Well, look at me - I made cupcakes!

There were two occasions I was supposed to be at this weekend, one was a picnic and the other was an afternoon tea, and so on Friday I made cupcakes.  However, still incubating my own little cupcake and having some dodgy blood pressure readings resulted in Friday night in hospital and a promise that I would rest on the Saturday, so I did make it to the afternoon tea (on the basis it was at our friends house in our street), but not to the picnic (which was a shame).
However, I frosted the cupcakes for the occasion and took them along.
I made cookies and cream cupcakes - these were somewhat shamelessly 'inspired' by the cookies and cream cupcakes we had from the Pet Lamb Patisserie girls the previous week, and I also made black bottomed cupcakes from the Hummingbird Bakery cookbook that I received as part of my leaving present from work.
Here they are:

Cheesecake

Tempted as I was by the Nigella cheesecake recipe, I made the recipe out of the new cake book - it worked very well and the cheesecake was delicious.

I tried to find a link to the cheesecake song, which is hilarious, but I couldn't find it - I'll dig it out and see if I can get the details as it's well worth a listen (it's here! ignore the video though - I don't know what that's about).

The cake stand that the cheesecake was on was a recent aquisition from everyones favourite swedish furniture supplier...
You can also glimpse the crispie cakes I made aswell - these aren't getting a separate mention as they were very simple and not overly glamorous, but did provide another dairy free alternative.