Wednesday started early for us, it actually started on Tuesday. Karen and I prepared a Big Top Circus Cupcake Party, a Lobster Cupcake Project, Popcorn Cupcakes, Corn on the Cob Cupcakes, Ant's Picnic Cupcakes, Fried Chicken Basket Cupcakes, a whole Whale Pod Cupcake project, Sandcastle Cupcakes, and finally a big Bouquet of Zinnias Cupcakes. We packed it all in Karen's station wagon and drove very carefully into Manhattan avoiding as many pot-holes as possible (we only lost one Zinnia and a couple of seagulls along the way) and delivered our Summer Blast Cupcake Party to the TODAY Show at Rockefeller Center. We worked with the set designers, the producer, the food stylists, the prop crew, and the camera crew to set up the table. The cupcakes on the table looked so fantastic and tempting that the crew put bright yellow caution tape all around the area to keep everybody safely out of arms reach and finally late Tuesday we called it a day and drove home to sleep for a few hours (Karen needed rest to look perky for her close-up camera shot on Wednesday!). Early Wednesday morning Karen crawled out of bed, decorated a few more clowns and elephants for the Big Top project and made her way back to the studios for the segment. And what a segment it was. The cupcakes looked great, Kathie Lee and Hoda were so sweet and loved everything, and they all had a blast making Zinnia cupcakes for the bouquet. The projects are all easy, they use simple candies and snacks for decorations, and there is something here to inspire everyone. So click on the link below, watch it yourself, and get started making your own Summer Blast Cupcakes. (The recipes for the Zinnias, the Corn on the Cob, and the Popcorn are on the TODAY Show web site at www.msnbc.msn.com)