Emma Lea and Max's Wedding

My daughter's beautiful wedding. I  made Lemon blueberry cupcakes, Orange rosemary cupcakes, Lavender Earl grey cupcakes,  Mexican Hot chocolate cupcakes and the wedding cake.  My very talented sisters helped me decorate them. I was a little frazzled that morning to have a steady hand. Everything turned out beautifully.

Olivia and Jeffrey's Wedding Cupcakes.

  My twin sister Jen and her husband Jim's oldest daughter Olivia got married to a very nice young man Jeffrey Craft. Over the weekend they held a reception in their honor. My sisters and I made over a hundred cupcakes for the event. The flavors were Banana Cream Pie, Maine Blueberry Lemon, Double Chocolate, and Almond Fresh Raspberry. My job was to make all the butter cream frosting and decorate them. My dad made the rustic tiered cupcake stand. A friend of my sister, Melanie Barrick made the beautiful birch tree cake. Altogether it was a great collaboration. The end result was beautiful!!!

Photos by Ernie and Emma-Lea Jacklin

Lemon Slice Cookie Cupcakes

Lemon slice cookies on top of lemon blueberry cupcakes topped with white chocolate frosting.

Lemon Slice Cookies
1. cup softened butter
1. cup powdered sugar, sifted
1/4 tsp. salt
 1/4 tsp. yellow food coloring
1-2 tbsp. grated lemon rind.
1 1/2 cups sifted all purpose flour
yellow sanding sugar

Instructions:
heat oven to 375. mix butter, sugar, salt, food coloring, and lemon rind thoroughly. add flour and blend well. roll 1/4 inch thick on floured board. cut into 2 inch circles, then in half. sprinkle on sanding sugar. place on ungreased baking sheet. bake for 6 to 8 minutes, or until set but not brown, cool. for the rind, roll rounded edge in a mixture of one egg white and one teaspoon water, then in sanding sugar. add thin line of icing (below) 1/4 of an inch of outside edge.
Makes about 6 dozen cookies.
To make icing: Blend one cup of sifted confectioners sugar, 1/4 of a teaspoon salt, and one tablespoon lemon juice. fill pastry bag and squeeze onto cookies. if icing is too thick add more juice or a little water.

Lemon Love Cupcakes

   Just a few pictures of the cupcakes and display for the Relief Society dinner that was held last night. There was great food and wonderful friends! Thank you Emma-lea you were a big help!

 Here are some of the blogs from which I borrowed. http://100daysofevelyn.com/2013/09/22/lemon-tree-cupcakes/, http://www.sugarswings.com/2014/08/fall-flower-box-cupcakes.html, http://lilluna.com/easy-pumpkin-cupcakes/,
http://www.yourcupofcake.com/2014/06/lemon-blueberry-cupcakes-2.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+YourCupOfCake+(Your+Cup+of+Cake)