Marilyn Monroe Sunbeam

I celebrated the other day.
All of my beauty-full red velvet cupcakes sold out at Cronie's.

I came home and celebrated myself, by eating one. In bed.
While watching Golden Girls.

This is the first thing I saw when I woke up in the morning.

Marilyn Monroe on my wall, peeking through the window of my cupcake box.
(The cupcake box was sitting on the headboard of my bed, leaning up against the wall).
Red cupcake crumbs on the old cupcake liner that was also on the inside corner of the white box reminded me of Marilyn Monroe's lipstick.

The wannabe food stylist - food photographer in me grabbed my cell phone immediately so I could take a photo.

What does this mean? Is it deep or symbolic? Is it creepy? Glamorous? I don't really know.
But it adds a great new story to my cupcake journey.

I kind of enjoy moments like this, that aren't planned or scheduled.
Moments like Marilyn Monroe looking through a window of a cupcake box at 8am.
Better than a sunbeam? Maybe more interesting.
♥

A Love Affair with Cake Pops

I adore cake pops.
If you haven't heard of them, you mix your favorite cake crumbs in with your favorite frosting and make balls out of them.  You let them freeze overnight on parchment paper.  In the morning, you dip the cake pops on lollypop sticks into melted chocolate or melted candy wafers.. and decorate them to your heart's content.
They even look pretty when they are bitten into. ♥

I created some for Cronie's Cafe in Waupaca, Wisconsin the other day.
They are renting me their kitchen for commercial use.  I might just be selling an array of cupcake pops there in May! Hooray, one step forward for Amanda Cupcake..and mankind!!

Edible Glittery Heart Shaped Cake Pops that resemble balloons!

Pretty when eaten.

Cake Pops disguised as Ice Cream Cones! They taste like red velvet/cherry♥

I call these the "Tainted Luv" Cake Pops.
Named after a boutique I stumbled upon in Whitewater, WI.
I told the owner Barbara that I would make her Tainted Luv themed cupcakes.
She requested purple.  This is what I came up with!

Oh, Tainted Luv.