More Cupcakes

We had our monthly crop last Saturday and although I saw Lynn on her birthday, our crop friends didn't so we celebrated again!

I made these cupcakes for the occassion.

Vanilla Roses

A new recipe found on the internet for Coffee Walnut Cupcakes.

The recipe said makes 12 but the were very shallow so I unwrapped some and sandwiched them together with coffee buttercream.

And some with Glace icing as Sue doesn't like buttercream.

Here is Lynn with her candles :)

Happy Birthday again Lynn

xx

Calorie Free Cupcakes....

Following on from the circle card challenge, I made this one.

The circle was cut from a 6x6" card with a circle cutter, topped with a circle of patterned card from my collection. The cupcake stamped images were given to me by a friend - sorry I can't remember who :( - and were coloured using Copics.

I cut the bunting from the same backing sheet and added with 3d foam.

Below is a close up of the cupcakes, glossy accents and a white gel pen were used to highlight the sprinkles and cherries.

And the best thing about these is.....No calories!

xxx

Cupcakes for Easter

I'm a little behind on my blogging :)

I made these for an order for Easter presents.

The daisies are wafers by Dr Oetker.

Here are the different colours.

And boxed, ready to go.

At the same time I made some for my work colleagues son's birthday.

I added chocolate stars to these ones.

Happy Birthday James.

Having made all of these I didn't even have one - I gave all sweet things and crips etc up for lent!

Happy Birthday Anita - a little early :)

On Saturday at Cardinal Colours Crop we celebrated Anita's Birthday - a little early I know but we won't see her again til the end of the month.
This is the card I made for her.
I used a 6x6" version of BG Nook and Pantry paper for the background and layered with an embossed sheet of white card then a frame cut with a Marianne die.

The image is House Mouse and is coloured with Copic pens aswell as some gellyroll glitter pens.

I distressed the edge and inked before adding with 3d pads.

A few roses from my stash were place under the image and a CWC greeting mounted onto an SU punched oval which I have stickled with gold.

I made Chocolate Orange Cupcakes for the occassion decorated with Orange jellies and Lindt Intensly Orange Chocolate pieces. Here they are ready in the box to go.

Oh, I forgot to mention the edible glitter too!

A close-up :)


Believe it or not I didn't have one as I have given up sweet things for lent, especially chocolate!

Happy Birthday Anita, hope you had a lovely day and will enjoy your birthday on the 21st.

50th Birthday Cupcakes

I was pleased to be asked to make some cupcakes for one of my colleagues.

Her husband is 50 and having a party tomorrow.

We discussed the design and she asked for an edible 50 to be on each cake, this is the result.

Vanilla sponge with vanilla buttercream sprinkled with edible glitter.

I created the plaque by cutting scalloped circles in fondant I had coloured pale blue.

The numbers are from a new set of cutters I bought as the ones I had were a little to big.

It's hard to get the fondant out of the shapes too as they are less than 1" high.

It's the first time I had made plaques so was fairly happy with the result. Had I more time I think I would have piped dots in the scallops with royal icing too for definition.

An alternative batch was made too with Pure Soya spread as her daughter is lactose intolerant.

These were identified with the addition of a small pink icing flower (ready-made).

I had been talking to Lynn about these and she had used Pure before, she said that it didn't rise as well as using margarine, so I added some baking powder and filled the cases higher.

A separate batch of buttercream was made with it too but as the spread is more "loose" I had to add a lot of icing sugar to thicken for piping consistancy.

A cup-cake order x 2

My friend Lesley had seen my rose cupcakes (for Nicola's last day at work) on Facebook and asked if I'd make some for her daughter's birthdays, which I did - 24 glittered white roses.

I've been taking some to work each week for the girls and was asked (by the boss no less!) to make some for a party she was having on Saturday.

I made 12 mini Victoria sponge cupcakes with strawberry jam and vanilla buttercream.

As they were for the last night of the proms I put them in red/white & blue/white cases.

