Here I am posting from my office something I try not to do. But I have decided something needs to happen in the Office that makes me feel good in stead of everything that happened yesterday which made me feel, well I was hugging Elmo.
I am a tick behind on posting but in my defense things have gotten just a tick CRAZY. I spent 3 days preparing my house for a showing. OUCH! In the middle of that I had to take some time out to create a few yummies for a friend. My dear friend Kim wanted me to make her mom a cake as it was her birthday and they were coming to town. Splendid! But instead of a cake we opted for cup cakes.
Not just any old cup cakes, PUP CAKES! I had received this magazine in the mail and remembered how cute they were. Kim had originally asked me to make a boxer dog cake. WHOA! That was going to be difficult. So while these wonderful cakes were in the oven I worked on making all the puppy features. I have to add that my new Wilton Cup Cake pans are the most awesome things EVAR! No two ways about it. Don’t be silly I didn’t pay $18.99 for them I used the Michael’s 40% off coupon found in your Sunday paper on a regular basis. 🙂
This is fairly simple for the Westie and Scotty dog you cut marshmallow in to tear drop shapes and dip the raw edge in pink sugar. The tongues are made from starburst and their little faces are ends of the marshmallow cut off and applied to the cup cake, then covered in frosting. The bull dog parts are made from caramels softened in the microwave and rolled out. It would of been much nicer if parents.com would of included a “pattern” so you knew what shape to cut but hey I just made do. Once you place the marshmallow on for his snout cover it with the caramel muzzle and chin. OMG! He is so cute. The Beagle dog called for some obscure chocolate wafer cookie that I could not find so I improvised by scraping the cream out of an Oreo. You need these on the cupcake to support the long ears made from microwaving a tootsie roll. His tongue is made from a whole starbust instead of 1/4 like the other puppies. Assembly came much later in the afternoon once KLT had returned from the store with the main ingredient for frosting. By this time Carla had come to help me pack up the rooms and we took turns assembling the little puppies. Of course we cheated I have real cake decorating supplies so there is no need to put stuff in plastic bags and fake it. Over all we had fun I would not want to make all 24 cup cakes in this manner, it might of taken forever.
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