Baby Shower Cupcakes: Jungle Animals

Back from the dead, never fear!  It's been over a week since we've posted, we apologize but we've been enjoying this gorgeous weather.  Autumn is probably our favorite time of year, and since we don't have allergies we don't have to worry about all the leaves and stuff.  Sorry allergy sufferers, that's not us.

To update you on our lives a little bit, this past weekend we had the chance to make some cupcakes for a baby shower.  A friend of ours was attending the baby shower, and admitted it was for a coworker.  The friend works at a vet clinic in Pittsburgh, so automatically an animal theme came into play.  Animal themes are already a solid baby shower theme, but when everyone in attendance works at the same vet clinic we're pretty sure it's a mandatory theme.

We have a love/hate with fondit, because it has such a wonderful look on cakes and cupcakes, but eats up so much of your time.  For example, creating 30 animals for 30 individual cupcakes took us 2 1/2 hours to complete.  There are so many details that have to be accounted for, so many tools to be used, and if the results weren't so breathtakingly awesome we'd probably chuck the lot.  But you have to admit, these animals couldn't be any cuter if they tried!

What mommy-to-be wouldn't love these?

Happy to have been given the opportunity to make some delicious treats for a fun weekend shower.  Now on to the next recipe!

Have a fantastic week, everyone.  Buccos finally have a winning season!! :-)

Sweet Relief's Back (Alright!)

We need a little BSB to set the tone for this post...

(sorry if you a) weren't a preteen/teenager during the 90s boy band craze or b) have no idea who BSB even is...we grew up on these musical gems, you're gonna have to deal with it)

GUYS, WE'RE BACK!!!!

We had a FANTASTIC vacation with our friends and family.  For those of you who haven't stalked us religiously (we'll forgive you this one time) we headed to Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Wildwood NJ for a nice, relaxing, well-deserved break.  We rocked out to some 90s boy band music (including the gem above), patched up the crack in the Liberty Bell (wait, no, that was Davy Crockett), and relaxed on the wonderful sandy beaches of New Jersey with a book in hand.  Oh yeah, we celebrated our birthday too!  Woot!  Best of all, the ovens stayed off, and we simply recovered from a very busy past few weeks.

Little sister Allison is a really good driver through the streets of Philadelphia

As wonderful as the break was, though, we are happy to get back into the kitchens and to get baking.  What's that saying, absence makes the heart grow fonder?  Well, we definitely missed all the baking, decorating, and designing of all our favorite baked goods.  No matter how crazy everything in the kitchen might get at times, it's a familiar crazy, something we're used to and can manage.  Trying to negotiate the streets of Philadelphia during rush hour...??  Not so easy to deal with.

In the coming two weeks we have two big orders heading out, another cookie cake for a birthday (you guys are really loving your cookie cakes this summer!) and some cute themed cupcakes for a baby shower.  On top of that, we received some new birthday presents that we're eager to try out too...from pans, to cookie cutters, we're going to be playing around with some fun flavors.

Until then, have a great weekend, Pittsburgh!  We are PSYCHED for the beautiful weather that will be rolling through the city this weekend.  Sounds like the perfect pool weekend!