Happy Valentine’s Day! To celebrate Valentine’s Day I made some love themed cupcakes as well as spending the day with my better half 😉 The cupcakes are a vanilla sponge topped with a passion fruit flavoured buttercream. For my buttercream flavouring I use Foodie Flavours Natural Flavouring. Their flavouring gives a strong flavour but as […] Read more…
As I haven’t baked in quite a while I thought I would go all out with some cupcakes and make some with unicorns on. The cupcakes are a basic vanilla sponge recipe. I have always used cupcake Jemma’s vanilla cupcake recipe as it is a very simple recipe and always come out perfect. The buttercream […] Read more…
Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends! National Cake Day and Thanksgiving fell on the same day this year so I didn’t need a lot of encouraging to do some thanksgiving cupcakes. My turkeys were made from fondant icing, the turkey itself being chocolate flavoured. I then added my turkeys to a vanilla cupcake with a […] Read more…
Pina Colada – These were perfect for the summer BBQs. I made the cupcakes with desiccated coconut inside to give that sweet coconut taste. I then made some buttercream icing and added some Malibu (alcohol) into the icing to give it a bit of an adult twist. I topped the cupcakes with a glacier cherry […] Read more…
I was asked to do a basic pig cupcake for a piggy lover’s birthday. Instead of making them 3D I thought I would just do a basic pig face that could sit on top of the cupcakes. I used a pink sugar paste to make the pigs faces. Sugar paste dries out quickly and holds its […] Read more…
These cupcakes were a thank you present for a school teacher at the end of term. As they were primary school teachers I kept to a younger theme with ABC and 123 cut out from fondant with cutters. I then made some little books and crayons from fondant and cut an apple with thank you […] Read more…
This bake is back from July, as it was July 4th in the US I thought I would join in on the baking theme even though I was thousands of miles away in the UK. So I started off by making some rice krispy treats which I would shape and colour into the american flag. I […] Read more…
These are possibly one of the most effective cupcakes I have done, they are very basic but very cute to look at. I made these for my friends little girl who loves Disney Princesses. I made the Disney princess toppers by printing out a card stencil I found online I then made them double sided […] Read more…