In my little nephew’s school, whenever one of the kids celebrates a birthday, they bring cupcakes to treat their classmates. My sister decided to bake him “Monster Cupcakes” this year, and from what I understand they were a hit. So much so that we may be baking a batch for a graduation party. My sister got the idea from Disney Family Fun website, they actually have a video showing how to make them, however we did not quiet follow the instructions and put our own spin on the idea.

All you need is to bake your favorite cupcakes. The “fur” decoration was done with a grass decorating tip 233 using butter cream icing. The little feet are made of marshmallow circus peanuts bars, one bar makes two feet when you cut it in half. For the antennas we used red liquorice and the eyes were made out of mini m&m’s.

We made 15 green monster cup cakes and 15 blue ones:


Here ere are few things you might need to make the monster cup cakes:

This post is long overdue. In fact I planned to have it published for St. Patrick’s day hoping some of my readers will be inspired to make similar cakes. Things however do not always pan out the way we plan. I hope to remember to bring this post to the front next year around St. Patrick’s day. Meanwhile if you are into all things Irish, you may like my idea of making a cake in form of a shamrock.

A friend of mine has asked me to bake a cake for her daughter’s birthday. My friend’s daughter was whose birthday coincides with St. Patrick’s Day. I decided to bake a cake that will look like a four leaf shamrock.

A lucky shamrock cake can be very easily done using a small heart cake pan. If you have a set of three heart cake pans for a tier cake- use the smallest one.

You will need to bake four heart shape cakes, then turn them round so all the bottom of each hear almost touch each other.. The stem part can be baked in a simple rectangular bread pan.

About two weeks ago I made a cake for a friends niece’s 15th birthday. The cake was decorated with white and dead daisies and a red ribbon made out fondant. The flowers on the cake topper were made out of fondant as well, accented with red tulle. The cake required 89 white daisies, 60 small red daisies, 20 flowers for the cake topper along with about 8 feet of fondant ribbon.

It took me about 5 hours to make the flowers and the cake topper. To bake, assemble and decorate the cake required another 4.5 hours.

Although fondant cakes look great, the assembling and decorations needs to be done the last minute as fondant can not be refrigerated.