Happy Birthday, Blog!

Today is the 1-year-anniversary of the blog. We've had a really fun time blogging about our bakes, and we promise that the blog will only get better from here on out!!

As a birthday present, we are doing a free cupcake giveaway... FOLLOW THE BLOG in the next couple of days, and we will bring free cupcakes to your house if you are in the Larchmont/ Mamaroneck area. Yay!!

Love,

the cupcake manifesto

Cupcakes for Delaney

These cupcakes were made in March 2010 for a very special cause. Emilie babysits for a family who lost their baby girl, Delaney, in December of 2009. She was only 7 weeks, but was able to save a life because her parents donated her organs. In her memory, Delaney's family decided they would walk in a March of Dimes walk under the team name "Delaney's Dreamers" to keep her name and story going. The team raised a record-breaking over $50,000, making them the #1 team in the country!! But where do cupcakes fit into this? Emilie, Christina, and Irma were all going to walk, and so they baked and sold cupcakes to friends and family and raised a good amount of money to contribute. We weren't able to get the best pictures of the cupcakes, but they tasted delicious and were for a good cause, too!

The flavors were Chocolate and French Vanilla, and the frosting was a velvety marshmallow fluff frosting. We'll try to post recipes soon!

To learn more about Delaney, check out her facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=410048545579

Cupcake Flashback!

Although this blog is new, our love for cupcakes certainly is not! These are cupcakes we made for a cousin's baby shower back in January. The theme was farm animals, so we made some pig, cow, duck, and lamb themed cupcakes, complete with a fish pond and of course, the baby. The flavors were chocolate and vanilla with buttercream frosting, and we used an assortment of snackfoods and candies to decorate, including m&ms, marshmallows, goldfish, fruit roll-ups, toasted coconut (for the ducks), and, yes, even a piece of spaghetti.

First Post: World Cup(cakes) !!!

In honor of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Finale being tomorrow, we decided to bake a special batch of World Cup-themed cupcakes! We decorated some with the flags of Spain and Holland, and on others we covered with green-colored coconut as grass and experimented in making "cake balls" to be the new design of the FIFA soccer ball. The cake balls were a mixture of cake and frosting balled up in a white chocolate shell, with vanilla frosting on top for decoration.

We made one cupcake featuring Paul, the "oracle octopus" that has predicted the outcome of many games in this year's Cup, never having being wrong yet. Last but not least, we made an extra special ¡GOL! cake featuring the green coconut grass, and another cake ball inside a white chocolate soccer goal.

Flavors of cake/ frosting: homemade funfetti cake, vanilla frosting