Monday, September 27, 2010

More cupcakes...

It's starting to get a little repetitive with cupcakes but I've made more of them.


I made these for a friend's workplace...It's the flourless orange and almond cupcake yet again. I put in too much of the cake mix into the cupcake papers and I ended up having to cut the tops off which made the decorating challenging. Lesson learnt here to NEVER over fill the cupcake papers. Such a disappointing project for me personally and this has been bugging me all day yesterday and today.


I made use of the bumble bees I made the previous weekend. I still one wee lil' fella left...guess I'll be creating more again soon.


Bumble bees

Butterflies in white & purple

Sunny days

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Black Forest Cupcakes




Here's some nice black forest cupcakes topped with freshly whipped cream for you to drool over - there's cherries below the whipped cream. I was short of cherries to top it off with so I just grated some chocolate on the top.


My other half decided to break up a bar of Cadbury flake and put it onto the cupcakes. Full marks for him!!


I'm feeling a little peckish writing this entry...time for me to have one of these treats now.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Bzzzzzz

Delish




This is my attempt at making bumble bees...definitely need nimble fingers for this!

Sunday, September 19, 2010

More purple flowers

Gluten free orange & almond cupcakes with flower line designs




I whipped up a batch of gluten free orange and almond cupcakes this weekend. I added a layer of chocolate truffle below the icing for 6 of the cupcakes and according to my guinea pig he thinks it was delish though my preference was to have it without the chocolate truffle. Note : my guinea pig has a sweet tooth!


I tried not to overdo it with icing this time so I have spread on just enough so it levels with the paper cups and just used simple line designs with purple flowers again - I made a whole load of the flowers which I am slowly going through. I will have to use the yellow flowers up next so watch this space for when I create my next lot of little sweet temptations.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The month of many birthdays


It sure is a busy month for birthdays! This can only mean that I get to bake and decorate more cakes (or cupcakes).


I made a cake for Terence's birthday but the imagination department of my brain wasn't functioning at it's optimum so all he got was his name on the cake and bits of grass at the bottom. I'm having a 'decorators block'!


I was up late making his cake last night so I didn't get a chance to make a cookie monster cupcake as I had promised someone I would. I will have to make it for him next weekend...






baby cupcakes

Here are my other little treats I made for a colleague's birthday today. They were bite sized chocolate cupcakes with a swirl of icing and a pansy on top.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Flowers overload







 








Flowers flowers flowers...they're everywhere!



A lot of work has gone into the making of this cake. I judge this by how sore my arm is - it's pretty sore right now. Maybe it's time for me to head to the gym to do some weights and strengthening work...and to work off the creations I've been scoffing down.


I was testing a new cake recipe I found - flourless orange and almond cake. It's easy to make and it's yummy. I can't wait to try the cake with the decorations tomorrow - I don't know if I can watch the cake being cut.

I've decided I'm going to give this cake to my boss at work since it is his birthday this weekend - I'd like to see his reaction when he sees the girlie cake I've made. I have another unfinished cake in the kitchen waiting to be done up - I'm going to do more flowers and butterflies but with other colours...so watch out for the next post.


Sunday, September 5, 2010

Spring time blooms

daisy n pansy bloom - butterfly swirl - daisy n apple bloom


It's now officially Spring! Yay!


I was busy in the kitchen making another lot of merry-go-rabbits and doggie bones SPCA cupcakes for a friend's workplace and decided to design the extra cupcakes with flowers and butterflies to celebrate the longer days and extra sunshine we will get - *crossing my fingers and toes it won't be all grey and cold*

I'm still trying to get the vanilla cupcake and chocolate mud cupcake recipes perfect so I'll be on the lookout for guinea pigs to taste test my little designs.

Saturday, September 4, 2010

The world of Sesame Street











 This is my first attempt at making Cookie Monster and Elmo cupcakes as a request from my baby brother. 

Cookie monster was a walk in the park to create but Elmo proved a little more challenging. Finding Elmo a nose and a mouth was experimental to say the least! Someone had to eat up the leftover noses which were in different colours.

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