Summertime Flavors!

I decided to go with a 'picnic' theme, incorporating some flavors I've tried before with some new ones.  I'll break them down one by one. 

The first is a watermelon cupcake.  It's a watermelon cake filled with a watermelon coulis and topped with a watermelon buttercream frosting and black candy pearls. 

 While it looks like a 'slider', a mini burger, it is actually an orange cake, a moist cake filled with fresh orange zest.  There is a rich chocolate fudge filling and a raspberry-infused buttercream frosting, tinted here to give the appearance of ketchup and mustard.  The top is garnished with sesame seeds that have been cooked in simple syrup. 

The third flavor I made for the 'picnic' spread is a pink lemonade which I actually tried for the first time two summers ago.  It is a strong and tangy cake with a 'pink lemonade' flavor.  It is filled with pink lemonade lemon curd and topped with a pink lemonade buttercream and garnished with a drinking straw

This is another one that I've tried in the past and was very popular.  This is one of the more whimsical-looking cupcakes I've ever done as well.  It gives off the appearance of corn on the cob, complete with a square of butter and salt and pepper.  It's actually a moist lemon cake topped with a buttery, lemony frosting and then garnished with lemon jelly beans and a lemon Starburst candy, as well as both white and black sugar. 

The last of the flavors I tried is a Root Beer Float.  It's a cake with very heavy ginger flavors in it.  It is topped with a buttercream that has a strong vanilla flavor and a root beer syrup drizzled over the top and then garnished with a drinking straw.