frosting

He's gonna need to lose a few pounds after the Thanksgiving gluttony to make it down most chimneys.

I don't know if I'd like to taste a rainbow that a cat has been pooping, but in frosting form that's just fine.

There has to be an uncomfortable moment with these when you're expecting icy coldness and are met with creamy frosting. But you'll get over it.

My world can never have enough pink in it, especially when said pink is expertly piped onto perfect cupcakes.

Strawberry cream cheese frosting are the magic words here. I don't even care if there is any cake under there. I'll be happy with a giant lump of strawberry cream cheese frosting.

Though I'm usually a huge fan of fresh strawberries on a cupcake, I can't be mad at these perfect gum paste berries and flowers.

Accessorizing is a piece of cake!

Carrot cake is surrendering. I will capture it and give it an honorable death.

When times get tough, the tough get fancy. Or something like that. Seriously though, a handle on a cupcake is pretty seriously fancy. I don't think I could maintain that level of fancy for long. I'd end up with a frosting mustache or something.

This cake makes me think of the book "Afternoon of the Elves" by Janet Talyor Lisle which I read when I was only 11. It's reminiscent of a girl in boots that are too big who spends all her time building houses for elves out of leaves in her back yard. But now she's all grown up and getting married to an equally elvin man and they are having a simple barefoot wedding in the woods.

Someday I'm gonna catch me one of them sugar birds who lays Cadbury Mini Eggs and I'm going to keep it captive and secret so I can eat the chocolatey goodness all year round and NO I'M NOT SHARING.

I need to sit down. I need to breathe calmly into this bag to keep from fainting because this is possibly the most perfect cake I have ever seen and I've been looking at cakes for a long while, my friends. I marvel at the gradient pinks, the delicate layers, the thin filling that doesn't interrupt the gorgeous color. And the little paper banner on top! Perfection! I can die happy now, thanks!

I know a few of you would be stoked just to get a cone full of frosting. You can have it and I'll take the real cake.

I'm dreaming of summertime over here, and a watermelon cupcake certainly helps. The coolest thing about these is that they are watermelon flavored! I can't really imagine what that would taste like but I bet it's amazing. Talk about a well executed idea. Bakingdom rules!

Careful, this might make your phone a little too delicious.

Oh man is there a lot going on here. Those cupcakes alone look light and moist and delightful and then you go and pile on some pretty, fluffy, buttery icing mmmmmmm. And THEN you make little heart cookies and you ice them BUT you use MORE icing to make them all fancy and swirly and amazing. Then you PUT IT ON THE CUPCAKE! I'm so exhausted. I can't eat. I need a nap.