Winter Wedding Cupcakes

I had a busy morning making 80 pretty and sparkling Cupcakes for a Wedding at The Canarvon Arms just outside of Newbury.

There were 40 of my favourite lime & coconut, with 40 simply vanilla.

The Carnarvon Arms was definitely a warm and cosy place to be this evening, it was a foul and foggy journey to get there.

Christmas Cupcake Gift Box

Happy Christmas Everyone!

I hope you had a lovely day yesterday.

I spent Christmas Eve baking........

Christmas Day cooking.........

and Boxing Day chilling!..........

 

Car Birthday Cupcakes

Happy 30th Birthday to Martin

I took a break from Christmas Cupcakes today and made 30 Car themed cupcakes.

 15 Vanilla and 15 Chocolate.

The Chocolate Cupcakes are made with Green and Black's gorgeous cocoa powder and the icing has Lindt's 70% dark melted chocolate stirred in.  Just inhaling the chocolate smells whilst baking gave me my fix for the day!

School Staff Room Mini Cupcakes!

A box of Christmas Mini Cupcakes for the Staff Room.

Christmas Gift Cupcakes

I made these for a little boy to give to his teacher on the last day of term.

Final Cupcake Class of 2010

I'm so pleased that the snow melted and we were able to have today's Christmas Cupcake Class, it was a lovely class, with lots of pretty sparkly designs.

Much better to be mellow and swirling/glittering in the kitchen than battling around the shops!

I'm going to miss my snowflake cutters after Christmas, they are so pretty.

Spring Class Dates for 2011

Saturday Dates:

(2pm - 4pm)

5 February - Stage 2 Cupcakes (if you have been before, this will take you a stage further)

19 February - Stage 1

5 March - Stage 1

2 April - Easter Cupcakes

(SPACES ARE DISAPPEARING ALREADY, PLEASE BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT)

Weekday Classes:

(11am - 1pm)

Wednesday 26 January - Stage 1

Friday 18 February - Stage 1

Wednesday 9 March - Stage 2

Wednesday 23 March - Stage 2

Tuesday 29 March - Easter Cupcakes

 

Classes cost £50 and include all materials, 6 decorated cupcakes of yours to take home and a recipe/top tips booklet.

Christmas Cupcake Class 23 November

We were definitely multi-tasking today, as we had festive cupcakes and vanilla cupcakes on the go, as well as gluten free AND dairy free.

After taste-tasting, we decided they were all delicious!

Christmas Cupcake Class 22 Nov

Another Festive Cupcakes Day!

And still there are some great and original designs being created.

6 very sparkly boxes of cupcakes were taken home.

Amended Saturday Dates

I have had to make a slight change to Saturday dates, they are now:

Saturday 19 February

Saturday 5 March

Saturday 2 April - Easter Cupcakes

All Saturday classes run from 2pm - 4pm and cost £50.

Cupcakes for Triplets

Here is a selection from a box I made today, of 3 different shades of Cupcakes.

They were a gift for some Triplets.

I finished them with some silver glitter and a white chocolate button.

2011 Spring Cupcake Class Dates

Finally, the dates are now arranged for Spring classes:

Wednesday 26 January

Friday 18 February

Wednesday 23 March - Stage 2 Class (for those of you who have been before)

Tuesday 29 March - Easter Theme

Weekday classes run from 11am - 1pm

As mentioned before the Saturday dates are:

19 February

5 March - Stage 2 Class (new date added)

12 March

2 April - Easter Cupcakes

Saturday classes run from 2pm - 4pm

All classes cost £50 and include all your ingredients, materials, 6 Cupcakes for you to decorate and take home along with a recipe booklet with tips and advice.

To book, please contact me asap as these classes book up very quickly.

(gift vouchers are available for Christmas presents, they are valid for 6 months)

Final space for 2010 available!

I've got one space left on next week's Tuesday Cupcake Class.

10am - 12 noon

Tuesday 23 November

£45

Learn to bake, decorate, swirl, sprinkle and more!

Decorate 6 cupcakes to take home with you.

Birthday Boy Blue Cupcakes

Bright and beautiful Cupcakes for a 4 year old boy's birthday

Topped with haribo sweets, maltesers, chocolate buttons, mini smarties and glitter.

Have a fun birthday!

Coffee, Chocolate and nuts!

Here are some birthday cupcakes I made this morning, 6 with chocolate and nut sponge, topped with dark chocolate buttercream, nuts and chocolate.

The other 6 are coffee sponge with vanilla and coffee swirl buttercream icing, topped with chocolate coated coffee beans.

Delicious!

Thorngrove Christmas Fair

It's been an incredibly busy but fun weekend.

I baked and decorated approximately 160 Cupcakes from 8am - 11pm on Saturday (with a break for Strictly!) and I spent today at Thorngrove's Christmas Fair (with great help and assistance from my sister Katy!)

