The one that I especially wanted to be there didn't make it. But I did at least get to talk to him. Less then a week later he passed away, along with my grandmother. It's been rough. The desire to bake is not really there.
I'm hoping that if I start baking again it will help things get better. Healing will take time. The passing of my friend is definitely God's will. He is now a whole person who can celebrate life. I'm a little jealous that he gets to be up there partying with God and Christ. But in the mean time I'll stay here and party it up with cupcakes.
I have an amazing cupcake drawing he drew me. H drew it as a tattoo but it wasn't quite what I wanted. Now when I look at it I realize it's exactly what I want. So hopefully here in the near future I'll be adding to my tattoo collection. Don't worry I'll post pics.
This weekend I'll be baking some chocolate peanut butter cupcakes w/ Reese's in the middle. These are fun to make. I'm also going to tackle some dark chocolate cupcakes. Per a co-worker's request. Not a huge dark chocolate fan so I'll have to come up with a creative frosting. Maybe marshmellow?
Here's to 2009 getting better and hopefully it'll in with a bang.

Happy Birthday.... to Corbin

Two weeks ago we had a surprise birthday for Corbin... he just turned 16. Our surprise party wasn't much of a surprise but it was still fun. All his friend came to JesusField and hung out.
I made him Oreo cupcakes with music themed chocolate molds. Starting to experiment with ways to top my cupcakes.










Right now I'm baking sugar cookies and going to try to do some decorating. I'll post pics later.