Gobble gobble!

Turkey cupcake tutorial, originally uploaded by kristin_a.

So hey check this out! My turkey cupcake tutorial was featured on Cake Spy. THE Cake Spy!

Check it out here

Woo hoo!

It's a crazy kinda whrrl

So, if you haven't heard of whrrl yet let me break it down for ya.

Whrrl is like tweeting a story with pictures. Although you don't HAVE to have pictures but everyone likes pictures. So when you twitter, you only get 140 characters to say something. And sometimes people are following thousands so by the time you continue your story in your next tweet (3 seconds later), your little ole tweet is waaay down at the bottom and people forget you were there. So here comes Whrrl. You can tell a story in 140 character frames and add pictures or links and each frame follows the next. And then you can post your story on twitter and facebook and folks interested can click over and read your whole story, make comments and just be SUPER!

So here is my latest whrrl about Kogi BBQ. We were on our way home from visiting a sweet little angel baby named Quinn in San Diego and were trying to make a comedy show from Kevin Pollack but got stuck in traffic thanks to an accident so we had to miss it. But then I looked on twitter and saw the Kogi was going to be in Placentia (near my neck of the woods) so we high tailed it off the freeway and were on our way.

The food was DELICIOUS. Try the sliders for sure. The burrito is well worth the $5, full of meat and cheese and kim chi and something else. Potato? I wasn't sure. Who cares! It was so good. The truck pulled up next to The Bruery which I definitely plan on checking out sometime soon.

More stories at Kogi BBQ

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When you are done reading that, you can read my whrrl about the new Target in Brea.

Thank you Angry Julie and Suz Broughton for teaching me about Whrrl!!

New direction

I've decided that I am going to branch out a bit on this blog and talk about some stuff other than baking (although sometimes it all comes back to baking). Anyway, I hope you don't mind and that you still read along. I thought about starting another blog but who am I kidding? I can barely keep one going! And since my business is kinda leveling off right now, I think it's a good time to introduce myself a little more here.

So while I still plan to blog about my business and post pictures of my creations, I am also going to talk about things I like to use in the kitchen, stuff I do around Orange County, projects I am working on and spotlight other women and small businesses.

Thanks for sticking around!

BOO!

Happy Halloween!!

I made these cupcakes and took them to work. Thankfully the company is small and I only had to make 6 dozen to have enough for everyone with some extras.

I'm sad Halloween is over. But I am looking forward to coming up with ideas for Thanksgiving and Christmas. They just won't be as much fun as Bloody Red Velvet, Moldy Chocolate and Black Soul Vanilla.









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Hope you had a great Halloween!

Halloween Cupcakes 2009

Halloween Cupcakes, originally uploaded by kristin_a.

Happy Halloween! Sorry I've been lax in my updates.

Here are some pictures from an order I received for a party down in San Diego last weekend. The order was for 7 dozen in 3 flavors. The party had 40 RSVPs. At 7 dozen, that gave each guest 2 cupcakes.

And then the cupcakes were accompanied by a giant cupcake topped with a spider web and spiders and dripping cream cheese buttercream. Ewwww.

These were really fun to make. I love baking during holidays because you really have an opportunity to make something fun and different and everyone goes along.

Hope you have a Happy Halloween!

Weddings wedding weddings!

Bowers Museum Wedding, originally uploaded by kristin_a.

Last weekend was a BIG one. Big as in 2 weddings. Big as in 38 dozen mini cupcakes plus 4 dozen regular cupcakes PLUS two cutting cakes. It was exhausting. And I was under the weather. Oy.

But everything went great! I was on time even though one event was in Irvine and the other was 30 mins later in Santa Ana. The traffic gods were on my side.

I am taking 2 days off this weekend to make a special trip to Las Vegas to visit Kari and her crew at Retro Bakery AND meet IN PERSON Carrie Fields from Fields of Cake. Folks - Carrie is not a only a baker, she is an ARTIST. Check out her work. It's humbling. I felt a wave of stress peel off me as I squealed on the phone with her this afternoon on my way home from work.

We are planning on a baykah's (as Kari would say it) night out tomorrow at Serendipity 3 by Caesars Palace. CANNOT WAIT. The drive tomorrow is going to be longest!

I cannot stress enough how important blogging and twittering have been for me in this baking adventure. I've found that having confidants in the same biz locally is not possible. Too much cattiness and too much competitiveness to really help each other. So through twitter and blogging, I've been able to connect with women who hold the same interests as me from all over the US and even Canada (Hi Clever Cupcakes and Sugar Baking!). One day I hope that we can all meet. Maybe hold our own form of a BlogHer. Maybe we'll call it BakHer.

Today is your birthday, dahnah dahnah, dahnah

Lots of birthday orders last weekend -



This was for a little girls 1st birthday. The parents requested this as her smash cake. I hope she had fun!



Birthday mini cupcakes for a girls 8th from her aunt



More mini cupcakes. There were from a daughter to her mom. There were 4 doz mini's total but I forgot to take a picture of the other dozen. You can't see from the picture but I made embossed fondant discs accented with sugar pearls and disco dust. The lettering was also brushed with disco dust.

Lots of orders for mini cupcakes lately. And this weekend, I have two weddings on Saturday where one is for 450 mini cupcakes. Yowza.

I also had a tasting on Sunday for a little girl's upcoming 4th birthday.



The little girl was a DOLL. Her favorite was the groovy with pink buttercream. And her mom liked the fauxstess. The birthday party theme is going to be Jasmine from Aladdin. I am going to make a giant cupcake that will look like a tower on an arabian castle and accompanying mini cupcakes with Jasmine crowns.