Wednesday, August 29, 2012

It's Fall!!

     I LOVE fall! Technically, I guess you can't call it fall yet in southern California, it was 108 degrees today! But I'm hoping that if I believe it enough, I can make it be fall anyway! lol  So, I haven't blogged in a minute, I've been soooo busy.  Wanna know what I've been up to?

This is the cake I made for, my niece, Vidal's 8th birthday.  When I was asking her what kind of cake she wanted, she kept telling me all this boy stuff because she spends so much time with my boys, but I knew she didn't really want that.  But she definitely isnt' girly, so we came up with the idea of a zoo cake because she likes animals.


All the birthday party guests, a.k.a. my kids and their cousins. At the top is Nadalee. On the second row, from left to right, is Crissa, Vidal, and my son Fernando. And the bottom row, left to right, is my baby Albert, Audrina, Giselle, and Little Armando.I think they had a good time.

I also spent last weekend making Halloween cupcakes (I told you I was trying to make it be fall around here!) to put on my facebook page (facebook.com/sugarandspicesb). 










And I made my fall centerpiece for my table. The flowers and vase are all from Dollar Tree, there's these cute flowers on the side you can't really see that have little butterflies and they are so cute.  The Scarecrow picks I had from last year, I bought them at The 99 Cent Only Store. And I also had the pumpkins and pine cones from last year, they were purchased as a set from Wal- Mart for $4.97.  This weekend I'm going to "Autumnize" my porch and front yard, I think it'll be acceptable since it's September, even though we were invited to go to a pool party this weekend as well. lol
     And I want to share this recipe, I think of it as a fall recipe, for Bacon Maple Cupcakes.  Don't get scared because of the bacon, it tastes like pancakes and bacon and they are delicious.  You can get my recipe from scratch here. But you can go semi-home made and add maple extract to a box yellow cake mix, and substitute the vegetable oil with half butter and half bacon drippings, and fold the candied bacon in just like the recipe given.


Oh, and I almost forgot.




Fall Cakepops Centerpiece! I Think I might make another of these when its Thanksgiving and add some Turkey Cakepops to it as well!

Well, Happy Fall Friends!