Lemon Cupcakes

Lemon Cupcakes topped with Lemon Buttercream

I'm on a roll!

A friend rang yesterday to say she'll be arriving back in Auckland today for work so I decided I'd try out a lemon cupcake recipe I have found a wee while ago. This is a 'welcome back - we missed you' treat for her.

Tiered Cake

I know! I can't believe it either - my very first tiered cake. Who would have ever thought that I would even get this far. I would used to look at these cakes wondering how these works of art were created and now I know!

This is only the beginning of what will be many more creations - I hope.

I must say that this hobby is expensive!! Along with the golf lessons this is starting to hurt my piggy bank. 

I've been looking at some courses in Australia and the UK but these will be on the 'wishlist' for someday in the future.

A Big Bunch of Flowers

I've been busy in the kitchen with making these cupcakes.


There's a few different flavours - carrot, red velvet and my favourite orange & almond. I had run out of time to whip up a batch of the white chocolate cupcakes! 


I made these cupcakes for a local temple's 10 year anniversary celebrations last weekend. The flowers took me quite a few nights to make and by the end of it I was all flowered out BUT the most important bit was that I enjoyed making the flowers.


I was supposed to have had the afternoon off from work to finish decorating the cupcakes and have them delivered by 4:00 pm before the 'Friday after work stand still traffic' but an external work meeting went right into overtime and cut into the precious hour I needed to pretty up the cupcakes so some of the cupcakes does not look like i've put much effort into them.


I've got heaps more of the flowers I made so I am going to whip up a batch of cupcakes, pretty them up and give some to my family.

                        

Football Mania

I decided a few months ago that I would attempt to make a football shaped cake for my brother's birthday and so here it is.  I'm apparently not allowed to call it soccer - it's not the done thing.


This would be one of the most difficult cakes I've ever made in my 7 months of cake decorating - I spent almost an entire day in the kitchen creating this football. I must say that there would be quite a few things I would do differently when I make my next football cake.


The template I had copied and cut out did not work well at all so I had to remove all the templates I had laid on to the cake and start over. I decided to cover the cake entirely in white fondant then cut out parts of it to be replaced with black pentagons and scoring lines to make it look like a football.


I really need to do this again - I may take up Ivan's request to fly to Singapore and make this for his birthday! =)

Happy Birthday Blue Girl

Blue Flowers

Cookie Monster

To the girl who is loves anything blue - and green sometimes....Happy 30th Birthday!!

Christy is sometimes known as cookie monster so my imagination department was given a rest and I whipped up a small batch of cookie monster cupcakes for her to have.

Since I was at it, I decided to make some swirls and blue flowers. I finally made use of my new toys - new as in unopened since last October.