Cupcake Decorating

Last night we celebrated my best friend's birthday, by going to a cupcake decorating class. Her nickname is cupcake- so it was a very fitting thing to do! She also loves to make/decorate cupcakes, as do I. I think in a another life I was a baker/cake decorator.

Anyway we went to a place called Miss. Mamie's, it is in Marietta, GA. We didn't get to meet Miss. Mamie herself but I can tell you this girl is amazing! We learned that she just turned 24!!! She opened the bakery when she was 21...wow! (makes you feel like your a loser) She was recently on the show Cupcake Wars and won. So it that tells you anything...this place is pretty wonderful. The ladies last night were all so nice and helpful! We asked lots of questions because well we are very nosey.

With this class you pay $30 and get to spend 2 hours learning a technique then decorate and take home 6 cupcakes. We learned how to make a fondant flower. I have always wanted to work with fondant...not as hard as I thought, but I was just making a flower. I am pretty impressed with our skills though. After the flowers we iced our cupcakes and took our flowers home to dry overnight.

Even though we got 6 cupcakes with the class I had to buy more. There was a chocolate cupcake with peanut butter frosting...umm heaven! I bought 2 of them thinking I would share one with my husband tonight...I ate one last night at 11pm and the whole time I thought wow this is huge but that didn't stop me from eating the whole thing. Kelsey was very impressed with my flowers this morning, her words were "Mommy I am so excited that you thought of me and made me pink flowers for MY cupcakes!" Yes why of course Kelsey I was thinking of you :) Hayden's eyes were huge and he was repeating cupcake, cupcake, cupcake... I didn't think he needed to consume one at 6:30am so despite both their efforts tantrums I promised we could eat them tonight.

Of course we took pictures:

If you are in the Marietta Square area, you must go check this place out! They told us they start every morning with about 20 different flavors to pick from so I take that as go early so you get a variety to pick from. I will be dragging my family down there very soon!