The first official order... the theme of Spiderman

I believe it was the day after I put the flyers in all the children's cubbies at the daycare when I received my first cupcake order!  I was amazed that a parent would contact me so quickly.  And the cupcakes were needed a few days from when the order was placed.  It was a father who contacted me to tell me that it was his son's birthday and he would love to have Spiderman cupcakes for his son to have a party at daycare.

For these cupcakes, I melted chocolate to make the spiders.  Keep in mind that this was the very beginning of  teaching myself how to make decorations.  I basically take wax paper or parchment paper.  I print out from my computer an image that I want to create.  I put the image under the wax paper and use the melted chocolate in a squirt bottle to trace the shape that I want.  When you are done tracing, put the tray in the fridge for a few minutes and they come out hard and ready to go on top of a cupcake!  With these spiders, I broke some of the legs because they were a bit fragile, but otherwise, they came out pretty good for my very first official order!