Sushi Cupcakes for Cassie

Cassie Joy Sweet is my cupcake assistant.
Think of that show..Cupcake Girls on WE TV.
Those two have major chemistry in the kitchen.
That's what Cassie and I are.

Now Cassie is leaving for Japan to visit her brother until November.
And to thank her for all her help....
we had a sushi making party last night!

I've made sushi cupcakes before for my brother.

He even used chopsticks to eat them.

The garnish "splashes" on top of the cupcakes were created by melting jolly ranchers in the oven and using a toothpick to make shapes out of them while they were still warm.  Inspired by the beauty-full art that is splashed onto your sushi platter at your favorite sushi restaurant.

And instead of making sushi cupcakes FOR Cassie, I thought it would be more fun if we made them together. Really appropriate since she is going to Japan on Monday. ♥

A Harajuku Girl Marshmallow Head on top of a cupcake.

A Sushi Roll Cake Pop. On a Chopstick♥

The meat/avocado chunks are made out of beheaded gummy worms.

The rice is made out of shredded coconut.

The cupcake is a mini cupcake.

Flavor=Pumpkin!

Harajuku Girl & Sushi Roll Cake Pops on Chopsticks ♥

I told Cassie I would lend her the chopsticks since she has never tried sushi in Japan. But I expected her to give them back to me, since I want her to come back to me!

The seaweed wraps are made out of fondant.

A little hint: We used candy melts as our "glue" for the "rice" by having our own mini cupcake fondue party! We dipped the mini cupcakes in candy melts. Then quickly sprinkled the shredded coconut on the cupcake before the candy melts dried.

This is the chopstick we used for the cake pops. It even has pictures of Harajuku Girls on it.

Red Jelly Belly Jelly Beans for the fish eggs!

The Cassie Joy Sweet and Amanda Cupcake Collection of Sushi Cupcakes.

Cassie is feeding me a pumpkin sushi roll!

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I told Cassie that when she goes to Japan, she should make the same cupcakes and put them out with normal sushi and see if anyone eats them thinking they are real sushi! A very sweet surprise. ♥

You can find Cassie Joy Sweet and her fun cupcake adventures on her blog if you click here.

Cassie even decided to donate some of the cupcakes to Cronie's in Waupaca (where I sell my cupcakes every week).  I sold them there today for $1.00 each just to see if people would come in to admire them, and dare to eat them! ♥ $1.00 isn't much of a risk for a yummy pumpkin cupcake coated in meat free sugar!

Cupcakes for an Architect!

The one thing about moving back to Wisconsin is that I have reunited with a lot of people from my past..through my cupcake creations!

This order was a cupcake reunion. For Nathan.
The last time I saw him, I was in high school.
And I never actually saw him, but my cupcakes did. His mom delivered them to him upon his return visit home from Minneapolis.  I hope he loved them.

Happy Birthday Nathan!

Nathan is an architect now.

I think it is kind of neat that he took a break from building..while I built him swirls & swirls of deliciousness on top of cupcakes.

I used his architect background as inspiration for the cupcakes.  These are red velvet cupcakes, topped with brown/red frosting to look like cherry colored wood.  The "wood chip" sculptures are made out of layered white/dark chocolate. 

Dark Cherry Wood with a Cherry On Top!

Nathan also requested carrot cupcakes.

For the carrot cupcakes, I created classy looking chocolate wood "tabletops". I thought I'd go the extra mile and add a birthday candle on top!

His name is balancing on a cupcake skyscraper. ♥ It's all yummy. Imagine...your name written in the sky with chocolate?  That's something out of a daydream.

I made the contemporary wood grain table sculptures by using a paintbrush to paint  a thin block of melted dark chocolate onto parchment paper, then freezing the 1st layer of chocolate.  (The brush will create the rough woodgrain texture).

Once the dark chocolate was frozen, I poured a thin layer of white chocolate over the dark chocolate and froze the layers of chocolate again.

Once I froze the chocolate, I used a round cookie cutter to cut my wooden table tops.. and this is how they ended up! I broke some of them up into moon shapes and wave shapes for the chocolate wooden cupcake toppers!

So..Nathan is an architect for buildings.

And I guess I am an architect for cupcakes.

..and perhaps a frosting architect?

♥