Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Here are some cupcakes I made to celebrate New Year's Eve last night. I used the Trader Joe's Yellow Cake Mix, which is delicious, homemade buttercream frosting, and Duff's Chocolate Fondant for the toppings, cut with the Cricut Cake Mini. The letters and shapes are from the Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake cartridge. I also made cupcake wrappers from the Easter cartridge, but you can't really see them here.

Cricut Cake Mini: Cupcakes!

Today two of my friends came over so that we could make cupcakes for a coworker's baby shower. Our third friend, who is the baker among us, was not able to join us at the last minute, so our frosting is not the prettiest. However, we used the Cake to cut flowers out of Duff's Chocolate and Pink Buttercream fondant, using Walk in My Garden. The cupcake wrappers are from the Easter cartridge, but I hid the little holes, using my Gypsy. We had to make 4 dozen, so we had to keep it simple!

Cricut Cake Mini!

I got my Cake Mini this morning! I went to Joann's about 45 minutes before they opened and was fifth in line. Yeah! My big bargain was the Cricut Cake Tool Kit that I got at Michael's last night. I brought it up to the register to see if they would take a coupon for it, even though it is a Cricut item. The saleswoman didn't think it would, but she scanned it anyway. I couldn't use the coupon, but it turned out to be on clearance for $5.99 (usually $30)!

Anyway, I couldn't wait to give the Cake a try, so I made some cookies today. I was wiped out after making a midnight order at walmart.com and then the Joann's run, so I kept it simple. For the cookies, I used a Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix. It cut really well! I have 3 mats, and I used all of them. For the mats, after putting down the shortening and rolling out the dough, I popped them in the freezer for 10 minutes before running them through the Cake.

The fondant is Duff's from Michael's. It's buttercream and I'd heard it was supposed to taste good, but I really don't like it too much. Maybe it will harden overnight and taste better? Anyway, it was pretty easy to work with and cut well too. All of the cuts are from Cake Basics. The cookies are 3 1/2", and I cut the fondant at 1 1/4" to 2".