tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629271818702776662024-03-12T20:15:24.026-05:00Creative Crumbs NashvilleMy little spot on the internet filled with recipes, cakes, reviews, and food musing....Creative Crumbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08827403867073847061noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862927181870277666.post-54610551543138893902013-07-23T14:19:00.001-05:002013-07-23T14:23:00.860-05:00Meredith and Miles ~ Real Nashville Wedding<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’m so happy to share Meredith and Miles’ beautiful June
wedding. I have known Meredith for
several years, and it is always so special to create cakes for my friends. Plus Meredith and Miles (and Meredith's mom, Jeni) are some of the nicest people I have ever met! I mean, really, look at those smiles! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Meredith wanted something simple, but fresh and
contemporary. Designing a cake with her
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on a tall slender cake with soft swirls of buttercream, decorated with a few
fresh peonies to match her bouquet. The
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Miles is a big UK fan, but he and Meredith didn't want a fondant-covered groom's cake either, so we designed a buttercream cake with a KY Wildcat on top. I don't use sugar paper for any of my designs, so I hand painted the wildcat logo...it takes a little more time, but the results are worth it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Though I've lived in Tennessee most of my life, and consider myself a Nashville girl, I was actually</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> born in KY. My grandmother is a HUGE Kentucky basketball fan, so I can't wait to show her pictures on my next visit!</span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Congratulations to Meredith and Miles! Thanks for letting me be a part of your special day! Blessings on your marriage!</span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Photographer: <a href="http://www.johngentryphoto.com/index2.php#/home/">John Gentry Photography</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Caterer: <a href="http://www.weddingwire.com/reviews/as-you-like-it-catering-college-grove/ecda2c27c7ff9f38.html">As You Like it Catering</a></span></div>
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Creative Crumbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08827403867073847061noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862927181870277666.post-20588283385815794252013-03-10T11:00:00.000-05:002013-03-10T12:54:14.796-05:00A Nashville Wedding ~ Lindsey and Brandon<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy Sunday, dear readers! I have been absent from the blog for quite some time, but I’m back now! Spring is just around the corner and with it comes wedding season! I have had the opportunity to meet with many amazing couples who are so much in love...I can’t wait for all the cakes, cupcakes, and more I get to create for each one's special day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week’s real wedding features Lindsey and Brandon’s beautiful reception at the recently renovated <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thecanneryballroom?fref=ts">Cannery Ballroom</a>. This was my first time delivering there and it was stunning! The ballroom had a great view of downtown too. The fabulous folks from <a href="http://adctcatering.com/">A Dream Come True Events and Catering</a> did a great job on the tablescapes as well!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I first met with Lindsey and her mom back in the fall and they have been so much fun to work with! Lindsey’s wedding cake was frosted in vanilla buttercream and featured a winding cascade of whimsical sugar roses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Behind the cake you barely see a framed verse. Each guest table featured one as well. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This one was a beautiful testament to Lindsey’s love… </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I’ve felt for the first time in my life, the joyful consciousness that I am truly loved by a truly good man, one that with all my heart I can love and honor – one who loves me for myself alone and with an unselfish, patient, gentle affection such as I have never thought to awaken in a human heart.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I didn't get to see the real thing, just pictures, but it features a bottle opener (on the right), bottle holder (on the left), and name plates with each year’s winner inscribed on it. These guys are hard core, so I made sure to capture every detail on the cake!</span></div>
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Creative Crumbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08827403867073847061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862927181870277666.post-83964255347354055102012-12-18T20:15:00.000-06:002013-03-10T12:54:45.884-05:00Jenn & Jermaine : Nashville Wedding<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Happy Tuesday! I usually blog on Sundays, but I just got the pics for Jenn and Jermaine's wedding from <a href="http://www.fivebyfivegallery.com/">Five by Five Photography</a> and I couldn't wait to share their event!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jenn and Jermaine are an amazing couple and I feel so blessed to have been part of their special day! Their wedding was simple, rustic, and romantic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The wedding and reception were set at Camp Marymount, about 45 minutes outside of Nashville. The location was wooded but elegant, and the unusually warm December day made it even more perfect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The bride created all of the decorations for the ceremony and reception. Her attention to detail was incredible...