Valentines Day is Coming!

I know I know its only January 11th, but I get super excited for Valentines day. . .
all the beautiful pink and red colors floating about in the stores and the yummy treats and flowers that go hand and hand with Valentines day get me all smiley:)

Like many people including myself, we don't know what to get our special someone's for this holiday. Its not like Christmas where you can justify spending a couple of hundred dollars on a person. Most of us are looking for a special sweet treat to surprise our loved ones with! What better gift than a bouquet of Valentines day cake pops or a package of decadent cupcakes!!

I'm running a small special with the code: Valentines12, when ordering mention this code and you will receive 10% off any orders of $25 or more! Orders may be placed via email at kellsey.ball.08@gmail.com!

Here are some hearty valentines cake pops I did a while back!

my cupcake creation. . .

So I'm sure many people have seen the popular show Cake Boss!!
Since my fiance and I don't believe in paying an ungodly amount of $$$$ for cable, especially when every time you turn the tv on there is NOTHING on to watch anyways, we have been watching cake boss on netflix!
Being a baker I love the show, I love his creations and the drama of the show. My fiance on the other hand hates that they push the dramaticness in the show and hates that his big huge italian family is SOOOO loud and obnoxious. He also hates that they use rice crispy treats to build some of the cakes because in his eyes its not a real cake if you aren't using all elements of cake!! Its acutally hard to watch the show with him because of all his bratty comments :) But I still love him, he just doesn't appreciate the true art of dramatic television hehe!!
Well in a few of the past episodes they have made cakes filled with cannoli filling and have made cannolis for certain special occasions. Well I have never had a cannoli in my life, but boy did they look delcious. Every episode that has this creamy cannoli goodness filling cakes makes my pregnant body drool!
So tonight while I was sitting there itching to bake something and trying to come up with something different that I haven't seen before, I thought YESS thats it cannoli cupcakes!!
So here they are I started with a white chocolate cupcake, filled it with this cannoli goodness and topped it off with a creamy whippy chocolate frosting!

Yum I love the cannoli filling. its not too sweet and its light and creamy!!

Love to hear your feedback and comments!!
Tata for now, until my next baking experience:)

The New Year

2012 huh. Crazy right?
I am excited to see what the New Year will bring
I will be bringing my first baby into the world,
I have many goals set that I am going to acheive
& I'm sure the year will bring along many good and bad suprises!!

As you know I am having a baby boy:)
My wonderful Fiance suprised me today,
I have been dreading painting the baby room,
so today we got our old clothes on to paint
and my fiance opened the door and it was all done!!
I was so HAPPY!!! It looks perfect, we still have to add a few
final touches and we have a couple of really cute jungle vinyls
to decorate the walls but here it is.

I haven't had much time for baking the last few days but hopefully soon, and when it happens ill be sure to post some yummy pictures!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Years!

Perfect Holiday breakfast

So pinterest has taken over my life. . . Its a love hate relationship, I love the ideas on there, but hate that looking through all the pages takes up my WHOLE day ;)
So I saw an idea for cinnamon roll cupcakes and decided to create my own recipe for it and can I say they turned out delicious! I Love sweet things in the morning so I think that this would make the perfect holiday morning treat.
It may not have all the nutritious values we need but hey its yummy right?
Here are my results:

Fresh Outta the oven, and I must say the buttery cinnamon smell was amazinggggg

all frosted up with cream cheese frosting!! Ohh the goodness :)

So tomorrow I go in for my 18 wk baby check up then two weeks from that we get to find out the gender :)))) YAY
So i will be doing a fun baking project for that to announce to everyone what we are having, so be on the look out!!
I think we are having a baby boy, due to the fact that I'm as big as another little lady I work with, who is 7 months along and having a baby girl.

The beginning of the Holiday Season Has Begun. . .

Christmas music on the radio, walking into the stores and smelling cinnamon and pine cones and seeing all the beautiful happy Christmas decorations. . . This is my FAVORITE time of the year. My tummy tickles around all the excitement and hustle and bustle of the season! I hope everyone is enjoying this as much as I am.
I thought that I would share with you what I have been up to the past few weeks since I haven't talked to you in so long! I had my first big cupcake order for a breaking dawn party!! I had so much fun being in the kitchen day and night baking cupcakes and decorating them. Here are my end results:

310 Cupcakes all finished.

vanilla cupcakes with black sparklies!

Chocolate cupcakes with red swirls...

red velvet cupcakes

I was proud of my first order :) and it made it all worth it when I received compliments via text and facebook on them!!

Have a wonderful day full of lots of holiday cheer!

My Life as of lately and Halloween Special

It has been awhile since I have been on and a lot has been happening since then!!!
First off The big news is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
My fiance and I are having a baby :) We are so excited for this little blessing in our lives. I'm about 3months along now and loving it!!
Here is our baby's first ultrasound it was such a realistic shock to see the lil bean inside me I LOVED it! And the look on my fiance's face when it popped up on the screen was priceless I cried a little!!

So thats my big news :) I am also running a little Halloween special on my PoPs.
One dozen PoPs arranged in a Halloween arrangement for $15.00!! Great deal!!
Please order via the link to the right side of this blog page:)
Thanks for reading and i will post more soon!!

National Smore's Day

Well Yesterday was national smore's day :)
YUM such a great day!!
I decided to create a different treat that
still incorporated s'mores
and this is what I came up with...
S'mores cupcakes!!!

This is a dark bittersweet choc cupcake
with crushed graham cracker in the cupcake
coated with choc ganache and topped with a
whipped marshmallow meringue and garnished
with some more crushed graham crackers!!
The best part of these is that they are just
as messy oooey gooey as the real smores.
That was half the fun of watching all of my
co workers eat these :0

Well I hope you all celebrated national smores day with an ooey gooey sticky treat if you didn't Shame Shame on you. You have to take advantage of these silly little holidays that give us an excuse to eat some yummy fatty treats right???