I made these Christmas cupcakes for my neighbors instead of Christmas cookies this year. Rudolph and the holly cupcakes are yellow cake and the Christmas tree is red velvet cake. They are decorated with red, green, gold, white, black, dark brown, and light brown buttercream icing. Rudolph is decorated with chocolate buttercream icing and has pretzels for antlers. It pays to be my neighbor!
This chocolate full body Mickey Mouse cake was made for a
little boy's second birthday. I cut out
most of my cakes free handed, but I have a ton of cake pans clients
occasionally want, so when this client wanted Mickey Mouse I related that I had
a full body Mickey Mouse pan and a Mickey Mouse head only pan. She chose the full body Mickey Mouse pan with
the full understanding that I would have to adapt my 1978 vintage Mickey Mouse
cake pan to be recognizable for a two year old!
The biggest challenge was the vintage Mickey not having a hand, so I
tried to make it look like Mickey's hand was behind his back. I like how it turned out, but I think if I
did this again, I would free hand draw Mickey's hand on his hip. Mickey's face is my favorite part because I
think I free handed that spot on and it was easily the most fun to draw. The final cost for Mickey is below: 
Chocolate Cake: $1.93
Yellow Cake: $1.93
Foils: $1.50
This was my first ever cupcake cake! I was a little nervous about how the cupcakes would stick together with the icing, but was super easy. This is a 15 cupcake cake with 8 yellow cupcakes and 7 chocolate cupcakes all decorated in white, black, grey, and orange buttercream icing. It ended up being about the same size as a 9x13 cake, but this only fed 15 people whereas a 9x13 cake feeds many more depending on the size of the slices. Below is my final price:
These cupcakes were made for a
little boy’s third birthday who happens to LOVE superheroes! I made 12 of each
design and made half of each design chocolate cupcakes and the other half
yellow cupcakes in case a guest really wanted a Spiderman chocolate cupcake! The Spiderman cupcakes have red foils and are
decorated with solid red buttercream icing, drizzled black buttercream icing
resembling a web, and white and black buttercream icing making the eyes of the
mask. The Superman cupcakes have blue
foils and are decorated with solid blue buttercream icing with yellow and red buttercream
icing making the Superman logo on top. I
also specialized one of the Superman cupcakes with the little boy’s name and
special logo. The Batman cupcakes have
yellow foils and are decorated with solid yellow buttercream icing and the
black Batman symbol hand drawn with black buttercream icing. These were quite time consuming to make, but
I think they turned out splendid! 
Buttercream Icing per Batch: $2.55
x 3.25 = $8.29 (1 red, .5 black, .25 white, .5 blue, 1
yellow)
Labor: $6.00 per hour x 5 = $30
These cupcakes were made for a
client to use as end of the school year thank you gifts for her children’s
teachers. I made the cupcakes and the
rest of the presentation was all the creative energy of my client! The cupcakes are yellow cake and decorated
with pink, purple, and yellow buttercream icing to look like flowers. I even
found green foils to look like stems.
Adding the cost of the foils is not something I have done when making
cupcakes in the past, but as that side of my business grows I feel I must add it
as a cost. Thus, the cost of the
cupcakes is as follows: 
Buttercream Icing per Batch: $2.55 x
1.5 = $3.83 
This cake was made for three year
old twin boys who are in love with Thomas the Train! The engine is a chocolate cake while the
lumber car is yellow. Both are cut from
a 9x13 cake pan. They are decorated with
blue, gray, white, black, green, and yellow buttercream icing and linked
together by Twizzlers. The logs on top
of the lumber car are Twix candy. Below
is the final price for this cake that easily fed 35-40 people depending on how
large the pieces are cut. 
Total: $44.42
