And here's what I've been doing all this week! Preparing and making 5 different flavours of cupcakes!

From left to right: ALS Awareness Red Velvet (red velvet with cream cheese frosting and a fondant ALS Awareness ribbon), Winter Wonderland (white velvet cupcake with blue mint buttercream and a hand-piped white chocolate snowflake), Peppermint Mocha (dark chocolate peppermint cupcake with coffee buttercream, a chocolate covered espresso bean on top, and an old fashioned peppermint stick), Christmas Rose (vanilla cupcake with vanilla buttercream, and a vanilla-flavoured red fondant rose), and Gingerbread (gingerbread cupcake with maple cream cheese frosting and gingerbread man-shaped fondant decoration).

Making these cupcakes, along with the winter themed mini cakes, literally took all week, making a lot of those little decorations first (making those roses took an entire afternoon...) and doing all of the baking part of it between yesterday and today. Today, I made all five flavours of cupcakes and buttercreams. WHEW! Making those chocolate snowflakes was probably the hardest...a lot of them didn't turn out as pretty =P

I'll be selling these cupcakes, and the mini cakes, at a local Christmas craft fair tomorrow. All proceeds will be donated to the ALS Association. Here's hoping they'll sell like hotcakes...er...cupcakes! XD