Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Happy Easter 2012

Always a special time of year, especially for decorative baking.
Simple chocolate and yellow cupcakes, done in Spring pastel colors. Chocolate bunny and egg jelly beans on top, or a little birds nest with dyed coconut.

Always enjoy doing these. A Christmas gingerbread house, done up as a "Bunny Hut". Sour patch jelly beans on the roof, with Peeps bunnies looking to get in.
For those who can't enjoy the sugary sweet fare, here are sugar-free cupcakes, yellow and chocolate, with sugar free cream cheese icing, topped with fresh blackberries and sugar-free compote.
Finally, the archetypical Easter Lamb cake, made from lemon pound cake. Covered in buttercream and coconut, with dyed coconut, chocolate pieces and jelly beans around the base.