Peanut Butter and Chocolate

I'm continuing on from my last post with another first.  I decided this week to try a new recipe - peanut butter chip cookie dough cupcakes.  It's a revision of the chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes that I frequently make.

These cupcakes have raw cookie dough, but instead of the chocolate chips I used peanut butter chips and placed them inside of chocolate cake and topped them with chocolate buttercream frosting.  I'm very happy to report that they were a huge success! Take a look below and see for yourself!

The cupcakes

The lighter part is the cookie dough

Bird cake

Last week was a week of firsts.  I started my first blog, opened my first real gmail account and made my cake debut at a sip n see (actually it was my first sip n see too).  My sweet friend had twins 8 weeks ago and Saturday was a party all for them.    

However, the mom made some requests for her too.  The cake was three layers: strawberry, chocolate and french vanilla.  I layered the cakes with chocolate buttercream, crumb-coated it in vanilla buttercream and covered in white fondant.  The theme of the party was birds, so I made sure to stick with the theme when decorating the cake with birds, trees and leaves all out of fondant.  The only inedible part of the cake was the cake topper - the two birds at the very top.  

The cake 

A view from the side to see the decorations on the front and back 

Looking forward to my next first!