Lolli Flower Bouquets

For a First Communion party last weekend, we had a client request "Lolli Bouquets." When we met to discuss what she wanted, I was thinking our traditional "lolli bouquets" which you have seen many times on this site - but NO! The client smiled and tilted her head and said "Well you do flower bouquets, right?!" (Yes) "So - I want flowers and lollis together for the center of the tables!"

Never one to say no to a challenge - I said yes and figured we would figure it out. Luckily for me, Jean the Supreme was visiting for the weekend - so I put her in charge of the flowers. I was thrilled with the result, as was the client. Somehow I have the feeling we will be doing these again!

Lollipop, Lollipop

This first bouquet was a request from a client that wanted to send a bouquet to an advertising exec. at Ralph Lauren. She wanted the POLO logo on some lollipops. I got a headache. I called her and told her I didn't think I could do it... too much detail on too little surface. We came up with plan B and I went to work.

Just for kicks I decided to try to draw the logo on a lollipop with edible ink. It looked surprisingly good, but I still didn't feel like it looked good enough to send to Ralph Lauren's offices. Then I decided to "trace" my drawing in chocolate. Hmmm. Lovely if I do say so myself!

This is the bouquet that shipped out this morning. It featured the pastel colors of Ralph Lauren's spring line and a few logo pops. They look good enough to eat.






My second challenge was to make some Batman Lollis for my nephew's 5th Birthday. He calls me his "Cinnamon Cinnamon Sugar" - so they had to be good!

This is bouquet before each lollipop was individually wrapped. The Batmen are vanilla lollis and the bats are chocolate. I can't wait to hear what he thinks when the box arrives in North Carolina! HAPPY BIRTHDAY J!

Mountain Lakes Lacrosse - 30th Anniversary

This cake was made for the 30th Anniversary Celebration of ML Lax. The cake was "Best Ever Vanilla" with vanilla buttercream. The lacrosse stick is made out of modeling chocolate covered with gumpaste.



This super large bucket of cupcake lollipops accompanied the cake.... Assorted flavors (chocolate, vanilla, mocha, coconut, lemon & carrot cake)

LADYBUG, LADYBUG

I spent the better part of the day figuring out how to make cupcake lollis into ladybugs. The biggest challenges were making the body longer (leaves less room for the lollipop stick) getting the fondant head to stick on and finding something edible that would work to make the antennae. The heads were made out of black fondant (and glued on with red chocolate) and the antennae were made out of black jelly beans with little fondant balls on the top. These pictures show the result... not the best on time per piece, but pretty darn cute!

TEACUPS!

I created these cupcake lollis as a sample for a corporate client. The teacup saucers and handles are made out of fondant and the decorations were all hand painted with luster dust. Which is your favorite??

Power Rangers

These lollis were designed for favors for a Power Rangers themed birthday party

EASTER

I was very busy for Easter (and I am not sure I have recovered, thus the lack of recent posts!) Anyway - here is one of the many baskets of lollis that was done for Easter - This basket was actually done for Perrotti's Butcher Shop in Far Hills. It never made it.... IMPORTANT LESSON... Chocolate will melt when left in a car, in the sunshine. Bummer.



This was the only cake I did for Easter. A giant egg made out of "I Remember Vanilla" with lemon curd and buttercream.

EASTER and SUSHI???!!!

I have been busy creating pops for Easter.... in addition to The flowers and leaves (as seen in a previous post, and again here) I am taking orders for Easter until 6pm on Monday April 6th. I will be making the following pops for inclusion in Easter bouquets.

Bright Colorful Flowers




Easter Eggs



Chicks (not a great picture) - they are really cute. Yellow with little chocolate eyes and chicken feet and an orange jelly bean beak.



Bunnies. I made 3 to try to figure out what to do. The bunny in the front (pink ears) was the winner. The ears are made from a marshmallow dipped in some colored sugar. Again the actual bunnies will be variations on this theme.



And - last, not Easterish, but definitely not least - SUSHI. I was walking through the grocery store a couple weeks ago and stopped to buy myself some spicy shrimp rolls for lunch. That got me to thinking.... how cute would sushi on a stick be ?! Well here are my versions: California rolls and spicy shrimp rolls (underneath is delicious vanilla cake.) Maybe you don't want them for Easter - but they are cute, and you should consider them for another occasion (just because I said so..)



I also made some lady bugs. But you will have to wait for that picture!

Showers, Congratulations & Happy 1st Birthday

Sorry for the lack of posts. I have been busy with sick kids (who are now better and knock on wood will stay that way for the Spring)... and getting work done. I have received a few comments that it is hard to see the detail on the cupcakes when they are already wrapped and that the backsplash in my kitchen (while beautiful) is distracting. So I have been trying to take 2 sets of pictures - one before wrapping and one after arranging. The picture thing does not always happen - and then when it does I am often rushed and don't do a great job at it. Maybe someday I will hire a photographer to come and take pictures or get myself better equipment.... but for now you will just have to imagine that things in real life look better than my photographs of them.

In other news I just bought the domain www.cupcakelollis.com !!! For the time being it will be this blog - but in the future who knows ?!?!

These lollipops were created to celebrate a summer internship at CBS Radio. I shipped them to Pennsylvania. The pops featured the CBS eye, CBS, a radio tower and a couple "congratulations" - flavors included chocolate, vanilla, mocha and lemon.

Here they are before being wrapped:



This is what the bouquet looked like before going in the box:



This bouquet was created to send to Florida to celebrate the 1st birthday of a little boy. The pops were done in blue, purple and white and arranged in a lime green bucket. Very colorful!




And the arrangement:



This is one of 2 arrangements that I did for a Bridal Shower outside of Baltimore, MD. The bride's colors are teal, chocolate brown and white. Cupcake flavors were lemon, mocha, chocolate and vanilla and were distinguished by the decor. I actually did the arrangement twice - once without wraps and then again with wraps (but forgot to take the 2nd picture.) I am sure this one does them better justice anyway!

Happy 1st Birthday!

This cake was for 1st birthday party held at the Birchwood Manor in Whippany, NJ held on February 14th (hearts, hearts, hearts!) The cake was alternating layers of Best Ever Vanilla and I Remember Chocolate with chocolate and vanilla buttercream. We also created 11 lollipop bouquets which were used as the table centerpieces.

A "Beary" Cute Shower Cake

This cake was for a "Baby Sprinkle" - a bunch of women getting together to share some drinks and conversation while "sprinkling" the mother to be with a few gifts to celebrate the pending arrival of her 1st daughter.

The cake was our Best Ever Vanilla with lemon buttercream. Of course there was also a cupcake lollipop bouquet which featured lemon and peppermint lollipops. YUM!

Cupcake Lollipops for a 50th Birthday Celebration

A couple weeks ago, my business partner and I ventured into a new line of business - Catering. (Well, it is not exactly new - I did catering as a career about 12 years ago - pre-husband and definitely pre-kids! - but that seems like it was a different lifetime at this point.) We did a cocktail party for a couple celebrating their 50th birthdays. The menu was designed around the events of their lives... and was a huge success. We haven't decided whether or not it is something we really want to pursue, but it was good to have a successful first venture.

The couple did not want a cake, so we served a variety of cupcake lollipops - Vanilla, Chocolate & Carrot Cake!