Showing posts with label cupcakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cupcakes. Show all posts

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Latest Creations



Baking is my passion but boy can it be stressful sometimes! I recently got asked to make a Minecraft cake 3 days before the child's birthday party. Panic ensued! But once I'd drawn out my ideas and plans it was down to work.


My brief: To make a Minecraft block cake out of vanilla sponge and 8 chocolate cupcakes to go around it with the child's name and age on top.


This was the final outcome:




The block was made up of 4 layers of sponge with jam and buttercream filling.





The characters were modelled out of icing sugar and I wanted to make them completely edible so I couldn't use supporting wire of wooden sticks.





A few days later I was asked to make another birthday cake. This time a much simpler Mario cake.




This was a simple sponge cake. I made templates for the decorations and cut each part out by hand.



Friday, January 31, 2014

Baking: The Gift That Keeps on Giving!



When money is tight and a friend's birthday is coming up, I always rely on baking. Last year was no exception!

Cupcakes are a great gift to those with small families, those who watch their weight, those who enjoy a sweet treat now and then and they can fit in a lunchbox!



Simple vanilla and sultana cupcake.


Vanilla sponge cupcake with a hidden jam center.


For my mothers birthday I wanted to make a sponge cake with some flavour, so I made a lemon sponge cake with lemon curd and butter cream filling.



She's a fan of lemon curd and she plays a musical instrument so I decorated it with the five lines of a bar of music and some notes and flowers.