We are coming to Orange!

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  Starting Jan 21, we’ll be at the Orange Farmers Market in Old Town Orange. We are really excited to be a part of this market that is focused on a high quality of carefully selected vendors featuring fresh veggies, meats, cheeses and now cupcakes and PushCakes! We will be participating in the rotating artisan… [Continue Reading]

Happy New Year! Some changes in 2012

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Happy New Year! Thank you to all our customers, friends and cheerleaders in 2011. We hope that love for our desserts carries on in 2012. More changes are coming too but I’ll save that for a later post. We are also introducing a NEW cake concept! Can’t wait to share it with you. It is… [Continue Reading]

Renegade LA Holiday Show – See us there!

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Next Saturday and Sunday, we will be taking our show on the road and selling our treats at the famous Renegade Craft Fair at Los Angeles Historic Park. This is our first year participating in Renegade and we are so excited! Don’t know what Renegade is about? Check this out – The 2nd Annual Renegade… [Continue Reading]

Disney themed weekend

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This weekend kinda had a Disney theme to it. We had a few orders starting off with PushCakes for a joint birthday party with a bow & bow tie theme. Then we had a Cars theme cake with matching PushCakes.     And finally a Princess & the Frog themed cake with matching cupcakes. With… [Continue Reading]

Thanksgiving Turkey cupcake tutorial

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The last couple of years, I’ve done some tutorials for various other blogs on Thanksgiving treats. Today I am going to share one of those with you here on my blog.   Thanksgiving Turkey cupcake tutorial I did this tutorial for a feature on Cakespy.com. You can see it on her site but the instructions… [Continue Reading]

When Tomorrow Starts Without Me

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We missed out on Halloween festivities this year because of something very sad that happened to us. My baby, dog baby, Klondike had to be put to sleep. I came home on Friday last week and found him laying on the floor of our kitchen and wouldn’t move. I was so upset and hysterical. Sobbing…. [Continue Reading]

Halloween! & One Year at the Market

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We’ll be selling our fun Halloween cupcakes and pushcakes at the farmers market this year. It also marks the 1 yr anniversary of us being at the Great Park Farmers Market. I can’t believe it’s been a year already! My oh my how things have changed since our first market. Lots of ups and downs… [Continue Reading]

Great Kitchen Reorg 2011

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Since I work a full time job, plus manage my business on the side and tackle a long-ish commute every day, finding time to organize is at the bottom of my priority list. But the funny thing is that when I am un-organized, I waste more time and energy trying to find the things I… [Continue Reading]

Upcoming Events – Fall 2011

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Fall is here! (maybe) and we are participating in quite a few events this season. So far we’ve been accepted into: OC Chocolate Festival - Nov 4 & 5 This festival is all about eating chocolate and drinking wines and coffees. Are you in? You must buy a ticket to attend but that ticket includes lots… [Continue Reading]

Barnyard cupcake tower for a 2nd birthday

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We were hired to put together a barnyard or farm theme cupcake tower for a cute little boy turning 2. I hope we didn’t disappoint! These were so fun to make! I loved making the animal pieces and then the animal sounds. I thought that would be perfect for a 2 yr old! We topped… [Continue Reading]

Dessert table for Daniel Tosh, Live Nation and crew

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A month ago, I was hired to put together a dessert table to celebrate the run of Tosh On Ice 2011 tour at Honda Center. I am a fan of Daniel and his show Tosh.O. Coincidentally I was just at the season finale taping of Tosh.O a few weeks prior up there in Culver City. It was… [Continue Reading]

The Invitation Matched the Cake

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We had one heck of a busy weekend! We were very lucky to be asked to do a cupcake tower for Hearts & Laserbeams (the person responsible for the awesome graphics on my site!) son’s first birthday. Steph designed his first birthday invitations herself and I wanted to match his smash cake with the one… [Continue Reading]

September Flavor of the Month

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We’ve decided to start doing a flavor of the month, available exclusively at the Great Park Farmers Markets in Irvine on Sundays. This months flavor is called Tropical Sunrise. It’s a coconut cupcake filled with tart orange curd topped with creamy coconut buttercream and toasted coconut flakes. Depending on the popularity of the flavor, it could… [Continue Reading]

Often imitated…

Club Penguin themed PushCakes

Whoow has it been busy! And hot. Holy smokes has it been hot. During the week, I am inside an office building all day with AC (day job). I only truly appreciated how hot it was when we were sitting outside at the Great Park Farmers Market all day on Sunday. Never have I been… [Continue Reading]

A Pirate and his Booty

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This past weekend we took a break from the Farmers Market so I could have some fun celebrating one of my favorite kids 5th birthday. And I had the privilege of making this little dude a pirate cake to go along with the pirate theme of his big day. I can’t believe I’ve known this kid for… [Continue Reading]

Baby elephants on parade

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I don’t do cakes very often. Most of my orders are for cupcakes and then maybe a cutting cake or smash cake for the little one. So when I do get a cake, it breaks up the norm. I love the way this one came out. It was made to match the baby shower invitations… [Continue Reading]

“Paint” Splatter Cake

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I got this idea from the fab-o Kari from Retro Bakery. I think it came out pretty cute! It was really fun to make but VERY messy. But I’d do it again for sure.

Hot Pink Kitty

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One of the orders we had this week was for a Hello Kitty birthday party at Pretend City. Hot pink frosting was the request along with matching hot pink glittery bows. All hand cut decorations. Can someone tell me where I can buy a small hello kitty cutter??

Munchathon Ticket Winners!

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Congrats to Rhonda and Wendy! You’ve won the tickets to Munchathon! I’ll send you both an email with your code to redeem the tickets. And for those that didn’t win but still want to go, Dealgooder has a great deal today! Buy two tickets for Munchathon for the price of 1!

Munchathon Tickets Giveaway!

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We’ll be serving up frosting shots to the runners and selling cupcakes and PushCakes at this Saturday’s first ever Munchathon! The Munchathon, an event inspired by the Travel Channel’s Man v. Food and CBS’ The Amazing Race, will feature two major elements: a food-themed 5K fun run and obstacle course with food and beverage stations and… [Continue Reading]

Pink and ivory bridal shower

This past Saturday, we put together a dessert bar for a client that was hosting a bridal shower at her home. The theme was pink and ivory with a few touches of glitter and sea shells to compliment the wedding theme. The table included mini pink vanilla cupcakes, mini red velvet cupcakes with ivory daisies,… [Continue Reading]

New website!

Yeah! Finally a new website. After two years of dealing with my quickly thrown together site, I bit the bullet and decided to spend some money on a new site. I want to thank Steph Calvert of Hearts & Laserbeams for her awesome graphic design work. She came up with my new header, background image,… [Continue Reading]

Follow us on Facebook

Well i think it’s time for me to say goodbye to this blog. At least for a little while. Finding time to post has become a challenge. Since I update almost daily if not more than once a day on my Facebook page, I will now be focusing mainly on that to showcase the latest… [Continue Reading]

PushCake Love

Our PushCakes got a write up on the Hip Hip Hooray blog! Check it out! Thank you to Cupcakes & Cutlery for the great pics!

OC Hot List – Help make us #1

This year we are competing to be #1 in OC for Cupcakes on the OC Hot List. Help us make that happen but clicking this image below or visiting this link http://ctvr.us/meringuebakeshp. Thanks for your help!! If we win, we’ll have a special to celebrate!

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