I first tried the Tiramisu cupcakes at the Hummingbird Bakery in London and since their new recipe book came out, I have been dying to try them out! This is the second batch I’ve made and they turned out much better and less messy. Continue reading “Tiramisu Cupcakes”
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”
A few Sunday’s ago, I had a stall set up at the Fenny Poppers festival – it was lucky that the sun came out and the rain stayed away!
I made about 400 cupcakes in preparation for the event, in the two days running up to it. I spent Friday baking all the bases (vanilla, chocolate, lemon, carrot cake and chocolate orange) and all Saturday making the frosting and decorating the cupcakes. This time, I branched out and introduced a couple of new flavours – Strawberry Trifle (with a real strawberry on top), Chocolate Orange, Oreo and Carrot Cake. Along with these, there were the standard vanilla, chocolate and lemon cupcakes. Continue reading “Fenny Poppers Festival”
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”
Another order complete! 8 inch, 2 layer carrot cake, with cream cheese frosting. Originally it was to be a 3 layer cake but the layers turned out much thicker than expected, so only 2 layers were used. Continue reading “Carrot 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!”