Italian Cake and Cupcakes

Celebrated our friend Vinny's birthday this past weekend. He's Italian and we decided to have and Italian themed party, complete with Italian plates, napkins, and coasters. I made him a cake (Guinness chocolate stout cake - I know its not Italian, but he likes Guinness) and topped it off with a fondant cut out of Italy I painted the colors of the flag. I also made some cupcakes to go along with it too- spaghetti and meat ball cupcakes along with chocolate stout cupcakes and my new mango cupcakes. Here are some temporary pics for now... unfortunately had to take them with my cell phone since I forgot my camera and was rushing around baking that day (I had to drop off cupcakes at the restaurant as well).