WoW Birthday

As many people know, my husband and I are gamers; specifically computer games, but we do enjoy 360 games every now and again. For my husband's birthday this year I decided to bring his WoW (World of Warcraft) character to life. He played a shaman. The gist of it is, shaman have special abilities called totems that do special things. One very saught after totem is the mana spring totem. To his surprise in front of lots and friends and family, I revealed the Totem cake. Made from scratch vanilla, chocolate and lemon cakes, with vanilla frosting.

The Farmer's Market: revisited

Back in June I was working part-time at an organic co-op farm in Amherst, NH. I thought attending the co-ops farmers market would be a great way to promote The Sweet Life. So I set up my table, printed out some flyers, and presented an array of sunflower and ladybug cupcakes on my cupcake tree. Making both ladybug and sunflower cupcakes seemed quite an appropriate expression for the co-op's first farmer's market of the season....afterall summer was in full swing, ladybugs were flying around, and flowers were all in full bloom.

Everyone commented on the creativity and appeal of the of cupcakes. Since I was not the only vendor at this farmer's market, I was able to talk with other vendors for some tips and tricks. Several flyers were distributed and out of 48 cupcakes made, I sold 20....and there was only 25-30 people there! A successfull venture indeed.

4th of July: revisited

Back in July a friend of mine, Jennifer Williams of Sheer Elementants Salon in Manchester, asked if I could make some birthday cupcakes for one of her friends.  Every year they go camping over the 4th of July.  She normally brings a cake but this year she was looking for something different.  She wanted the cupcakes to be festive, and then have a special birthday cupcake for the "guest of honor."  So  I decided to go with patriotic fireworks cupcakes.  The cake and frosting were both vanilla.  And after the camping trip was over Jennifer said the cupcakes were perfect and everyone loved them.