More Butter Pecans...

I got an request for a dozen butter pecan cupcakes today at work from one of the guys that said he ate FIVE when I brought them in for that big meeting. He was a big fan! He said they were the best cupcakes he had ever had. Well, this time I decided to kick it up a notch by putting none other than a PECAN on the top, along with raw sugar. The icing was my all-natural vanilla buttercream.

Here's a close up of the raw sugar on the pecans. I painted them with sugar-water to make the sugar stick. It was a sweet time.

I took a couple extra to our new neighbors and they were so excited! It's easy to please a southern guy with a butter pecan cupcake.

That's all for now!

Little Bows

For these cupcakes, I decided to spread buttercream icing on flat instead of piping it on, and then decorate with a little icing bow. The colors seem a little misrepresented in the photo, but the main icing was mint green, and the bows were a darker teal. I didn't mean to put these cupcakes in such dramatic lighting... but they handle the spotlight well. ;-)

Oh, cupcakes are just so much fun.

Cupcakes for Work

This past week at work, we had a global meeting and a luncheon afterwards that I helped plan. I decided to make cupcakes for the luncheon, and I ended up making 8 dozen! I made three flavors: chocolate, "funfetti", and butter pecan, all topped with my all-natural vanilla buttercream and various toppings. 

I got so many compliments about the cupcakes! It was fun. I just couldn't stand ordering a cake from a grocery store for the event, so I whipped up some cupcakes, and everyone really liked them! I think most people's favorite kind was the butter pecan. I wasn't too sure how well that flavor would go over with a large group, since it's a little more unusual than your standard chocolate cake or yellow cake with sprinkles, but after so many good reactions, I'll have to make that flavor more often.