Easter 2011

I have a big family, and we love to get together to celebrate holidays and birthdays. Unfortunately, as all of my cousins get older, schedules get harder to coordinate and we often end up lumping a bunch of celebrations together, so we don't leave anyone out! That's exactly what happened with Easter this year! We celebrated Mother's Day, my Grandma Dee's 75th birthday and three of my cousin's birthdays along with Easter! I made cupcakes and a cake to bring to the big event.

These are lemon cupcakes with homemade lemon curd filling and raspberry swiss meringue buttercream made with fresh raspberries, YUM!

Knowing that I cannot show up to a family event without something chocolate, I made a devils food chocolate cake with chocolate mousse filling and vanilla swiss meringue buttercream frosting. I wanted the cake to be special since my Grandma turned 75 and I think it came out perfect, she LOVES roses!

Sandy's Retirement

I just recently started a new job for a wonderful company that has a lot of longevity among it's employees. On Friday April 1st, two longtime employees retired. Sandy worked at my sister's branch and they asked me to make cupcakes for her retirement party. Sandy was with the company for 31 years, so I was honored to be a part of her celebration!

In order to keep things simple and classy we went with a basic devils food chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and a basic vanilla cake with white chocolate cream cheese frosting. They were delicious!

Thanks for letting me be a part of your retirement party Sandy! Best wishes for lots of fun and relaxation, you will be missed!