Featured on Hammers and High Heels!

I was beyond excited to see that Hammers and High Heels featured my wreath tutorial last week!  If you haven't checked out the blog, please take a look! You will love it. Thanks Carla!

In celebration, it's time for another giveaway!  Just leave a comment telling me what celebration you would use a dozen fondant cupcake toppers for.  A winner will be selected randomly this Friday, and will win those toppers!

Fondant Pumpkin Tutorial

I love fall baking...especially creating fun fall cupcake toppers.  Last year, my favorites were these cute pumpkin pie toppers.  This year, I started off the season with fondant pumpkins!  I thought I'd share a tutorial on how to make these cuties for your fall party.  Excuse the photo quality.  Our fancy camera was having a moment, so I had to use my cell phone.

Step One: Roll orange fondant into a ball.
Tip: If you need to make these the day of the event, it's probably a good idea to mix a bit of gumpaste in with the fondant to help them harden.

Step Two: Create a hole at the top using a toothpick.
This is probably not necessary, but it helps me with the next step.

Step Three: Working your way around your ball, use a toothpick to make lines. 
Tip: I use the side of the toothpick, so the lines will be smooth. 

 



This is what it will look like after going all the way around.  Starting to look like a pumpkin!

 

 

Step Four: To make the stem, take a small piece of brown fondant and roll it out into a long tube.  Cut a small piece and attach with water to the top of your pumpkin. 

Tip: Curving these little guys will make them look more natural. 

 

 

Step Five: Now it's time for the green vine! Like you did with the stem, roll out green fondant into a small tube and cut a small section for each vine.  Wrap your piece around a toothpick to get the curly effect.  Attach with water to the top of your pumpkin. 

Tip: I try to make each of these a little different so each pumpkin is unique. 

 

 

 

That's all there is to it!  I hope you make some of these easy, cute toppers for your Halloween or Thanksgiving party table!

 

 

 

 

Cupcake Toppers

A few months ago, I did a cupcake topper giveaway on the blog.  Two sweet families won the toppers and both redeemed the prize last week! 

Cute little pirates

Pirates at the party

 

 Sweet lambs

Western 1st Birthday

Smash Cakes

Cupcake Toppers

Baby Shower Cupcakes

Favorite Things Party!

My prayer when I moved to a new city, where I knew no one but the hubby, was that God would bless me with new friends. He is MORE than faithful! Over the past year, I have met the most wonderful, special girls whose friendships have meant the world to me, and have blessed my life more than I could have imagined.  A few weeks ago, I invited some of these sweet friends over for a party celebrating all of our favorite things! I saw the idea on a blog and knew it would be a fun girls' night!  Here's the idea: each guest brings enough of her favorite item (under $5) for every other guest...so each person leaves the party with, in our case, 9 new favorite things!

Sweet Melissa drove from Birmingham to celebrate with us, making the night even MORE special!

Thing 1 and Thing 2 Cupcakes

Sleeping Beauty Cupcake with Crown Mini-Cupcakes

Super Bowl Cupcakes

Happy Birthday Jesus and Ellie Cupcakes

A sweet little girl wanted to share her class birthday party with Jesus this year, so I made cupcakes with these cute fondant toppers. Her mom texted after the party that the kids loved them, but were fighting over which character they were given...we should have thought about that with three-year-olds!

Baby Shower Cupcakes

These may be the best tasting cupcakes ever!  My new friend Rachel hosted a breakfast baby shower at her home a couple of weeks ago and we decided to have banana nut cupcakes with cinnamon cream cheese frosting.  I made fondant toppers in sweet baby shapes.  As my nephew would say, DELICIOUS! 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes with Fondant Pumpkin Pie Toppers

Baby Shower Sweets

My friend Sarah hosted a baby shower last weekend and asked for lots of treats to celebrate a baby boy! I created a sweet monogram cake, cake truffles, oreo pops, chocolate dipped pretzels, and mini-cupcakes with fondant buttons!  It was a lot of work, but the end result was so worth it!