Cake #1 : Blue-Velvet

     Had a great time at the baby shower today and can't wait for the new addition to the family. So, the first cake...and cupcakes of this blog; The Blue-Velvet baby carriage cake and the Baby-Blue-Velvet cupcakes. Now, people, these are not made overnight...oh, wait. yes they are. I mean that literally. My mom, my sister, and I stayed up till about 11:30, the night before, to make these desserts.
     I know we've all heard of "Red-Velvet" but have you ever heard of "Blue-Velvet"? That kind of sounds disgusting, doesn't it? Well, once you see these cupcakes, you won't want to stop eating them. The recipe for these desserts can be found online easily, but if you want the ones made right you've got to have my mom's. Why? Because, like anyone, she has her secrets.

     Well, starting from scratch isn't an easy way to go but it's always the best way to go...if you can cook or you're my mom. It requires time, patience, and your three children locked away under the spell of TV. So, after making the first two batches of cupcakes, realizing that we are out of our food coloring since it took the whole container of Sapphire from the "Charm City Cakes: Color Gels" container to make one dozen of the cupcakes(plus a little bit of violet food coloring to even out the blue) we had to run around to Michael's Craft Store to get the two other containers we needed.

     Now, i don't know if anyone that was there at the Baby Shower noticed anything...special about the cupcakes? Maybe, a special surprise hidden inside of the cupcake? Well, if you did, you would've noticed that there was a filling, but WHAT TYPE of filling was it, was the question. Well, the very special, very favorite of my mom's inside the cupcake is her all-famous cream cheese filling. Juliana if you see this, you were right :)



Cake before it was frosted



     After finishing the two batches of cupcakes, its onto the cake. Doesn't that just look like a hard cake to frost. Well, she did it for our other Aunt, Kathleen's baby shower for our little cousin David so she could certainly do it again. The finished work of art was so beautiful that our mother-to-be was feeling guilty that she was the one to cut it. But, like i mentioned before, she does it for the love and fun of doing it, not for a profit, but if you need a cake for any occasion, give her a call.
    So, the cake and cupcakes ended up beautifully. The cupcakes, filled with her favorite cream cheese filling, frosted with her signature butter cream frosting, and topped with little blue ball sprinkled, and miniature bottles and the cake frosted with a dazzling white butter cream frosting and outlined in sapphire blue butter cream frosting.
     For all of you at the shower, we hope you enjoyed the cake and appreciated the effort that went into it. Until next week!


The finished, frosted products