Pastel Rainbow and Clouds

Bird's eye view of the cake

Over the rainbow

   

It has been such a long time since I last posted. My excuse? I had a little baby girl sometime in September last year so she has been keeping me on my toes and no time for caking. Well, I lie. I do have a bit of time but that is to tidy up the house after her and whatever else that needs done. I don't know how my mum did it with us and now I know that I've got my own wee little one I really appreciate all the things my mum has done for me - not that I didn't before.

Anyway, before I fill you in on my life story for the last year I better start on the cake I made this week for Anya's 5th birthday.

Anya's mum requested a simple cake and had given me all the freedom to design something for Anya. Do you know what this does to me?! I had so many ideas going through my head I ended up with doing something 'plain' so it would be a safe design. *Sigghhhh*

I only found out this morning that Anya was having a pirate themed party at Chipmunks!! *Kicking myself in the leg* If I had known, I could have done a pirate ship cake or a treasure chest or even a treasure map cake...the list goes on.

I did know that I would like to put the tutorials from Lesley at The Royal Bakery to some use so I incorporated the clouds and '5' into the design of the cake. I hope I did her tutorials some justice!

This is my first attempt at painting on fondant, it was a little nerve wrecking as I was worried I would make a mistake and that would be the end of it for me. Can you imagine how time consuming it would be to rip the fondant off the cake and re do it all?

There is a slither of hope that I can bake a bit more after my little one starts at daycare but I will also be back at work part time so maybe not. We'll see how it goes.

Enjoy!

Chocolate Vegan Cupcake

Choccy Vegan Cupcakes

My new toys

I borrowed a book from the local library and found a chocolate vegan cupcake recipe. The recipe was quick and easy to make plus the icing was...let's just say finger licking good. My next mission is to make it look a wee bit nicer than the quickie job I've done tonight.

My new butterfly plunger cutters arrived this morning so I ripped open the packaging and tested my new toy out.

So much for my list of cupcakes to bake from my previous post. I have all these recipes I would like to try out but there is only so many hours in a day and so many my guinea pigs can take before they have a cupcake burnout.

Fairy Cake

Claire in her garden

It's mid month now and I have just realised that I have not posted anything since the 1st.

Here it is, Claire in her garden of flowers and butterflies.

I was 'experimenting' with a new white chocolate mud cake recipe I found online and this is what became of the cake. I'm just not sure if I would want to cut the cake up!

My next project will be a chocolate cake with chocolate mouse filling. I'm getting hungry just thinking of it!

Claire - The Sugar Fairy

Claire - The Sugar Fairy

Here I present to you, Claire - The Sugar Fairy.

I am thinking of creating some friends for her to keep her company so watch this space!

It's been a while

I can't believe it's been more than a month since I last posted anything...I have been busy at work - yes I do have a day job though I wish that my day job would be creating pretty yummy things rather than sitting in front of a computer all day long. And I've just been on a quick trip to attend a girlfriend's wedding - amazing wedding and an embarrassing one at a certain point. 


Just so you know, I won't have time to bake anything for wee while as I will be away in a place without a kitchen which I could use to bake cakes and cookies - not that I will have the time anyway. 


I made more butterfly cupcakes about a month ago - I was attempting to use all the butterflies I  had made the previous week. For the swirls, I decided to use 2 tones to be a little different but they're still very girlie pastel colours.

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

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.