Posts Tagged ‘animals’
Easter Cupcakes
Sunday, April 4th, 2010We had Matt‘s family over for dinner yesterday (because we have a table to eat at for the first time in 3-4 years!), so I made some Easter themed cupcakes to serve for dessert. Matt’s mom got me some Wilton Silly-Critters! Silicone Baking Cups for Christmas that I’ve been looking for an excuse to use, so I figured why not make bunny cupcakes, with feet!?
As you can see, there were a few issues with getting the ears to stay on…
Side view so you can see the construction: Mini cupcake for the head, regular cupcake in special cupcake liner for body, and a mini-marshmallow tail! Plus icing all over the place for a bonus.
But since I only had four of the footed liners, and there were seven of us for dinner, I decided to make some “nests” on the other cupcakes.
The “nests” were supposed to be made from pieces of a Flake bar, but I couldn’t find one, so I just used chocolate sprinkles instead. Not the same effect, but it got the point across pretty well, I thought. And of course the eggs were the best Easter (and as of this year, year-round) chocolate ever, Mini Eggs (which appear to only be available in Canada.. I feel sorry for the rest of the world if you really can’t get them anywhere else)!
And the main display:
We put the rest of the Mini Eggs and some regular chocolate eggs on the middle tier to fill it out since the supposedly adjustable tiers got screwed together too tight and we can’t take it apart to take out the middle.
Did you make any fun Easter treats?
Tags: animals, cupcakes, Easter, seasonal
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Bear Cupcakes – How cute is this?!
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Look how super cute these kawaii bear cupcakes made by flickr user paperlilies are! And not only are they super cute on the outside, but they’re rainbow-y on the inside! I’ve done something similar to this in cake form, but my colours were nowhere near as bright as these.
These two are my favourites (especially the green one!!), but there are a ton more here.
Oh my goodness, it’s almost too much cuteness for me!!!
And in this shot (coincidentally of the green one again…) you can see the colours of the cake:
And a cross section for an even better look:
Tags: animals, cupcakes, cute
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Half a Cup – How cute is this?!
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009I’m a day late on this post (for anyone keeping track, I post to “How cute is this?!” on Tuesdays). I was at a Raptors game last night so I didn’t get a chance to post. Plus I didn’t get a chance to find anything cute to post about!
But today I saw this. It’s related to baking, because it’s got a measuring cup in the picture. So I didn’t break my promise! (Plus my last post was about my baking anyway!)
Via Cute Overload
It’s too much! Or I guess not enough when you think about it..
Tags: animals, cute
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New Pets – How cute is this?!
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009So this blog is mostly about baking, but sometimes it’s not going to be. Because it’s mine and I’ll do what I want! So for this week’s How cute is this?! I want to show you some new pets that my in-laws got on Saturday!
First, my sister-in-law got a new kitten! He’s so super cute, and his name is Jake. Here’s his cute face:
That picture doesn’t really do him justice, since we only had an iPhone for pictures of him.. he’s even cuter than that. Here’s what he looks like when I eat him (and also what I look like when I wear glasses.. which isn’t something you get to see often):
See how small he is?!?!? Cute!
Then Matt’s parents got a new dog, Zoey! She’s part German Shepperd and part Akita (they think..). She’s about 11 months old and is a giant (well at least to me.. I’ve had cats my whole life, and they are small compared to this). But she’s a cute giant!
See?!
Alright, I promise my next post will be about baking. My baking even! I made some mini cupcakes this week, and have quite a few different things I need to make cupcakes for in the coming week or so, so be prepared for this blog to start picking up! (Assuming I have time.. what with all the baking!)
Tags: animals, cute, pets
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Lil Lions – How cute is this?!
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Look how cute these lion cupcakes are! I’m going to have to try something like this soon!!!
Don’t you just love those little faces? Apparently the person that made these doesn’t have a business for them – she just does it for her friends. She should change that!!
Tags: animals, cupcakes, cute
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Fall Cupcakes
Friday, October 9th, 2009Two years ago a friend hosted a bake-a-thon at her house – a bunch of friends get together and bake all day, based on a theme. This was the first one I participated in, and the theme was cupcakes. It was this that started my love for making cupcakes!
Because it was in the fall, I decided I wanted to make pumpkin cupcakes. I searched the net and found a recipe for pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese icing, which ended up being delicious (unfortunately I didn’t save the link so I can’t link it here). One day (before the bake-a-thon), I saw a magazine with a picture of cupcakes decorated to look like owls. I thought that it looked like a super cute but easy idea, so I decided that this is what I would do with my pumpkin cupcakes!
I used shaved almonds for feathers, Werther’s Originals with icing & chocolate chips for eyes, and cashews for beaks.
Here’s how they turned out:
They didn’t look exactly like in the picture on the magazine. I blame that on not being able to find butterscotch lifesavers and having to use Werther’s Originals instead – I think having the eyes round would have looked better. I should try these again some day (I may try the vegan chocolate chip pumpkin recipe I have.. but maybe not) and see if they look any better now (hopefully I can find the lifesavers this time!)
Tags: animals, cupcakes, fall
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