Honeybee Cupcakes

I loved making these birthday Cupcakes today!

It made a nice change to move away from Christmas colours and back to vibrant pink, purple, green and turquoise.

The little bees were quite fiddly, especially the small hearts I attached for their wings, but they are very cute and well worth the effort.

Happy 12th Birthday Honey, I hope you had a great party.

Christmas Cupcake Class

We had the last class of term today.

Still festive, sparkly and smelling delicious.

Today's class really enjoyed creating their buttercream rose swirls.

Happy Christmas!

Cupcake Class

We recently had a Christmas Cupcake Class, there were plenty of lovely fondant icing shapes created.

Along with all of my sprinkles and glitters, there was a huge choice of sparkly things to decorate the Cupcakes with.

Christmas Cupcake Class - 29 Nov 2011

We had our first Christmas Cupcake Class of the year on Tuesday, the smells of mixed spice, cinnamon, oranges (and the rum!) were fantastic.

We made some delicious orange and spicy cupcakes with mixed fruit finely chopped inside, and then we made various flavours of buttercream icing.

We had a great production line of snowflakes, stars, trees, robins and reindeers to decorate the cupcakes with afterwards! 

2012 Cupcake Class Dates - NEW!!!

Saturday 21 January: Cupcakes Stage 2  10am - 12 noon

Monday 30 January: Cupcakes Stage 1  11am - 1pm

Saturday 11 February:  Cupcakes Stage 1  2pm - 4pm

Wednesday 29 February: Cupcakes Stage 1  10.30am - 12.30pm

Saturday 24 March: Cupcakes Stage 2  10am - 12 noon

Saturday 24 March: Easter Cupcakes 3pm - 5pm

(Please note that you must have attended a Stage 1 class at Treetops before booking a Stage 2 class).

All classes cost £50 and include all materials, ingredients, a top tip/recipe booklet to take home, along with 6 of your beautifully created cupcakes!)

Cupcake Class Saturday 13 November 2011

A great cupcake class today, using an array of colours, all the boxes looked so different.

We baked the Cupcakes, and whilst they were in the Aga, we made some fondant decorations and then covered the kitchen with a cloud of icing sugar as we made the buttercream icing.

It's really tricky to get the swirl right, but with the right nozzle and some patience some lovely swirls decorated the cupcakes.

Chocolate Heaven Cupcakes

A lovely sweet smelling start to the weekend.

A gift box of Chocolate Heaven Cupcakes.

Adorned with rolos, minstrels, maltesers and Green & Black chocolate chunks.

Stage 1 Cupcake Class - Saturday 3 December - Book Now!

Come and learn how to bake, make and decorate some beautifully iced Cupcakes in December.

The Stage 1 Cupcake Class is on Saturday 3 December from 3pm - 5pm.

Children aged 12 and over are welcome if accompanied by an adult.

We will cover baking, make some fondant icing decorations and learn the skills for great buttercream.

You will then decorate 6 Cupcakes to take home with you, with the great array of sprinkles, glitters and decorations that I have at Treetops.

The class costs £50 and includes all your ingredients, a recipe/top tips booklet and 6 cupcakes to take home with you.

Stage 2 Cupcake Class in January!!

For those of you who have been to a Cupcake Class at Treetops this year, I have a date for the Stage 2 Class, it is on

Saturday 21 January

10am - 12 noon

£50

To book please contact me as soon as possible, as the places will go very quickly!

Colourful Birthday Cupcakes

Back to work after a half term break, to make some colourful cupcakes for a birthday girl at Downe House School.

Happy Birthday!

Last 2 Christmas Cupcake Class spaces .....

The final TWO spaces are available on our Christmas Cupcake Class on Tuesday 29 November.

The class runs from 11am - 1pm.

Cost £50 to include all of your ingredients, a recipe and top tips booklet and 6 of your beautifully baked and decorated cupcakes to take home.

Cupcake Class Saturday 8 October 2011

A great class this afternoon.

Plenty of baking questions as our golden cupcakes came out of the Aga.

Clouds of icing sugar as we whipped up the buttercream.

And pretty colours used to tint the fondant shapes.

Bright and Beautiful!

Stage 2 Cupcake Class

We started the day off with a Stage 2 Cupcake class, sat around the kitchen table with lots of new nozzles and tools to play with.

Using flower/gum paste and fondant we shaped some flowers and butterflies, then went onto small bud roses, and then the larger fondant rose.  Making each little petal and gently shaping them into place. Everyone did so well today, the flowers and colours were fantastic.

We then moved onto our little flower nail and new nozzle and made some beautiful buttercream roses and carnations.  Great to practice before putting them directly onto the cupcakes.

Here are the boxes that left Treetops today - I'm so impressed!

Red Velvet Cupcakes

This is a colour to wake you up in the morning!

I was up so early, I could hear the owls in the woods.....

This is the mixture, vibrant and red for Red Velvet Cupcakes.

There is a mix of cocoa, buttermilk, white wine vinegar and bicarbonate in the cake mixture.

We talk about these cupcakes (and eat them!) in our Stage 2 Cupcake Class.

Here they are going into the Aga..... 

.... and here they are after 20 minutes

Red Velvet Cupakes have a classic cream cheese frosting, with some cake crumbs (and red glitter!) sprinkled on the top.

Delicious!