Blame Us!

Where did summer go? I feel like I did not have a summer at all, considering I worked everyday. So sorry AGAIN if we haven't updated in awhile! Melanie and I sadly, did not make it in time to do the Jelly Belly contest! We did make cupcakes and baked a lot this summer though! Here are some recap pictures:

Melanie finally turn 21 and her boyfriend bought her the dozen Sprinkles "bday" cupcakes! :) And above these two, I made my friend Sarah some cherry cupcakes for her Baby Shower! 

Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!

It definitely has been way overdue since we last wrote a blog, and we apologize a million times. It's actually Melanie's turn to write a blog, which she promised she would do her best to write an update during our spring break which starts on March 18th! So for sure check back then! (And since it's been a while, I'll make sure she writes a loong amazing blog (: that will be worth reading!)

In the meantime, Melanie and I made birthday cupcakes last week for our friend's 21st birthday! We decided to bake her vegan margerita cupcakes (she's not vegan, but we decided to try it out..) and we felt that margerita flavored cupcakes would fit the theme perfectly! Here are some pictures of what they looked like.. you can also check them out in our Flickr album to the right of here! -->>

Oh and we took videos of us making these cupcakes, so keep intune for a finished video for that! :)

plus check out our new VIDEO = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVl4I-brLM :) get the inside scoop of us making the margerita cupcakes! :)

Short & Sweet

Wow! What a birthday weekend! Melanie made me an awesome cupcake cake that tasted deliciouso! Here's a pic of it -



Me with the cake :)

Those of you who got to try it, it was chocolate cake on the bottom and strawberry cake on the top with strawberry pudding? Frosting was obviously chocolate, and she also added chocolate covered strawberries!!!! Aaaaah I want some more! Once again, thank you Melanie for taking your precious time to make this cake for me! :) Love you!

Anyway, since then, Melanie and I started working at our new job in the gold coast! We are literally a block away from Sprinkles. Therefore, we have been getting Sprinkles more than anyone could go. We are pretty fortunate to have received the free cupcakes they do every day! If you are a fan on their Facebook or Twitter you can see that they post a "whisper" word to say at each local store to receive a free cupcake! :)

We also visited More's Cupcakes and we decided we do not like their cupcakes! Sorry More's but your just not cutting it.

Melanie and I have been swamped with homework from school!!!! We hope to make the Strawberry Champagne cupcakes! And make more videos/order form. Sorry it's taking longer than expected. It should be up SOON hopefully.

-Krazy 4 Kupcake Girls <3



Scratch.....Disaster?

Ah, one by one the good ol' summer days go by... Sooner or later time will past and Melanie and I will be back living in the Chi! I, on one end am impatiently waiting until that day comes! Anyhoo, Melanie and I have kept our summers busy by making more and more cupcakes!! I know, exciting right? We kept our promises and finally tried making cupcakes from scratch. Last Sunday we promised my cousin that we would bake cupcakes for her graduation party. We asked her what kind she wanted, and she told us red velvet, so we did. Additionally, Melanie and I decided to create two extra flavors, and these would be the ones we would make from scratch. Can you guess which flavors these were? Well we wanted to make one that would be common to eat and also one that you guys selected based off the 'next flavor' poll on the side. Those of you who DID vote and helped us out, we really appreciate it!!! =)

Okay, so I'll just tell you... We ended up making Vanilla Caramel and Peanut Butter cupcakes. Sounds delish right? We thought so too. Melanie and I planned to make these cupcakes last Sunday before her party... But unfortunately Melanie found out she had to work that day. We had no other alternative day to make them because I had to work the day before. So therefore, we planned to split the cupcake making and do it separately. Let me tell you it was a TON of work. You wouldn't believe how long it took each of us to make them... Since Mel had all the cupcake ingredients at her house; she had to make the two cupcakes from scratch on her own. I on the other hand, only had to make the red velvet cupcakes from the box but also had to make the finishing touches of the cupcakes (toppings, decor). A total estimate of the time it took us to make these cupcakes on our own was approximately 6-7 hours!!!! Ugh.

  

Luckily, on Friday (6/25/2010) we already made the frosting from each cupcake so that saved us some time. We actually videotaped a few shots of us making the frosting, which will soon be posted! :) Overall, the cupcakes turned out... Well let's just say since it was our first times making it from scratch, it wasn't our best. But hey, everybody makes mistakes and learn from them right? We'll make sure the next homemade cupcake will be superb! My cousin "claims" that they were great, but we just think she's being too kind!! (Just teasing, Lisa!) We just wished they turned out a tad bit better.... Our biggest problem is how to avoid making a cupcake DRY? But we will be posting up pics and videos on that cupcake process. So keep intune!!!!


Our next creation is definitely going to be the Strawberry Champayne cupcake!!! Now that will be tasty! Melanie and I vowed that we will never make cupcakes without each other ever again!!! It was a horrible experience, and is no fun without a buddy there making it with you! :)
 
K4K

PS those of you who contribute to our website, keep it up!!! We would love to see more feedback on our site! Come on Chicago, you all KNOW cupcakes are taking over :)

Check out our NEW YOUTUBE ACCOUNT!!!!! SUBSCRIBE PLZ =) www.youtube.com/krazyforkupcakes

Melanie's Birthday (August 17 2009)

So yesterday was my birthday and I made cupcakes for my friends. I forgot that one of my friend's boyfriend is vegan but luckily he brought some vegan cupcakes. Also, Nancy brought cupcakes with her too. For my party I ended up with three different kind of cupcakes, and they were all delicious. The cupcakes I made were banana with cream cheese frosting and pink sugar to go with my pink theme. Mine were made from the box, but they weren't that bad.

I was interested in trying the vegan cupcakes to see how different it is from normal cupcakes. I could barely tell that the cupcake was vegan. Although it did have a distinct taste because it was Margarita flavored but none the less it was amazing. I wish I had taken a picture of it because it was very cute. The frosting was green and had sprinkles on the edge of cupcake, mimicking a Margarita glass.

Nancy brought Coldstone cupcakes, which we had been dying to try and now had a good excuse to have them. The cupcakes had a chocolate shell on the bottom that looked like a cupcake liner. At the very bottom of the cupcake was a thin layer of cake and fudge. The rest of the cupcake was ice cream topped with frosting. It came in three different flavors; Chocolate, Red Velvet, and Vanilla. You can make custom Coldstone cupcakes, but must order it two days in advance.

My birthday was filled with yummy cupcakes, which I hope is a good omen that the rest of year will have many good cupcakes as well!

 Love, Melanie