Our team (Starbucks) had a bake sale at the shop this morning to raise money for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.
I love any excuse to bake lots of pretty things! These are my cupcakes: the pink ones are vanilla bean cupcakes with strawberry swiss meringue buttercream, and the white one is a vanilla rose cupcake with rosewater and cardamom swiss meringue buttercream.Yup.
The larger batches. So pretty! I think these are probably the most attractive little cakes of my cupcake career thus far.
All my loot! From left: Lavender vanilla bean cookies, vanilla strawberry cupcakes, forelle pear and almond tartlets, orange and thyme brownies, vanilla rose cardamom cupcakes, and blueberry oat cookies.I was so tired this morning! My lobstah (Randi Hadder) is in town for the weekend for Todd's going away bash, and she and I and some ladies from work went out to 600 South last night for drinks and tapas. I finally had an excuse to wear my sparkly blue shirt and blue suede heels. By the time I got home it was past 12, and I still had pear tartlets to bake! It was completely worth it though, we raised over $500 in just 4 hours today selling goodies to the masses!
Me and Danielle. I met Danielle years ago through a mutual friend while living in Germany. She's in the AF too, and just got stationed here last month.Small world.
Small world full of cute cakes, to boot.
Hi! I just stumbled across your blog as I was desperately in desire for rose-cardamom cupcakes! I love the ones they serve at Native Foods and was trying to find a similar recipe.
ReplyDeleteYour "vanilla rose cupcake with rosewater and cardamom swiss meringue buttercream" looks amazing! Could you please post the recipe? I would of course give you credit and link to your site if I ever share it with friends.
Longing for Rose Cardamom Cupcakes,
Bridget :)
PS. Your coconut saffron recipe looks amazing also!