Casket Birthday Cake and Cupcakes

I had a busy cake week this past week. I had a Birthday cake to make and I decided to make a casket cake since it was for someone who owned a funeral home, and I thought it was absolutely perfect! The cake was a 5 day process. Day 1 I started gum paste flowers for decor and I spent 2 days on the flowers. On the 3rd day I baked the cake, day 4 I assembled and carved the cake out, and finally day 5 I covered and decorated the cake.

Step 1 I covered the cake with chocolate satin ice fondant

Step 2 I added indents and handles which are on real caskets

Step 3 I put the gum paste flowers on and secured them with royal icing

Step 4 I added the fondant Happy Birthday plate

Not only did I make this casket cake this week, I also did some cute girly birthday cupcakes to go along with the cake with the matching gum paste flowers.

Holiday Photo Shoot

My friend Hannah took some amazing pictures of some of my holiday treats. I made holiday gift boxes as presents which were filled with whoopie pies, meringues, gingerbread men, chocolate dipped pretzels, and peppermint chocolates and cupcakes.

Wedding Cupcakes

I had done a wedding a few months ago, and I finally got pictures back from the cupcakes I had made and wanted to share them with you!

Lemon Chiffon with Swiss Meringue and Chocolate with Chocolate Ganache

Whoopie Me

I am excited to announce my new business Whoopie Me!

Whoopie Me has a huge variety of Whoopie Pies made to order. I cater to parties, weddings, and for individual consumption! I am happy to do any special requests and overnight delivery is also possible. Please visit my website at www.whoopieme.com and email me at beth@whoopieme.com.

I am doing my first festival next Saturday December 4th Winterfest at Sandy Spring Friends School. Please stop by for gift baskets, gift cards and lots of whoopies!

Makin' some Whoopie :)

I made my first whoopie pies the other day, and they were such a huge hit with my friends and family, I thought I'd give it another shot! Today I made 4 different kinds of WHOOPIES--Chocolate vanilla cream, Chocolate peanut butter cream, Banana vanilla cream, and Banana peanut butter cream.

I am going to PA tomorrow to visit one of my bestest friends from college, so I thought I'd bring her some treats :) I also had an order for some whoopies, so I got to kill two birds with one stone!

The recipes for these whoopie pies can be found under my Sweet Treats page!

Chocolate with Peanut Butter Cream

Banana Vanilla Cream and Chocolate Vanilla Cream

Banana Peanut Butter Cream

For a customer--held 8 whoopie pies

For my friend Sam :)

My Cousin trying to decide which whoopie to dive into.....

...Makin Whoopie to both!!

Recipe of the day--Classic Whoopie Pies!

I have never made a whoopie pie before so I thought I'd give it a shot today! They are incredibly easy to make! I started off the day planning on making a chocolate peanut butter whoopie pie, but my little cousin came down to help me and hates peanut butter so I changed it to a vanilla fluff filling. From start to finish it took about 45 minutes to make 2 dozen, which is not too bad at all!

Chocolate Cookie:

1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
3/4 cup cocoa powder (unsweetened)
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 Tb. butter (soft)
1/4 cup shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup Light brown sugar
1 cup milk
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract



Set the oven to 375 degrees--add flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl.
Paddle the butter and shortening together in a mixer, once it is light and fluffy add both sugars, then slowly add the egg. Once the egg is fully combined alternate adding the dry mixture with the milk and the vanilla extract.

I used a small scoop to scoop quarter sized rounds onto a parchment covered sheet pan. I placed them about 2 inches apart from one another because the rounds double in size when baking. I placed the sheet pans in the over for approx. 10 minutes, I took them out when they were soft but bounced back when you touch the tops.

My cousin Julia is in the picture below, she was a great help!


Vanilla Filling:

1 cup butter (soft)
2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 jar of marshmallow fluff
2 tsp vanilla extract

I paddled the butter and sugar together in the mixer, then add the marshmallow fluff and vanilla extract and beat on high for 2-3 minutes.

I paired up the same sized cookies and I put one little scoop on 1 of the pairs, spread it out and put them together like a sandwich. Now they are ready to eat!!

An October Wedding full of Cupcakes!

A week ago I did cupcakes for a wedding in Georgetown, DC for 200 people. The bride chose 4 different cupcakes which were Lemon with Swiss Meringue, Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Icing, Chocolate with Chocolate Fudge Icing, and Vanilla Bean with Chocolate Fudge Icing. It took me 3 days to do them out of my kitchen, baking off batches of 50 at a time. Then many batches of lots of Icing!