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Instead of traditional tiered wedding cake, Jenn choose a family recipe for her cake. I am always honored to make a family's special recipe, but it makes me a little nervous too! Nothing like baking a cake for the bride's grandmother who created the recipe!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The recipe was a traditional Viennese torte. It was layers of orange sponge cake filled with a chocolate maple frosting. The flavors melded together perfectly into a rich but delicate dessert. I actually used the sponge cake (minus the orange) for my yule log cake last week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jenn and Jermaine both have a passion for music so they choose a fun musical-themed groom's cake. I absolutely LOVED the green hard shell suitcase Jenn picked for the "cake stand."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The cake was Dutch chocolate cake with milk chocolate ganache filling and chocolate buttercream....mmmmm...chocolate....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The piano keys were also made out of a chocolate (imagaine that!). I used semi-sweet modeling chocolate for the black keys and a combination of white modeling chocolate and semisweet modeling chocolate for the "white" keys. The snoopy face is cut out of white modeling chocolate and painted with dark brown food coloring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The catering was provided by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kitchen/203424096364530">Kitchen by House Blend</a>. I actually met Jeremy and Holly at a recent bridal show and got to taste a few of their dishes (two words: butternut squash bruschetta. Okay so that was three words, but it was delish!) Their food is flavorful, fresh, and unique...not your typical catered meal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Laura Stewert with </span><a href="http://www.topshelfbartendingandstaffing.com/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Top </a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.topshelfbartendingandstaffing.com/">Shelf Bartending and Staffing</a> provided all the beverage service for the evening and she was awesome!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.flashtasticphotobooth.com/Flashtastic_Photo_Booth___Home.html">Flashtastic Photo Booth</a> provided the ever-popular photo booth...it was hoppin' all night long. All of the guests (including me) had a great time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I got to make my first yule log cake this week! The kitchen looked so festive as I was decorating it. I got a little crazy with the edible glitter, so it looked like it had snowed all over the floor too......oops. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The yule log was made with a delicate vanilla sponge cake, filled with a fresh raspberry mousse, and frosted with dark chocolate ganache. I had to...ahem..."taste test" one of the ends I cut off and it was delicious! The berries, holly leaves, and pine boughs were handmade out of white modeling chocolate, and the white buttercream was dusted with edible glitter so it sparkled like real snow!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"What does all that have to do with a bulldog cake?" you are probably asking yourself...well nothing really. I just love the Christmas holiday and wanted to share a little of my Christmas joy with you!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, now back to the regularly scheduled programming. As the blog title would suggest, this week's actual featured cake is not the yule log, but a sports cake featuring an awesome bulldog!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of my favorite parts of creating cakes is working with the client to design the cakes....and this cake was no different. Debbie wanted a football themed cake that was a real guy's cake.....a growling bulldog, a football and helmet, and sports logos from all the teams for which "Mr. All-American" had played. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The football, helmet, and bulldog started out as blobs (very technical terms here) of rice crispie treats which I carved into the basic shapes, and then covered with a thin layer of white modeling chocolate to make them smooth. I covered them with a second layer of colored modeling chocolate and then added all the details.....so each piece is 100% edible! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The football and helmet were fairly straightforward, but the bulldog took hours to get right. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I keep tweaking a little bit here and there, adding some here, carving away some there, but finally he looked just the way I wanted: mean and fierce. The teeth and spiked collar were the finishing touches!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Happy Birthday to "Mr. All-American"! I hope it was great!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I also delivered my last wedding cake of the year yesterday. Creative Crumbs has grown so much in the last year, I can't wait to see what more 2013 will hold! I'll be putting the finishing touches on my new kitchen space over the next few weeks and then the grand opening will be in January!