Baby shower cupcakes

This is my first attempt at making sleeping babies with fondant :) I found these were super easy and quick to make and got to use my quilting embosser which hasn't been used in a while! What do you think?

Hope you have a great weekend. I'm spending my Friday night cleaning up the spilled container of non-pareils :(

SPCA Cupcake Day 2012

SPCA Cupcake Day was a hit! I am so indecisive, and changed my mind. Didn't end up using my chocolate butterflies in the end... But 72 cupcakes, 6 different flavours and 36 fondant animals ALL GONE in an hour. I am so pleased, last year I only made 24...

BIG shout out to my lovely partner Kerry who so kindly looked after Eva for the day while I did my thing, and to my new friend Shannon who helped me make the cutest little animals! I'm thinking I could totally re-use the idea for a kids birthday party!

Sorry for the stink quality photos also. I reeeally would love an SLR camera for Christmas this year (hint hint!) hehe would have loved to get some great pictures of these with some natural lighting, but the three businesses I went to all wanted the cupcakes before morning tea! So was up and out the door by 9am.

Busy busy weekend ahead!

SPCA Cupcake day on Monday 27th August is coming up really quickly! And finding time to bake one batch of cupcakes can be difficult with looking after a four month old baby, let alone ten batches. So I am spending my Friday night having a go at chocolate lattice.

These are some of the first ones I made. Dark chocolate is my favourite, but I found making these were far to easy... so turned up the difficulty level and made some butterflies out of white chocolate... What do you think? I'm pretty proud of my first attempt hehe and extra pleased that the chocolate stayed runny until my sixth attempt... feels like a race against time when working with melted chocolate!

I used a wilton tip #1 for the butterflies, and piped the wings in random designs (you may notice they don't match) Fingers crossed these don't break when I put them together!

Cupcakes for Mikayla

My sister Mikayla came over this morning to learn some icing tricks, so we pulled out the mixing bowls and whipped up a batch of chocolate chip & mini vanilla cupcakes. The chocolate cupcakes were so soft and delicious, I definitely plan to make these again!

Cupcakes for Danny

Last night, I made these for a family friend's work morning tea. The pink and white ones are vanilla and marshmallow, the pink and purple ones are dark chocolate and mixed berry.
They have vanilla buttercream, I had made almond buttercream for the berry cupcakes but WHAT A FAIL. It tasted weird so I couldn't use it (maybe I just don't like almond?), and I had run out of icing sugar. At 11pm all the supermarkets were closed and the petrol stations didn't have any :( So had to get up bright and early to finish icing them. DISASTER!
I picked up the flowers from my favourite flower shop down the road, Amy's Flowers. I absolutely love fresh flowers in my house!

Vanilla cupcakes for Cheryl

Today I decorated these vanilla cupcakes similar to the red velvet ones I made on Friday. My mumma Cheryl wanted these for her good friend Hayley's birthday. I am obsessed with vanilla cupcakes. They might seem plain but they really hit the spot when I need a sugar fix. Yum!
My favourite recipe which I have used so many times is from the website vanillacupcakes.co.nz

Red velvet cupcakes for Emma

I made these red velvet cupcakes for Emma's birthday on Friday. They looked so delicious, I could have eaten them all! I find it really difficult to keep myself from eating the food I make. It definately helps to have peppermint chewing gum to get rid of the urge!