A Hot Cupcake Class!

First thing this morning you could tell it was going to be a hot and sunny day!

I love the sunshine coming through the trees in this photograph.

We had a full class for Cupcakes today, I made some raspberry and vanilla cupcakes for our breaktime.  Raspberries picked from the garden, they were inside the cupcake as well as on the top of the pink raspberry icing .... delicious.

Today's Cupcakers did brilliantly because it was ever so hot, I just kept pouring everybody more water!

Here are some of their creations:

We had a boy theme going today, because we were all Mums with boys, not a girl between us!

Birthday Cupcakes

Birthday Cupcakes made this morning, here a just a few of the 50 I made.

There were some Oreo Cupcakes, some Chocolate Heaven Cupcakes and some Pinky Vanillas.

The Chocolate Heaven Cupcakes had 70% fair trade chocolate mixed into the buttercream and were topped with Minstrels, Munchies, Maltesers and Chocolate Buttons.

I delivered them to the birthday girl at Downe House in time for the birthday celebrations!

The Making of Nicola's Wedding Cupcakes

Today started very early with the baking of 130 Vanilla Cupcakes and 12 gluten free vanilla cupcakes for Nicola's Wedding.

Nicola has been to both the Stage 1 and Stage 2 Cupcake classes, and despite everything that needed doing today, she was determined to come and decorate her wedding cupcakes!

I prepared all the different coloured icings; flavoured with fresh orange juice and zest, vanilla, blueberry, raspberry and rosewater, all coloured in pale vintage coloured colours and got swirling.

Nicola and her friends arrived, I handed over the iced cupcakes and they set to work decorating the cupcakes, whilst also eating some, obviously!

In the Stage 2 class we make the petalled flowers, and Nicola's looked fantastic today, made in pink and peach.

There were high swirls and low swirls and flat iced cupcakes, a real variety today.

And as the bride herself needed the gluten free cupcakes, I made the blue icing for "her something blue" and I thought they looked stunning with the little flowers that her and her Mum had made.

I can't wait to see the photographs of them set up on the cake stand tower at Donnington Grove Hotel.

I hope you have a great time!

Update on Cupcake Classes

Cupcake Classes are filling up for Autumn and Christmas, below is a list of classes with spaces available on them:

Saturday 8 October: 2 spaces available on Stage 2 class 10am - 12 noon and 2 spaces available on Stage 1 3pm - 5pm

Saturday 12 November: Stage 1.  1 space left.  2pm - 4pm

Tuesday 29 November: Xmas Cupcakes: 3 spaces left.  11am-1pm

Saturday 3 December: Xmas Cupcakes: 2 spaces left.  10am - 12 noon

Stage 1 Cupcakes: 5 spaces left.  3pm - 5pm

Saturday 10 December: Xmas Cupcakes.  1 space left.  2pm - 4pm.

All classes cost £50, last for 2 hours and include baking, learning about 2 types of icing, decorating and you take home 6 beautifully decorated cupcakes that you have made.  Plus a Colourful Cupcakes recipe and top tips booklet.

Please contact me to book a class

emily @treetops-newbury  .co.uk

Happy Birthday Cupcakes

I made these delicious cupcakes today for a Thatcham Town FC birthday boy!

With an extra chocolate gift box for him to take into work.

I used Maltesers, Green & Black's dark chocolate, their white chocolate, new Crunchie rocks, chocolate shavings and anything else chocolatey I could find (!), with a small sprinkle of glitter.

Happy Birthday

Birthday Girl Cupcakes

A pretty mixed box of Cupcakes for a birthday girl.

Busy making lots of fondant icing decorations today for forthcoming orders.

Cupcake Classes start soon, there are still 2 spaces left on Saturday 8 October 3pm - 5pm.

Party Cupcakes

I had a busy day making 120 Cupcakes for a party this evening, a joint party to celebrate a Silver Wedding Anniversary and a 21st Birthday.

I made 60 chocolate and 60 vanilla, with colour schemes of navy and silver.....

...... and an entire pot of glitter!

Congratulations, I hope you have a great evening.

Pink and Girly Birthday Cupcakes

A box of pink birthday cupcakes ready to go ......