The best part........

.......... besides eating tons of cupcakes is decorating them ! I still get a bit of a thrill when I finish baking the cupcakes and making the frosting, because then comes the art. How to design all these little mini cakes? I love choosing which color and flavor will end up on each cupcake. This is a little snippet of how it all goes down~

~ from a distance it almost looks like mint ice cream- up close-->it's mint frosting
that will end up on ........

.....this classic size cupcake.~

.....topped with mini chocolate chips and a candy pine tree and garden knome. I couldn't resist buying these candy shaped knomes. They're so cute. (Any 'Amelie' lovers?)

~ Swan Lake ~
(above)

~Mocha Cupcakes~

~ Forrest of Mint Chocolate Knomes~

~ ballerinas on bubblegum frosted cupcakes~