Lavender Cupcakes

Last night I made some cupcakes for a friends birthday, they are Lavender flavored with a Honey Buttercream icing. If you enlarge the picture you can kind of see a few Lavender flowers in the actual cupcake.
They turned out really well and I think this Honey Buttercream icing is my new favorite, you can taste the honey just enough that it's not overwhelming. However the butter stands out more than the honey and I think it's because I use salted butter. I know most recipes say not to but we've always bought salted butter so it seems silly to stop what I'm doing to run to the store to buy unsalted butter. For this recipe I think I may have to start doing that just to see what the difference is.
Because they're lavender I was worried peope would be a little turned off so I made sure to not say anything about what flavor they were. Once people were like, "oh this is good what is it?" I'd reveal my secret. Overall, great feedback and they make my kitchen smell like heaven when I steep the lavender in water.

First Post- Vanilla Cupcakes

Just wanted to celebrate the first post on my blog by making some cupcakes and sharing them with you.

No fancy flavors, just classic white cake with a dash of vanilla alcohol and butter flavor. The dark ones are Chocolate Ganache with yellow fondant flowers while the white and purple ones are purple tinted homemade fondant topped with Buttercream Icing.

I'm told they were quite tasty.

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Some other silly info, I got my business cards today in the mail. I wish I would have waited until I designed a label for "Kristie's Kreations" before I ordered them but I like them just the same. A woman from work is having me make some cookies and cupcakes for her daughters Easter themed birthday and suggested I order some cards so I could maybe get a little business on the side going. I cannot wait to start handing these cards out!