My friend celebrated her birthday this past weekend, if you know her, you will understand that she has a slight obsession with using excessive emoticons and exclamation marks in her messages. So, I thought, what better than a set of emoticon cupcakes to celebrate her birthday. Continue reading “A Very Smiley Birthday”
The orders are slowly starting to come in! I had an order for another carrot cake – this time it was for a 60th birthday. The order was for a 10 inch, 2 layer carrot cake, covered with cream cheese frosting and decorated with orange roses. Continue reading “Carrot Cake – 60th Birthday”
This is a bigger, cake version of the lemon meringue cupcakes I made a few weeks ago – a 3 layer, lemon sponge sandwiched together with lemon curd and covered with meringue.
I doubled my cupcake recipe for the sponge, which was more than enough for 3 layers. I cut down some of the sponge to make it more even, which meant I had to be extra careful to not get crumbs in the meringue covering. Continue reading “Lemon Meringue Birthday Cake”
Last week, I finished an order for 17th birthday racing-themed cupcakes. There were 24 cupcakes in total, a dozen were vanilla flavoured and the other dozen, chocolate flavoured. Continue reading “Get Set…. Go!”
A few weeks ago, I received my first order (very exciting!) for a dozen vanilla and rose cupcakes for a birthday. I was given the opportunity to decorate them however I wanted – as long as they were vanilla and rose flavoured. As Pauline, the lady who ordered the cakes, is a big Liverpool supporter, I decided to make some football/LFC themed cupcakes and alongside them, a couple of ‘girlier’ cupcakes. Continue reading “Liverpool FC Cupcakes”
My sister celebrated her first day of no longer being a teenager on Thursday – Happy Birthday Steph – best way to celebrate? With a cake of course! She had to carry this on a long car journey back to Uni, so I hope it made there it one piece and it tasted alright too. I’m hoping it’s quite obvious what the cake is representing.. doctor’s lab coat, stethoscope… you get the picture?! Continue reading “Doctor, Doctor..”
I thought of making an iPhone cake for Jak’s birthday, then I realised it was probably a little out of my league and I didn’t want to mess up his birthday cake (maybe next year), so my alternative was to make some iPhone app sugar cookies. Continue reading “iPhone App Cookies”