Thank you to everyone who visited the stall to say hello and buy Cupcakes.

There were some great stalls in the hall, two of my favourites were:

www.jojoglassdesign.co.uk

beautiful engraved glass items, bowls, hurricane lamps, glasses, etc

the designs included bees, dragonflies, guinea fowl, animals, or you can have a date or a message of your choice engraved.

www.christmas-farm.com

gorgeous deli items such as pickles, relishes, elderflower cordial

delicious turkey, geese and meat - with orders being taken for Christmas

they are based in Enborne near Newbury

If you would like some Cupcakes for Christmas please make your order soon, as slots are disappearing!

Festive Box of Cupcakes

I made these Cupcakes for a raffle at a local school's Christmas Fayre.

Preparing for Christmas Fayre

The preparations are underway for my stall at Thorngrove School's Christmas Fayre this Sunday.

I'm making all the fondant cut-out festive shapes this afternoon so that they can harden before decorating the Cupcakes.

I need to shop for yet more butter and icing sugar ready for the bake-athon!

I have plenty of ideas rolling around in my head, but at the moment I am thinking of Christmas Cupcakes, Oreo Cupcakes, Chocolate Cupcakes and Pinky Cupcakes.

You will be able to buy the Cupcakes individually or in gift boxes.

Book Classes for 2011

Buy Gift Vouchers

Order Cupcakes for forthcoming birthdays and parties

Buy items from my little shop of goodies

The Fayre is from 12.30pm - 4pm

Thorngrove School, The Mount, Highclere.

Christmas Cupcake Class

It was great to be baking yestedray, tucked away from the foul weather.

I had a Thorngrove School group of Mums in for a Christmas Cupcake Class.

They were very creative!

 

 I'm very glad that my delivery of new glitters arrived yesterday, as there has been a huge amount of glitter sprinkling this week!

www.thorngroveschool.co.uk

2011 Saturday Cupcake Class Dates

NEW 2011 DATES!

I have some 2011 Saturday dates for you:

19 February

12 March

2 April

All classes are from 2pm to 4pm.

The price is £50; this includes all your ingredients, materials, a recipe and tips booklet to take home along with your 6 beautifully decorated cupcakes!

First Festive Cupcake Class - Monday 8 November

Today was our first Festive Cupcakes Class.

I feel that the Christmas Season has now begun, with the mixed spice and orange smells coming from the Aga and with my favourite Crabtree & Evelyn NOEL candle lit.

The kitchen was covered in glitter this morning as well as the usual icing sugar blizzard!

The Cupcakes looked fantastic in their posh new little boxes, covered in their festive shapes; trees, baubles, stars, snowflakes, wreaths etc

A great start to the festive classes at Treetops ...

To see other classes visit www.treetops-newbury.co.uk

More Birthday Cupcakes!

It was a busy week of birthdays!

Here are Saturday's pretty dozen.

Birthday Cupcakes

I made 17 Cupcakes this morning for a 17 year old birthday girl.

The drive over to Downe House, the school where I delivered them to, was so golden and autumny, everywhere is looking so pretty, although the wind does seem to want to rid the trees of all their leaves!

Enjoy your birthday!

(www.downehouse.net)

Festive Cupcakes

I've been having a lovely messy play this morning, trying out a variety of Christmas Cupcakes for the forthcoming classes.

The kitchen smells of oranges, rum, mixed spice, cinnamon and almonds .... delicious!

I've been making snowflakes, robins, baubles, holly leaves and finding all my red, silver and gold themed sprinkles and glitters.

There are just a few spaces left on the Christmas Cupcake classes:

1 space left this coming Monday 9th November  (10am - 12 noon)

2 spaces left on Thursday 11th November  (11am - 1pm)

1 space left on Tuesday 23 November  (10am -12 noon)

Birthday Oreo Cake & Mini Cupcakes

Oreos, oreos, everywhere!

It was Helena's 14th Birthday today, so I made a 2-tier Chocolate Cake, filled with Oreo Buttercream, and iced all over with dark chocolate buttercream.

On the top were 9 mini Oreo Cupcakes, in the shape of an "H".  The minis were vanilla sponge baked with half a mini oreo at the bottom of each one,  swirled with Oreo Buttercream and topped with a mini oreo.

To accompany this giant delicious chocolate cake was a box of 25 mini oreo cupcakes.

Delicious Birthday Cakes

Happy 8th Birthday to Ellouise

A delicious chocolate cake with a vanilla buttercream layer, topped with Dairy Milk chocolate, white chocolate icing and sprinkles.

Accompanied by 30 pink, cream and purple cupcakes, the photo has made them look a different shade though  All very sparkly and pretty!

Enjoy your party! x

Pink Cupcakes

Here are a selection of some Cupcakes I made for a 14 year old girl's birthday party today.

Happy Birthday!