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It has been an amazing...but incredibly busy...few weeks at Creative Crumbs! I'm looking forward taking a day off this week for Thanksgiving and some time with family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Drum roll please.......I am so excited to announce that Creative Crumbs will soon have a permanent home in historic East Nashville! I finally found a kitchen/retail space that will accommodate my growing number of orders! Be on the lookout for the GRAND OPENING announcement coming in January! The new space will feature a small cake showroom and tasting area, as well as my baking and decorating kitchen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I had to the opportunity to participate in my first ever bridal show a couple of weeks ago. The Here Comes the Brides Bridal Show hit the Factory at Franklin with about 50 vendors and over 200 brides and their friends/sisters/moms/grooms. The event was so much fun! This show features "bridal wars" as well as a chance to meet and talk with lots of amazing vendors, so it was very entertaining. I'm so looking forward to meeting with several of these brides in the coming weeks and designing some beautiful wedding and groom's cakes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This coming Saturday, November 24th is Small Business Saturday, a day to celebrate and </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">support the local small businesses that boost the economy and invigorate </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">neighborhoods across the country. I'm looking forward to taking p</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">art in Small Business Saturday, and am </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">encouraging everyone to "Shop Small" all around town. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Plus, I'm having a special Small Business Saturday offer! Since the shop isn't officially open yet, you'll have to call or email your orders, but place an order on Saturday and receive 10% off!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I can't believe Thanksgiving is this week...then Christmas is just around the corner! Make your holiday season less stressful by getting some sweet treats from Creative Crumbs this year. Whether you need cookies for a cookie swap, cupcakes to take to an office Christmas potluck, or a cake for a family get together, I can provide delicious baked goods for whatever you need.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Their wedding ceremony was at the beautiful and historic <a href="http://www.assumptionchurchnashville.org/">Church of the Assumption</a> in Germantown, followed by a amazing reception at the <a href="http://www.huttonhotel.com/weddings/">Hutton Hotel</a>. The view from the ballroom was incredible...as was the food! Very rarely am I impressed with the food at receptions, but the chefs at the Hutton prepared a fantastic meal! I absolutely cleaned my plate!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bart's rather unique groom's cake was inspired by several popular superheros: Superman, Batman, and Spiderman. The old-school unicorn on top was NOT the Porsche logo as many guests thought - it was based off the House Brax of Hornvale (not that I really know what that is!). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The cake flavor was, of course, red velvet! Its Bart's all-time favorite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I started by layering the cakes with vanilla buttercream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Even though the cakes are technically already square, I still trim the edges to make the corners much sharper and more defined. Then the cake gets its "crumb coat" of buttercream to seal in the crumbs before covering it with fondant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://courtneydavidson.com/#/wedding-gallery/">Courtney Davidson</a> took some great shots of the cakes....and the rest of wedding too! She truly captured Bart and Caitlin's personalities and how much fun all the guests had at the reception.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These up-close pictures show off each superhero's logo...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Check back next week for the feature on Caitlin's wedding cake plus a fabulous tablescape designed by <a href="http://knestrickbydesign.com/">Knestrick by Design.</a></span><br />
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a beautiful fall day here is Nashville!
I’m so excited about some new things happening here at Creative Crumbs…it’s
truly amazing to see my dreams grow and blossom almost every day! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’m really looking forward to checking out some new
kitchen spaces this week as I’m rapidly outgrowing my current one! I’ll definitely keep you updated with stories
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week’s featured cake was a fun, nostalgic one for me. I loved <u>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</u> when I
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It’s so much fun to do kid’s cake as an adult….it’s
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This cake was for a 1-year-old’s birthday. I drew out two ideas based off the book, and
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I started by coloring all my fondant….I mixed up a base
