Delicious new Cupcake flavours

I've spent the afternoon trialling new flavours of Cupcake with my new Kitchen Aid!

The first was a Carrot Cupcake with an Orange Mascarpone Topping. It tastes very light and tangy.

My second is a gorgeous and very pretty Lime and Coconut Cupcake, which has a Lime Buttercream icing dipped into coconut shavings. They would be perfect for a Cupcake Wedding.

Cupcakes Class

We had a great class today, and the icing behaved itself despite the heat! We experimented with different colours for the icing, using pastes and liquid colours.

Cutting out butterflies, love hearts and flowers with plunger cutters using fondant icing.

Practicing the art of 'swirling', we have several attempts before we make it onto a Cupcake!

Our next class with spaces is Tuesday 22 June, 10am - 12 noon, £45.

I took some Cupcakes into the Kitchenmonger Newbury after the class, the shop is by the bridge, they have got some great Cupcake things; cases, pastes, stands, nozzles etc.

If there are a couple of you or a group of friends and you would like your own date, please call with your diary and we can arrange a date just for you.

Cupcakes for the Girls

I made these for two little girls for when they came home from school. Just what you need when you get back from school and a swimming lesson!

Cupcakes Class at Treetops

Oh what messy, dusty, buttery, twinkly fun we had this morning!

After making trayfuls of Cupcakes we mastered the art of buttercream icing at which point the kitchen disappeared under a fog of 2kg of icing sugar!

We discussed cases, nozzles, icings, ingredients, colourings, flavourings, sprinkles and glitter whilst mastering the art of 'swirling'!

The end of the morning was spent with regal icing making some lovely flowers, butterfly and love heart decorations to adorn the cupcakes.

The results were brilliant as you can see from the boxes of Cupcakes above.

Everyone left with a recipe and information booklet full of top tips. Good luck with your baking everyone and please remember to email me some photographs of your work!

New Class Date added .....

New date for Cupcake Class - Tuesday 22 June.

Spaces available are:

Thursday 17 June - FULL
Tuesday 22 June - 4 spaces
Saturday 3 July - 2 spaces
Wednesday 15 September - 2 spaces
Saturday 18 September - 3 spaces
Call me to book 01635 44 850

Simply Cupcakes

I found a lovely new nozzle in Marlow yesterday, so made some Blue and White swirl cupcakes for the weekend, the boys have had enough of pink and glittery experiments!

I've been enjoying reading an American cupcake blog titled: cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com

I'm preparing for next week's full Cupcake Class and will post you some photographs of everyone's achievements after the class!

Cherry Pie Wedding

I was at Ocean Village in Southampton yesterday, setting up some Cupcakes for a Wedding onboard Princess Caroline (www.princesscaroline.net). A great boat that can take up to 120 guests for a Wedding or Party.

The theme was Cherry Pie; with my brief to include red and silver, to be fun with also a Beano/Comic feel in places - hence the Haribo Cherries! The top tier cake was a 6" fruit cake covered in marzipan and icing and I had 7 pairs of cherries representing the 7 members of the family. I made some mini cherry-pie cupcakes, using red smarties and m&m's as the Cherries.