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. 

New Year Blooms

Chinese New Year Blooms

If only you could taste these cupcakes! They're so yummy...Orange with passionfruit buttercream. Since Chinese New Year is coming up soon, I thought I'd add some pink blooms to finish off.


I wonder if it will go well with just vanilla cupcakes. 


My brother's birthday is coming up soon and he wants a sponge cake with fresh cream icing...so, guess what I'll be experimenting with next?! I've never made a sponge cake OR decorated a cake with fresh cream so this may get interesting.

Blue Blue Swirls

I had this sudden urge to be experimental last night and decided make rosewater buttercream to cover my cupcakes. A rather interesting taste but I like it.

How does passionfruit icing with vanilla cupcakes for my next experiment sound?!