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week's "cake" is one I made to display at an wedding event this weekend. I put "cake" in quotation marks, because there actually isn't any cake present here:)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Display cakes are a great way to show off designs, techniques or just sizes in 3D, instead of simply in pictures. The decorating process is the same as with a real cake - I still use fondant, buttercream, royal icing, gumpaste, and food coloring to make all the decorations - I'm just covering up styrofoam bases instead of cake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Display cakes are also fun because I get to come up with the ideas for them! I always have input on the designs of the cakes I make, but for display cakes, I get to pick the inspirations not just execute them. I had an idea this week that I wanted to make something with lace and brooches, but I didn't want it to look too old-fashioned...and here's the result!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All the brooches are handmade out of fondant and royal icing. The rose lace is piped using a special technique I discovered a couple of years ago. Its one of my favorite lace designs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm going to be working on some additional display cakes this week to take to an event next weekend too. For those of you in Nashville, come out to Centennial Park next Saturday, September 15 from 10:00 - 6:00 for <a href="http://www.madeinnashville.org/">Made in Nashville</a>! Its going to be an awesome event featuring all things local and benefiting the TN Literacy Coalition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Happy Sunday! This week's post is the last of the Woodland Cupcakes series! In addition to the <a href="http://creativecrumbsnashville.blogspot.com/2012/08/woodland-cupcakes-part-1.html">owl cupcakes</a> and the <a href="http://creativecrumbsnashville.blogspot.com/2012/08/woodland-cupcakes-part-2.html">robin's egg cupcakes</a>, I also made some toadstool cupcakes. I think these were my favorite! They were just so cute!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Once those had set up a little bit, I put them together with a little bit of royal icing and added the spots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Aren't they great? </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It looked a little like some Mario video game had </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">descended</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> upon my kitchen with all the </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">toadstools</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> sitting on the table!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Once the cupcakes were done, I piped a swirl of green icing in top and put a couple of toadstools in each one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span>Creative Crumbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08827403867073847061noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862927181870277666.post-5978102199861953332012-08-19T13:26:00.000-05:002012-08-19T13:32:38.673-05:00Woodland Cupcakes ~ Part 2!<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy Sunday! I hope you're all enjoying this beautiful day as much as I am! We've had some wonderful weather in Nashville the last few days....so I'm sitting outside enjoying a delicious homemade lunch of arugula salad with crispy artichoke hearts, hard boiled eggs, and toasted pine nuts, drizzled with a lemon vinegrette....oh and french press coffee...oh so tasty! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I looked at several websites to find candy eggs, but I wasn't happy with any of them, so I decided to make them myself!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I started with fondant that I colored robin's egg blue, then hand-rolled about 50 tiny eggs. It took a little bit of practice to get them to look like eggs and not albino blueberries. The shape isn't as easy as it looks!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once the eggs had dried overnight, I used a paintbrush dipped in brown food coloring to "splatter" paint the eggs so they looked speckled. Of course, this speckled my table as well....thank goodness for mr. clean magic erasers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had seen several different ideas for making the nest....toasted coconut, piped icing, chow mein noodle haystacks, etc...but my favorite one used shaved chocolate...it looked rustic yet elegant at the same time - perfect for this baby shower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since I had to chop some chocolate for the cupcakes too, I decided to go ahead and chop all my chocolate:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And follow me on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/creativecrumbsnashville">Facebook</a> for a chance to win free cupcakes! Once I hit 100 followers on Facebook, I'll randomly pick one lucky follower to receive 1 dozen cupcakes. You can pick the flavor too...caramel macchiato, margartita, strawberry lemonade, or you can be creative and come up with your own specialty!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They were for a woodland themed baby shower. The client sent me a link to their Pinterest
board so I could get some ideas. There
were lots of owl designs, some acorns, burlap, twigs, toadstools, etc. It was the perfect mix of cute and rustic. But I didn’t want to just copy one of the cupcakes
design they had picked for inspiration, so I sketched a few ideas that I
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first ones I made were the owl cupcakes. I used a technique called “flooding.” Flooding is traditionally used to decorate
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I’ve suddenly gotten several requests for baby shower cakes!</span></div>
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one of my former brides. She wanted
something cute and girly, and the colors were purple and green (which happen to
by my favorite colors too!) So I sketched
a few designs: flowers, stripes, or polka dots with a little baby rattle and
bow on top.</span></div>
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weeks and about some up-coming events!
