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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Be Mine

valentine's day
valentine's day

What a long overdue post! I'm sorry I haven't put up anything in a while, but it's mainly because of how much baking I was doing, actually. I had an exciting (and a tad bit lucrative) baking event for Valentine's Day! I offered freshly baked and valentine-ly decorated cupcakes for this special holiday. And I must say it was quite a success! I don't think I would be able to do it all the time with my busy schedule, but it was a great learning experience!

valentine's day
valentine's day

I had quite a few orders and it was really exciting to bake for lots of people. It was a lot of pressure too, I guess, because it was a special gift to their special someone. I think it went well though-- I got many raves of how much they loved it, so phew! Thanks!! I don't think I need to explain much about the cupcakes other than that I offered two kinds of cupcakes: luscious red velvet with cream cheese frosting, and cutesy vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. Red velvet was definitely a hit: it was everyone's favorite. It might be the popping colour, but I'm sure it's mostly because of the cream cheese frosting. You can never go wrong with cream cheese frosting, never.

valentine's day
valentine's day

I also gave people three options for the decoration: homemade brownie hearts, chocolate truffles (I ending up buying fererro rocher) and sprinkles. People mostly ordered the brownie hearts, which I think was an obvious choice -- they were simply adorable on top of the cupcakes!

valentine's day
valentine's day

Alritey, so here's my share of the romance: this was a very special Valentine's Day for me, other than the baking job! You see, I had a Valentine of my very own this year! :D I must say, it was definitely a fine pay off from all the hard work all weekend, only to be wooed by a wonderful boy afterwards. Heehee. (Sorry for the mushiness, but hey, tis the season to by cheesy!) Guess what I got while I was baking ferociously and with much stress in the morning? I was delightfully surprised with beauuuutiful long stem roses delivered to my door! And that was VERY nice, to say the least.

valentine's day

Well I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day. I know we all know that it's probably just some day made up for businesses to make some money and to break the pockets of the male gender, but I must say.. it is quite nice to celebrate having someone be mine. :)

valentine's day

11 comments:

  1. no words are needed for this post. pictures say it all :) mMmMMMmmm...

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  2. Beautiful!!! I have been reading your blog for a bit now but have never commented, but I had to after seeing this. I have to ask...where do you find those boxes? And, are these mini-cupcakes or regular size cupcakes?

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  3. Sarah, everything looks so gorgeous and pretty. I wish you lived closer to me so we could have a bake-a-thon and you could teach me how to decorate cupcakes better.

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  4. heehee
    dear jenny: i hope you enjoyed them! you didn't eat them all for yourself, did you?
    hiya anonymous: thanks for dropping by! those boxes are wonderful aren't they? i actually asked someone from their blog too, i'm sure that company is doing well from our blogs. :P their website is brp box shop. they are fantastic boxes.. i get compliments on them all the time! oh and these were just regular sized cupcakes.. i think they just look smaller from the photos.
    hey amanda: really? i think your stuff is gorgeous! my stuff is quite basic. bake-a-thon sounds great tho! i have much to learn from you. :)

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  5. wow - you are so talented. those cupcakes look truly delicious. And what a great payoff, someone to celebrate with...ahh fantastic

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  6. woooooooooow!
    ou are talented indeed. great job!
    Happy Baking

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  7. What beautiful cupcakes. I love the brownie topping, such a sweet idea :)

    Katie xox

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  8. hey sarah!

    my name's audrey and i go to waterloo.. i think we've met a couple times and we went to langstaff together?? ahaha creepy much? but anyways

    just wanted to say that i love your blog and i had a pretty crappy day today but i saw all your delicious stuff and it made me smile so much ^^

    thanks!!

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  9. These are the absolutely the sweetest cupcakes. So pretty!

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  10. seen through tastespotting..... amazing images!!! wow, great work
    So delicius, sure I'll try to do..

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  11. How gorgeous are those! And the roses too, of course :)

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