Mustache Cupcakes

Happy, happy Monday!  I can't believe that it is July already!  Time is flying by way too fast for my liking!!  Hmm, for some reason, that seems to be the phrase of the year...year after year.  Scary, huh?  Well, let's stop time for a few minutes here and revisit some yummy cupcakes I had the pleasure of making.  I was asked to make some black and white cupcakes with a mustache theme.  Had I known that mustaches were going to be so "in," I would have totally picked up the "Billionaire" Cricut cartridge that I saw at Wal-mart...it was on clearance too.  But nooo, at the time, I was thinking that I didn't really use my Cricut all that much.  And even though that cartridge was on clearance, it still had a hefty price tag on it.  So, I didn't pick it up.  Fast forward two months later, and here I am, trying to make some mustache cupcakes with no mustaches.  And the fact that I have an old Mac laptop (that seriously does not like to cooperate with me on anything technological (or not)), which has conversion issues and whatnots, and what did I have?  Nothing but a bunch of regrets.  In fact, I was also remembering the time I was out at Paper Source with my cousin, and I picked up (picked it up!!) a box of the mustache cookie cutters.  It was pretty cool...but the logic side of my head told me I didn't really need it.  And what happened?  Yep, I needed it.  Anyways, my sweet baking buddy had some mustache art she lent me...it just wasn't in the colors my client needed.  And of course I couldn't crop the image so that I'm not printing out the entire page (with 2/3 of unneeded art)...I was stingy with my ink...(hey, who isn't?!)  Well, I printed what my stinginess will allow me to before trying to figure out another way around printing more.  And I was able to maneuver a mustache clip art and size it the size I needed.  It turned out pretty good!  Take a look!

These were chocolate cupcakes with vanilla frosting.  A perfectly sweet combination, in my humble opinion!  There was something very elegant about these cupcakes.  I used black cupcake liners, with chocolate cake, white vanilla frosting and black and white toppers.  I think the polka dots gave the toppers more character!  And better yet, I had enough polka dots toppers to make even rows!

Hope this post brightened up your Monday just a bit!  Cheers!