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an art gallery and home décor shop owned by my friends, David and Jessica. They were celebrating 32 years in
business! And you can’t celebrate
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paint brush, and a couple of dozen artist’s palette sugar cookies too. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For the cookies, I found a <a href="http://www.walnutcreekmetamora.com/cookie_cutters.htm">great distributor</a> for high quality cookies cutters. Look at these beauties...they are hardcore!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I had a special request several months ago for a strawberry cake. A quick Google search revealed lots of recipes, but almost all were made with cake mix and strawberry jello. These aren't necessarily bad, but I wanted a completely from-scratch cake using only fresh strawberries. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After a little more searching, I came across <a href="http://www.jasonandshawnda.com/foodiebride/archives/1088">this recipe </a>which looked quite promising. It is based off of the <a href="http://www.cooksillustrated.com/">Cook's Illustrated</a> white cake which I have used before, so I knew it had to be good. I was not disappointed! It tastes just like fresh strawberries! The texture is tender, but still holds together well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The best part about this recipe is how versatile it is! I've made layer cakes with both vanilla buttercream and cream cheese frosting. This weekend, I made strawberry cupcakes and topped them with lemon buttercream for a strawberry lemonade cupcake. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've also topped the cupcakes with a rum buttercream and sprinkled lime zest on top for the perfect strawberry daiquiri cupcake. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Strawberry goes well with so many other flavors...citrus, chocolate, vanilla, cream cheese....The possibilities are endless! Now that I've made you really hungry for strawberry cake, here's how I make it: (the full recipe is below)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I started by pureeing frozen strawberries until compltely smooth. I have used both fresh strawberries and frozen berries and both turned out equally as delicious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After combining the dry ingredients with the butter, I added the strawberry mixture. I think the batter is the most beautiful delicate pink color. If you want it a little more colorful, you can add a drop or two of red food coloring at this point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Approx. 8 oz strawberries, either fresh or frozen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1 3/4 cup sugar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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¾ cups of strawberry puree and return to the blender. Discard extra or use for another recipe. (I recommend pouring it over vanilla ice
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Happy baking (and eating!) As always, let me know if you have questions about any of my recipes. I love hearing from you! You can <a href="mailto:creativecrumbsnashville@gmail.com">email me</a> or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/creativecrumbsnashville">post on Facebook</a>.</span></div>
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living in Nashville my whole life, I’ve actually done a surprisingly few musically-themed
cakes. Aside from the very popular “<a href="http://creativecrumbsnashville.blogspot.com/2011/01/grammy-cake.html">Grammy Cake</a>” as everyone calls it now and <a href="http://creativecrumbsnashville.blogspot.com/2011/07/musical-grooms-cake.html">a groom’s cake</a>, this week’s featured cake is the only other one I’ve made.</span></div>
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who thinks she’s a rockstar! <span style="background-color: white;">Her mom wanted to get her a drum cake for her birthday. </span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">So, I sketched some ideas for her, and she
picked the full drum set!</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">(I found out
after I sent the sketches that the birthday girl HATES pink!</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">Oops!</span><span style="background-color: white;">
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my cakes will fit in a standard residential refrigerator, but this family had a
custom fridge built into their cabinets, and, unfortunately, the size was
different. So, it took a little, uh,
rearranging (and some removing of the shelves in the door) to get it to
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make a <i>pre</i>-wedding cake! When Brian proposed to my friend
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sculpted a small white buffalo out of fondant and added it to the cake along
with the hot pink fondant roses.</span></div>
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couple of years ago, I made a <a href="http://creativecrumbsnashville.blogspot.com/2011/03/peter-pan-birthday-cake.html">Peter Pan cake</a>….well the birthday girl is
apparently over Peter Pan, but she likes Snoopy now! So, this year the challenge was to make a
Snoopy cake.</span></div>
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exactly what they wanted. (Sketching is actually one of my favorite parts of the cake process. Its gets my creativity flowing and makes sure the client and I are talking about the same thing! No surprises on delivery that way!)</span></div>
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was about the size I needed. I used that as my guide for cutting the
cake. (Those extra cake scraps help with quality control....at least that's what I tell myself as I'm snacking on extra cake!)</span></div>
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other news….drum roll please……I now have a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Creative-Crumbs-Nashville/150076175064122">Facebook page</a>! Check it out and “like” my page for updates
and even more cake/catering/class pictures. If you’re on Twitter, you can <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/creativecrumbs">follow my Twitter page</a> too!</span></span></div>
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lately because I've been so busy with events! I truly LOVE
baking and cooking for others' special events! It’s always hard work, but
I feel so blessed to be able to do what I love!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wonderful opportunity to make the wedding cake for my sister's best
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Jared truly customized the whole day to reflect their love and respect for God
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fun! Anna was so prepared…she knew exactly
what colors and designs she wants…all I had to do was put it all together. Anna LOVES fresh flowers, so in addition to
pearls and piping, she wanted lots of flowers.