(Hope she liked them!)

Surprised by this order, I put it on Facebook again.

Lesley contacted me and asked for a further 16 - any design/flavour so, here's the result.

Chocolate peanut butter...

Chocolate Orange....

Peppermint Cream...

and Vanilla of course...

I'm really enjoying making them and who knows, I could get more orders too?

More baking & Zoe's birthday cake(s)

The beginning of September was our monthy crop at Cardinal Colours.

Zoe was due to join us again but unfortunately was under the weather and unable to come.

It's her birthday this month so we had a few treats lined up - which we just had to eat ourselves!

We did think of you Zoe while tucking in though!

Anita made the most amazing chocolate fudge cake complete with bunting and deliciously embellished with "sprout"

Sprouts are cool - see, he's wearing shades!

I added to the calories with Lemon Surprise Cup-cakes.

Sorry you couldn't be there Zoe :(

Still can't share what I made craft-wise though....all will be revealed soon!

Sunday I decorated the following cupcakes for work...

Coffee Cream with Hotel Chocolate's chocolate covered coffee beans!

Coconut Cream with Strawberry jam..

Two tone vanilla roses

TFL

xxx

Crocs, cats and cupcakes...(Croc photo added again!)

Did anyone watch Croc Man last week?
The photo below shows the tank that caused the problems by leaking.
Inside is one of the Siamese Crocodiles, they were thought to be 2 females and 1 male but all 3 were girls.
They don't get on so have had to be separated unfortunately :(

And here's another one of our Daisy...

Something much more cuddly is our George in his favourite sleeping position....

I was lucky enough to be bought some more flowers too, shown below in the new vase from the Next sale.
The vase matches the new decor well, you can see the reflection of the new wallpaper in the mirror.
Hydranga heads last so well if you look after them, trimmed every other day and placed into fresh warm water, the white ones lasted a whole month! And below that? Ariel decided it was a good place to sit!

This weekend I made loads of cupcakes. Nicola at work is getting married on Saturday and so I thought they'd be a nice treat for her last day in the office (Tuesday).

These ones are Lavender scented...

These are filled with Lemon Curd and iced with lemon buttercream....

And above, the obligatory roses dusted with irridescent glitter.

Good Luck Nicola and John - Enjoy your day!

xxx

What a weekend!

Tomorrow, Monday, is my last day at my current job and I wanted to make

cupcakes to take in.

On Saturday morning I got up and started to make the cake mix when the Kenwood Chef blew up!

Yes, blew up, made a crackling noise and started chucking out thick black smoke!

Once I had unplugged it double quick and put it outside I realised that my plans had just gone out the window - well the front door to be literal.

If the truth be known, the mixer was about 35-40 years old as it belonged to my Mother originally so it has done very well really.

I had to revert to the Kenwood food processor which, although good, is not as good as the Chef and also a hand blender.

With a lot more effort and hard work, I managed to make the cakes - 45of them in total.

Then I made Lavender Shortbread too, but was not 100pc happy with the result.

Sunday came and Lynn popped round to play (scrapbooking), I was in the middle of my second attempt at Lavender shortbread at the time :)

When she had gone I set about the buttercream topping, again with the processor.

These are the resuts.....

Iced to look like roses...

Some packed for work...

with irridescent edible glitter..

and purple...(and pink - not photographed)

Some for us at home.

Once the buttercream had run out, I juiced the lemons, the rind of which was used for the shortbread, to make some glace icing.

Mmmmm, no pictures of the shortbread, shall have to take some tomorrow.

Then off to the craft room to make the following for Georgia.

She had liked the Faye Whittaker decoupage cards which I made last week but wanted three children on it as her sister has two girls and one boy.

I used two sheets of decoupage and added the boy into this image.

Below is a close up.

On a more positive note, my lovely husband has been on the internet and ordered me a new Kenwood Chef which will be delivered on Tuesday - I am a very lucky girl!