Carsen's Baptism

Brooke requested some pretty cupcakes to celebrate her daughter, Carsen's, baptism.  She wanted yellow cupcakes with raspberry buttercream and little crosses on top with her daughter's initals on them.  

I was planning to make the white crosses out of fondant but found a cross candy mold at Michael's.  I was SO excited!   Nothing beats white chocolate!  (Well, maybe milk chocolate, but I digress...) 

The raspberry buttercream looks so pretty, I think.  It's a deep pink color and you can see the flecks of raspberries swirled in there (I used 1 1/2 pounds of raspberries in there!). 

May God bless baby Carsen!  Congrats to her whole family!

Our Maren, Full of Grace

Saturday we celebrated our daughter, Maren's, baptism.  It was a special day for all of us and one that we were looking forward to for some time.  The gown she wore for this occasion has been in my husband's family for 105 years. Danny, Josie and Maren all wore this gown and it just feels holy!

To celebrate the occasion, we had all of those involved over to our house for an Italian-style meal (lasagnas) and we enjoyed these delicious cupcakes.  I made pink lemonade cupcakes with pink lemonade frosting.  I was really picturing something simple and innocent for decoration and came across these little cross toppers and thought they were perfect.  



I came across the plates and napkins at a later date and thought they went perfectly together.  What luck!

My God Bless our little Maren Grace.  We love her so!