Easter Cupcakes

In celebration of Easter, Sweet Elites will be offering these lil q-t's for you and your family to enjoy with one another.

A vanilla cake batter with coconut buttercream, topped with roasted coconut to form a birds nest, adorned with mini candy eggs, and a momma bird to watch over.

Bright and colorful these cupcakes are perfect for an Easter celebration. 

Tiramisu Cupcakes

Oh Tiramisu how I love you!

For those of you who aren't familiar with exactly what all goes into the deliciousness that is this dessert, I'll break it down for you. Tiramisu literally means "pick me up" a popular italian cake. It is layered with typically coffee/liquor soaked sponge cake, mascarpone cheese and sifted cocoa.

In Sweet Elites case I have substituted the sponge cake with a super moist white cake that is soaked with a mixture of Kahlua liquor and espresso. It is layered with a soft buttercream frosting in place of the mascarpone cheese and then topped with sifted cocoa and dark chocolate shavings.

Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011

I was saddened by the loss of the last of Hollywoods Golden Age actresses. She was an amazing woman her beauty, talent, and humanitarian efforts will continue to live on though she is not.

One of my all time favorite films is hands down Cleopatra. Being obsessed with Ancient Egypt I was introduced to the film when I was 9 years old or so. What can I say Barbies weren't really my thing mummies, exploration and the mysteriousness of ancient past was what I found intriguing. I idolized her even at that age and still do, I thought she was so statuesque and amazingly beautiful in the film. She had a beauty to her that was all her own and that can never be replicated. I feel that had a big impact on my life as weird as that may sound, she was different and I appreciated that.

So in honor of Liz I baked some cupcakes feeling as though I owed it to her.

I made a classic cupcake for a classic woman. A vanilla cupcake with a violet shaded buttercream for Taylors famous violet colored eyes, sprinkled with purple sugar and a few sugar pearls for her love of jewelry.

Vegan Donuts

WOW!

These were fabulous, tremendous in fact, no-no-no stupendous!!!

Yes I specialize in vegan cupcakes but I have been wanting to experiment with vegan donuts as well. And these were a complete success and as far as I know I'm the only baker here in Fresno to be able to offer them at the moment. Which is good for all of us who have to walk in shame when we see an array of beautiful donuts and are unable to have them due to the dairy and eggs that accompany them. But fear not and don't be blue dearies Sweet Elites knows your pain and is here to save the day. Yes I do in fact know how cheesy that line was but eh I love cheesy ridiculous things.

 Soooo for the toppings I used chocolate of course, and a light pink buttercream for the classic Homer Simpson looking donuts-he'd be so proud,  powder sugar, and coconut that was first dipped in coconut oil (oh so yummy) and then topped with coconut flakes. 

The dough was sweet, airy and kick-butt delicious just how donuts should be! 

Rainy Days & Chai Latte Cupcakes!

Valentine Bake Sale

      

Thanks so much to those who came by and supported Sweet Elites yesterday. 

I'm so grateful to have super awesome customers, friends and my local community here in the Tower District!

♥ V I V A la C U P C A K E S ♥

Valentines Day is here!!!

♥ ♥ ♥

Sweet Elites Bake Sale!!!

Come hang out with me this Sunday and get your cupcake on!

Valentines Hostess Cupcakes

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
-Dr. Seuss

A mouthful of good, classic, ultra-moist chocolate cake filled with a super yummy vegan marshmallow cream/ or vanilla buttercream. Topped with ganache and the classic Hostess Cupcake design.

My heart is all I have to give to you...

A chocolate cake and fluffy buttercream frosting layered with a rich ganache and topped with a candy ♥

Melt your loves heart with a box of these q-t's this Valentines Day!

XOXOXO

Treat your Valentine to some of these lil lovely's!!!

With your choice of chocolate or vanilla flavored cupcakes with a creamy buttercream frosting, topped with lil red hot candies.

Roses for Valentines...

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two." 

-St. Augustine

Oreo's & Cupcakes? ummmm YES!!!

Chocolate cake with a oreo crumbled buttercream frosting dipped in ganache then topped with a slice of oreo cookie!

"Milk's favorite cookie" but in Sweet Elites case its-

"Soy milk's favorite cookie"

Strawberry Shortcake with a twist...

These little cuties were made with a moist vanilla cake filled with macerated strawberries, layered with a vanilla bean & a strawberry buttercream then topped with sprinkled powdered sugar and a dollop of frosting with a wee-lil ♥ 

enjoy...

Hello Kitty Cupcakes!!!

Special order for a special lady! 

Eat your heart out Sanrio ♥