More cupcakery...

So I had a disaster last weekend. My plan was to make peaches & cream cupcakes but it all went wrong and the cakes came out like little stodgy blobs! So round 2 was roasted blueberry cupcakes with a chocolate sour cream frosting. Yum. For me, the frosting was slightly overpowering, the blueberry cakes were sweet & fluffy and although the chocolate was delicious, it would suit a plain choc or vanilla cake better. Will definitely try these cakes again but with a more simple frosting.

These are super cute mini cupcakes I made with some leftover cake mixture. I had a bag of pink frosting in the freezer so I whipped this up, added some sprinkles & they were a perfect little treat for the girls at work.

God Save The Cream

We celebrated the Queens Diamond Jubilee at work today with a tea party. All proceeds of the cake sale went to the Great Ormond Street Hospital so as a little treat I made a tiny tea party cake to auction off! This was a small 6" cake topped with miniature fondant cakes & tea, I took a pic with a 50p so you can see the scale. Its sooooooo cute, I just love the swiss roll! I really enjoyed making these little decorations and although they were fiddly I definitely want to do them again. The cake raised £30 for the charity which is great, and the lucky winner has a great cake for the centrepiece at their Jubilee party!

 I also made cupcakes, one batch in red white & blue and another were a mix of cola and caramel.

Pimms O'Clock

So its been a little bit dreary the past few days so I thought I'd try & bring the sunshine with some Pimms cuppies! Bit disappointed as the cake wasn't Pimmsy enough for my liking and the frosting was a bit melty. Won't be using that recipe again but will try another variation of a Pimms cake soon.



Mint Choc Collection

I made chocolate cakes with mint frosting today & decorated them with chocolate fondant flowers & leaves. I think they look really pretty with the soft green frosting, lets hope they taste good too!!

I was also in the mood for a bit of modelling so I made this teeny tiny bear from chocolate, he's terribly cute, not sure I'll be able to eat him!

"If you like Pina Coladas...

...and getting caught in the rain..." You guessed it. Another rainy day! So to inject a little sunshine into my life I decided to make some pina colada cupcakes. Yummy rummy pineappley coconutty goodness! First I made a rum syrup and soaked some fresh pineapple chunks in this for an hour. Then I made the cake batter using coconut milk for a smooth taste, I hate it when you get bits of coconut in your teeth. I put the rum soaked pineapple into my cases then topped this with the batter. Theyre almost like little upside down upside-down cakes! When the cakes came out of the oven I drizzled them with the left over rum syrup. Then I whipped up a rum & coconut frosting which is absolutely amazing, reminds me of  Cuba... mmmm...

Delicious Dulche de Leche

Another rainy day and I had left over caramel to use up so I made some more delicious Dulce de Leche cupcakes and decorated them with caramel swirls and white chocolate flowers

The Wonderful World of Harry Potter

I had so much fun making this cake. Last year Zack got a Lego Stormtrooper (one of my faves) and this year the birthday boy is really into Harry Potter so I knew I could make him a cake to remember. In the words of the magnificent Duff Goldman...Make it bigger, make it badder, make it awesome! I started with a spellbook made of cake, it was huuuuge! I added detail to the book and aged the pages. For the decoration I knew from the start I wanted to create some classic Harry Potter items so it had to be his glasses, the golden snitch, a Gryffindor scarf, potions, Bertie Botts Beans and a wand. It all came together so great and I was so proud of myself for pulling it off. Most definitely on my list of favourite cakes ever!