gingerbread house contest!

Hey, hey, hey, hey! it's again for our annual gingerbread house contest! We switched it up a bit this year. We have our expert class, and a NEW novice class. All expert houses and the winner for the novice class will all help raise money for Food For the Hungry. Food For the Hungry houses will be on display during the Christmas walk. 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes will be given for both classes! 1st in expert- A ONE NIGHT STAY AT THE WHITE OAK INN!!! 1st in novice- A NEW KITCHENAID MIXER!!!!

All houses MUST be completely edible. The drop off date is November 7th at noon at he cupcake. Judging will be November 8th. Good Luck!

Homecoming at the pink cupcake

Can you tell we love Jim Perry here at the cupcake? Homecoming went of well. The girls looked beautiul in their dresses. what? You want to see some pictures? Lets see what I can do.
This is Allison (Not my kid), Steven (also, not mine) and Arie (mine). My other daughter would kill me if I put her picture on here. Trust me, she was beautiul. We lost the game, who really pays attention to that anyway?LOL! The girls reported that everyone had a great time.
Our window reflected (get it?) our support for the team and our support for football player, Jim Perry. Uncle Dave's son. I love small town life here in Mount Vernon. We watched the parade go by the shop and everyone went to the bonfire. So cool all the kids go to school together and Sommer's family is HUGE and has really adopted us. It's really wonderful.
Lucky for us the yellow jacket's colors are orange and black (not sure why? wouldn't it be yellow? I digress.) Anywho, we can switch right over to halloween. I am really excited for some scary halloween cakes and maybe a wedding cake. Hopefully we can start on that monday after I wash the window. Thats it for now. It was a super busy weekend. Not many pictures. One wedding in Coshocton. You can check out the pix on the flickr site. www.flickr.com/photos/thepinkcupcake

Gordon food show

LOL! Guess what I did today!? This is me munching down at the Gordon food show today in Columbus. It was a pretty fun time. Not a lot of bakery items but I did buy a new mop bucket. WOO HOO! Pretty sad when one gets so excited at the sight of the rubbermaid booth. It was a fun day away from the shop. I was a bit nervous leaving but the girls handled everything just fine. Part of owning your own shop are the perks, like a food show. The other part would be having to spend $43 on a new mop bucket. The pink hair got me lots of attention today,lol. And we left our salesman, Randy, a pretty funny message at the message center. I hope it doesn't get him in trouble. We were in rare form after eating a lot of seafood and lots of meat. Sounds funny when I say it out loud. We saw our friends Jeanne and Stu from the Gambier Deli. And I tried a very yummy guava pastry that I think we will start to carry. So all in all, a good day. Tomorrow back to the grindstone.

The millennium falcon

A quick disclaimer before we get started....
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Beth

Let me begin by saying what a fun project this was. It truly was a work of art from beginning to end. When you work closely with a person every day it can go one of two ways... It can become a battle, and you can dread the thought of going to work every day. Or, it can be a beautiful dance. Where words don't even need to be uttered and you can sense the other persons thoughts and feelings. When you are totally in sync and everyday is more fantastic than the day before. The latter is what it is like here at the cupcake most of the time. Apart from the jokes and general fooling around we do here at the cupcake, the partnership we share here is rare. Sometimes when we are in the midst of a project Sommer and I just look at each other. No words are spoken. But the thought is the same.... BLISS.

This project was very quick and very fun. It took about 6 hours I would guess, start to finish. 3 of us worked on it. I will try to talk you throughout our process. 1st, we plan. This first pic represents our planning process. We talk it out and bounce around ideas. Sketches are made and a plan is formed. We ALWAYS have a base plan to go by. No changes are made unless they are discussed and agreed upon.

This next picture is after Sommer has baked the basic shape. She is shown here carving the cake. Rarely do we use shaped pans. It lets us have much more freedom with our designs and gives us a crisper, more classic look.

After much discussion, it was decided to go with rice crispy treats for the gun hatch part (forgive me for not knowing the technical terms). I love the crispies for sculpting. Not only are they yummy, they conform to any shape needed.

Chocolate fudge is applied as the base. Normally a thin coating of butter cream is used but this was the clients request. The chocolate fudge is difficult to work with under the fondant as it is very soft.

Chris and I cover in fondant and pipe on the details using royal. Earlier Christine had designed the gun for the top and satellite dish out of gumpaste.

Sommer paints and adds the details. And we're DONE!

Surviving the storm

Hi everyone out in cupcake land.
We survived the storm. For those who don't already know, we had terrible winds from hurricane Ike. I guess Mount Vernon was declared a disaster zone. I can totally see why. I guess some are still out of power. I hope they come out to the pink cupcake for a fresh muffin and some coffee. I am so sorry for those who can't get their morning fix. We have had power all along, thank God! So this is just to let everone know we are still alive. No cake pictures right now. There is a lot going on, I'm going to try to put some pictures on my flickr account later tonight. Love you all, Beth

The finished cake

This is the finished cake. Just darling! A really pretty fun cake. The perfect ending to a busy weekend.

Angie and Kevin's wedding

Here I am at the Dan Emmett working on Angie and Kevin's cake. The Dan Emmett has never looked so fabulous! Honestly, the chair covers rock!!!! They totally make the room. I just love, love, love them. I will post the finished cake pix as soon as I get them back. Today was a good cake day. Three weddings. All our special occasion cake photos didn't come out. They were all shadowy and weird. So no super cool stuff this week. I posted more of what we do have on our flicker account. All in all a great day!