We decided to go with a buttercream cake, with swirls piped on the sides
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your new life together!</span></div>Creative Crumbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08827403867073847061noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862927181870277666.post-45865633674737829102012-05-20T17:57:00.002-05:002012-05-20T17:57:59.996-05:00Mother's Day Dinner<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Happy Sunday! I just finished a really busy cake week, and I'm so thankful for a lazy Sunday afternoon to cook just for myself. But this week's cakes were all a big hit, and I can't wait to share them with you starting next week! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Of course, they all wanted to know if I was going to blog about. So, my dad (who doesn't cook at all) decided he would take pictures of the whole process...so here's a picture of my dad taking a picture of me working...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The tartlets were actually quite simple to prepare...puffed pastry filled with a smoked blue cheese, local cherry preserves, and sliced almonds, then drizzled with a little bit of honey. The flavors blended together perfectly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">According to the cheesemonger at whole foods, this blue cheese was smoked over hazelnut shells and is the only smoked blue cheese made in America...interesting (at least I think it is, anyway). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">She volunteered to stir the risotto...bless her heart. Risotto is a deliciously creamy dish made with Arborio rice, but it must be stirred constantly. She joyfully stood at the stove and stirred the risotto for an hour, carefully adding the chicken stock a half cup at a time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And as we all know, I don't really use recipes, but I actually do have one for the tilapia!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Last weekend, I got to make another 25th wedding anniversary cake. It was a simple, classic buttercream cake decorated with fresh pansies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The flavors in the cake were just a fresh...a buttery almond cake, filled with tangy orange curd, and frosted with vanilla buttercream...delicious!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I actually tried/made up a new recipe for the cake. As the cake was baking (and I was peeking in the oven door, hoping that it would turn out since I made a double batch without testing it out first) I kept hearing my mom's voice in my head, "Never try out new recipes on clients." Oops. :) But, thankfully, the cake turned out beautifully!! It had a perfect crumbs, delicate texture, and tasted great! So, my gamble paid off this time, but I was a little worried for most of the baking time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Happy Sunday! I made this week's cake for a little girl I used to teach....well she might not want to me to refer to her as a "little girl"...she just turned 10 years old! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Happy Birthday, Elizabeth!</span></div>Creative Crumbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08827403867073847061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862927181870277666.post-89673949867660096342012-04-15T17:48:00.003-05:002012-04-15T17:51:19.789-05:00Spring Wedding: Jenna and Daniel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I got to cater Jenna and Daniel's rehearsal dinner and
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being part of their wedding celebrations!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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little while. You should check out her <a href="http://www.sarahmarieclicks.com/blog/2012/03/22/nashville-magic-jenna-and-daniels-wedding/">blog of Daniel and Jenna’s wedding</a>. She took
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On a side note: I absolutely LOVE Pam Baking Spray! Obviously I bake a lot of cakes, and it works better than greasing and flouring, lining with parchment paper, or traditional Pam. I have never had a cake stick to a pan using Pam Baking Spray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I hope you can see the amazing texture of the cake. It was soft and moist with a fine crumb, but it held together beautifully. The sour cream buttercream added a slightly tangy element that really complemented the toasted coconut and it kept the frosting from tasting too sweet.</span></div>
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½ cup of coconut milk, vanilla, and coconut extract and whisk thoroughly; set aside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the middle comes out clean. Allow the cakes to cool in their pans for 10 minutes.
Then turn the cakes out and place on a wire rack to cool completely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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baking tray. Pick up the cake and hold it on the palm of one hand over the
tray. Using the other hand scoop up the coconut and press it to the sides of
the cake. Continue with this process until the sides and top of the cake are covered. </span></div>
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<br /></div>Creative Crumbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08827403867073847061noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1862927181870277666.post-41760817936688168862012-03-25T16:29:00.000-05:002012-03-26T07:37:41.970-05:00St. Patrick's Day<br />
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Last Saturday was St. Patrick's Day and I made a delicious
Irish-inspired dinner. My brother and
sister came over for dinner and we ate Shepard's Pie, Irish Soda Bread, and St.
