Jelly Belly Cupcake Contest ♥ Amanda Cupcake Style

I just entered the Jelly Belly Cupcake Contest..
I know what I would do with the $10,000 if I won!

 

I'd contribute it to opening Amanda Cupcake as a *bakery*.

I can imagine what my bakery would look like.

• An Amanda cupcake "cupcake" of the day.
• Creative cupcake making classes.
• I'd want to hire a creative pie baker. (I am more of the cupcake girl although I do make yummy mini pies).
• An interesting visual display of cupcakes upon entering.
• The smell of sugar and frosting and yummy-ness in the air.
• Some old school flair (coffee cake, donut holes with pretty sprinkles-things you miss from the old school bakeries).
• Coffee and Cake Pops.
• Conversation and romantic dates. Maybe future husbands and wives would meet on their first date over a cupcake here!
• And I would definitely want to see a line out the door.
• That would just mean that my dream of sharing my cupcake love is spreading around the world.

My Jelly Belly Cupcake Entries:

 Giant Cupcake with an Edible Jelly Belly Liner.  This whole thing is a cupcake.  But the Liner is made out of Edible Candy Melts.  (I molded it using a giant cupcake pan)  Then I "glued" each Jelly Belly to the Cupcake liner using melted chocolate.

I think of people like my dad who like to "pick" through the jelly beans and addictively eat them.  Can you imagine entertaining a party with this giant cupcake?  All your friends could stand around and pick off the jelly belly flavor they wanted to eat! And don't forget to mention the cupcake underneath it all!

Some of the Jelly Belly Flavors I used:

Pomegranate

Tutti Frutti

Chocolate Pudding

Cotton Candy

Pomegranate Cosmo

 I swirled on some chocolate cream cheese frosting.  And a disco cherry! True to the "Very Cherry" Jelly Belly Appeal.

I tried to make the other entries true" to the Jelly Belly brand.

Beautiful, colorful, fun, and about the flavor!

Toasted Marshmallow S'mores Cupcake.  I used the Toasted Marshmallow Jelly Belly Beans as the "Marshmallows"

I sprinkled on some graham cracker butter crumbs..Added a clear candy "spark" (to resemble a spark in the fire you are toasting your marshmallow in!) And of course..a Hershey bar!

I made a "blue velvet" cupcake that tastes like a blueberry jelly belly.  The cupcake itself is blue. The frosting is blue.  Decorated with a delicious carmelized candy bridge, some blueberry Jelly Belly beans..and topped with a fresh blueberry! So delish.

Sushi Cupcakes for My Brother

When I lived in California and would come back home to visit my family, my brother and I would always steal away on a "sushi date."

He eats more sushi in one sitting than anyone I have ever seen while having some pretty deep conversations, and holding chopsticks!  When he came out to visit me in California, we ate sushi almost every single day.

And for his birthday this year..on St Patty's day I made sushi in the form of cupcakes for dessert!

Sushi dinners always have beautiful garnishing which inspired this "Jolly Rancher" sculpture I created ♥

The faux avocado is a chopped up gummy worm!

The fish eggs are jelly bellies!!!

The "tuna" is a melted jolly rancher.
I melted it in the oven at 350 in a metal rectangle fondant cutter.
When the jolly rancher rectangle was still warm, I arched it to look like a piece of tuna sushi!

This isn't real salmon.
I molded and painted fondant to look like salmon!

Wasabi?

I bought little grass garnishes from Nakashima's-where we had my brother's birthday dinner

My brother eating the sushi cupcakes with chopsticks!!

My little leprechaun niece said she wanted "the orange one!"

The only time my dad will ever eat sushi. When it is in the form of a cupcake!

My 2 year old cutie nephew Griffin eating a sushi cupcake!

♥

My niece Gaia decorating her sushi cupcake..
following in my foosteps perhaps?!?!
I would be thrilled to be her inspiration.

Her finished creation.

I *adore* this picture of my nephew about to eat the sushi cupcake!