Cakebee Cupcakes for Sale!

Latest buzzzz this past weekend, I did a trial sale of cupcakes at my friend Toan's Viet Noodle soup restaurant. I've been really busy so I haven't been able to update the blog as often but please do continue to check back for the latest baking update! I can't help it, I'm a one woman show...for now :)

I enlisted the help of my friend Sandy to cut out the special Toan Soup red bowl logos made out of fondant. She also help me decorate the containers while I baked and frosted all the cupcakes ^_^
Here are 50 cupcakes with 10 different flavors all packed up ready for delivery to Toan's place :)


Thanks to all those lovely customers who supported my cupcakes sales at Toan's Restaurant! I really appreciate it. I know that Viet noodle soup and cupcakes may not seem like the best combination. But I really appreciate an outlet to be able to sell my cupcakes :)

I am really happy that I was able to feature my special Bumblebee Cupcake! Yay! Its a moist vanilla bean cupcake dipped in rich chocolate ganache with a caramel swirl topped with a sugar bee! :D


I'll do another cupcake sale for the last weekend of April from Thursday- Saturday. Please support my cupcake sales in Silver Spring, MD at Toan's restaurant, help support the dreams of a struggling bakist (baker +artist)!

As for now... eat sweets and bee merry :)

Along came a Spider!

Halloween is such a great holiday........
to be EERIE with food.....


Here are some spooky chocolate cupcakes I made all from scratch. I made the cupcakes with Orange colored Vanilla Buttercream and topped it with creepy edible spiders! I made the spiders out of marzipan that was tinted with black food coloring.

Don't they look real...OOoOoooOOOoo

Of course..must use the cute halloween cupcake liners :)

The recipe below is a modified Chocolate Cake recipe from Cake Love. I love it because the chocolate cake is dense in taste, but is light in texture and tastes chocolately.

Chocolate Pound Cake
adapted from Cake Love

Dry Ingredients
2 cups - Unbleached AP Flour 10 oz
½ c. + 2 tbsps. - Unsweetened Cocoa Powder 2 oz
3 tbsp – dry instant chocolate pudding mix
2 tbsp. - Turbinado Sugar
1 tsp. - Potato Starch
¼ tsp. - Vanilla Powder
¾ tsp. -Salt .

Liquid Ingredients
½ c. Sour Cream
¾ c. Whole Milk
Brandy 2 T. (*can substitute Godiva Chocolate Liqueur)
1 tsp. - Vanilla Extract

Creaming Ingredients
1 & 1/2 stick - Unsalted butter, at room temperature
3 cups - Sugar 24 oz
4 Large Eggs
Yolks, 3

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine all the dry ingredients and whisk to incorporate.

In a separate bowl combine all the liquid ingredients and whisk to combine.

In a bowl of a standing mixer all the butter and sugar and cream together on the lowest speed for 2-3 minutes. Add the vanilla beans to the mixture, with the mixer on the lowest speed, at the eggs one at a time followed by the yolk, fully incorporating after each addition. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.

Add the dry ingredients alternatively with the liquid mixture in 3-5 additions, beginning and ending with the dry mixture. Move swiftly to avoid over mixing the batter. Scrape down the bowl and then mix for 20 seconds to fully incorporate.


Spray your pan (loaf, bundt,etc) with nonstick spray and then fill 3/4 of the way up with the batter.

Bakes a 12 cup bundt cake for 50-55 minutes and smaller muffin size loafs or cupcakes for about 15 minutes.

I used homemade Halloween Orange Buttercream with a Round size tip to pipe frosting on the cupcakes and then the spiders crawled on there themselves :)

Tis not a truffle

Here are some more pictures! By request of my wonderful supporting friends, I decided to add pictures of this Cupcake Bites recipe.
OH YEAH!









These were my pictures of when I had already dipped the bottoms of the cupcakes and then I inserted the lollipop sticks. Then I placed them into the refrigerator for them to chill.










Hooray! The completion of my FIRST one..hehe!

**Tip - to speed up the process place them in the freezer for about 20 minutes, then continue to dipping the tips in pink chocolate or white chocolate.





















Thanks to my lovely friends for supporting the "Dreams of a Aspiring Bakist" ~~


Keep posted on more things to come.Email me if you would like to get your hands on any of these delectables :)