Patrick's Day Cupcakes while watching sappy Irish movies on the Hallmark
Channel! Good times!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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know, I know, big surprise right?! I'm
notorious for making up great recipes, but not writing them down, so I can't
ever make them again! I like to think of
it like a work of art....there's only on Mona Lisa, right? Everything else is just a copy.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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browned about a pound of ground beef, added some diced onion, carrot, and
garlic and cooked that for a few minutes until the carrots started to become
tender. Then I added some tomato paste,
Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper and cooked that down a little bit
more. I took the mixture off the heat
and added some frozen corn and peas. I
poured all of this into my favorite green casserole dish (perfect for the
occasion) and spread some mashed potatoes on top. Since everything was hot, it only took about
25 minutes in the oven and everything was bubbly and smelled delicious! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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recipe, but I couldn't find one anywhere that sounded right to me, so, you
guessed it....I made up my own. BUT,
this time, I wrote down what I did in case it turned out and I wanted to make
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combined. (There are few things worse
than biting into a piece of bread or a cookie and getting a lump of baking
soda....blah!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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streaks of egg remain. Since almond
flour doesn't contain any gluten, you can stir the mixture as much as you want
and it will never become tough like traditional biscuits, scones, or muffins
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45 minutes at 350 until deep golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the
middle of the loaf comes out clean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">While the Shepard's Pie and Irish Soda Bread were really
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I wanted to make a cupcake version of a popular St
Patrick's Day drink using Guinness, Irish Whiskey, and Bailey's Irish
Cream. So, I made a chocolate Guinness
cupcake, filled it with Irish Whiskey Ganache, and frosted it with Bailey's
buttercream. The result was superb! Perfectly balanced between the flavors....no
one component dominated the cupcake. And
bonus, these too were gluten-free!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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blended. Evenly divide between 12
muffins tins with paper liners. These
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Heat the cream until simmering and pour it over the chocolate. Let it sit for
about 2 minutes, then whisk until smooth and not lumps of chocolate
remain. Add the butter and whiskey and
stir until combined. Let the ganache cool until thick but not hard. This took about 20 minutes in the
fridge. Once ganache is firm, use a
small spoon or cookie scoop and place about 2 tsp of ganache in the center of
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until smooth. Then alternately add
powdered sugar and Bailey's. Once all
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The recipe sounds like a lot a work, and it does take
some time, but the ganache and buttercream can be prepared while the cupcakes
bake and cool. So it didn't take as long
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creativecrumbsnashville@gmail.com with questions, suggestions, or to place an
order. You can follow me on twitter
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Happy Su.....I mean Monday! I made some delicious strawberry lemonade cupcakes yesterday to take to a picnic lunch with some friends. As I was taking pictures of the cupcakes, I realized that I haven't posted any cupcakes recipes yet! I was really surprised because I LOVE to make cupcakes! Somehow they just always get eaten before I can get any shots of them! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is my go-to cupcake recipe because it is so easy to prepare and can be customized to make many different flavors. Last week, I added lime zest and lime juice and frosted the cupcakes with tequila buttercream and a sprinkle of flaked sea salt to make a fabulous margarita cupcake for Mexican night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Basically, you just throw everything in the mixer bowl together....no creaming the butter and sugar first or adding the flour and milk alternately. Just put everything in the bowl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Then fill your cupcakes liners. The recipe makes exactly 12 cupcakes, so you can just divide the batter evenly and you don't have to worry about them overflowing during baking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These cupcakes are definitely the perfect spring and summer treat....a moist lemony cupcake speckled with fresh lemon zest, topped with swirls of sweet strawberry buttercream....Mmmm.... </span></div>
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zest in bowl of standing mixer. Add in
butter, sour cream, egg, egg yolks, and lemon juice. Beat at low speed until combined, about 15
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