Cupcake-Fest: cupcakes

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Friday, 24 February 2012

Baking day!

Phew! This post finally brings my blog up to date! It's taken a while, but now everything is where it should be and I intend to
update as I go from now on... Here's what I've done today.

First up - cupcakes to take to a friends house...

Then, I promised my hubby a cake of his choice to take to work to celebrate completing his big project - more on this next week when it's filled and frosted!

And some bread - this is just our usual loaf that I bake for our bread needs. This one is plain white - see my earlier blog on how I make it for how I make it!!

I also baked a special celebration cake - I think it's going to be a big one as that's a 9" tin... again - more on this when it's finished!

I did this too - not baking, but apple sauce that I like to have with porridge or yogurt!

Friday, 17 February 2012

Halloween cupcakes for work

The pale ones with the white topping are Jack O'Lantern cupcakes - made with pumpkin with a cream cheese icing, and the chocolate ones are vegan chocolate cakes with regular vanilla icing and chocolate drizzle. I put little Halloween cupcake picks in them to serve!

Cupcake party...

I did a cupcake class for a Girl Guide unit a while ago - I took the cupcakes and all of the icing and the decorations and helped the girls to decorate some cupcakes that they then got to take home. This had gone down very well and it just so happened that the daughter of one of my friends was part of this group. So, when my the birthday of my friends daughter was approaching she had said to my friend 'maybe you could make some cakes just like Mrs Cupcake and we could do that for the activity at my party!' - my friend was not so keen! and so asked me if I would do it - I said I would be delighted and it would save me having to think about what to do for a gift!
So - I was prepared for a session at their house with a group of 13 year old girls, plus the siblings of the birthday girl - I went armed with cakes and icing and things to sprinkle and decorate with. I decorated a couple to show the sort of thing that could be done, but everyone had a very creative time and made some fabulous cakes!

Sunday, 13 November 2011

Secret Cake Project I - the Summer Wedding!

I offered to make a wedding cake for a relative as a wedding present - the wedding was to be very home-made and out of doors, with camping and all sorts of help and contributions from friends and family which all became part of the celebrations!
However, I offered and the bride to be knew exactly what she wanted... which was this:

with apologies to whoever's photoshoot this is from - I was emailed it and I don't have the details and I don't know enough about fashion to know which designer it is... I will be happy to add credits if someone gives me the information!

So... never one to be phased I got to work and did some planning and calculating! I'll spare you the test shots, and just got to the main event...

I even felt inspired to make bride and groom ginger people!