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!

Golden Wedding Anniversary Cupcakes

I made two dozen golden cupcakes for a Golden Wedding Anniversary today.

They were decorated with golden flowers, love hearts, sprinkles, balls, glitter and the couple's initials.

They looked really pretty and sparkly.

Congratulations!

Chocolate Birthday Cupcakes

Happy Birthday Holly, I can't believe your birthday has come around again so quickly!

Holly chose chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream and chocolate tops, and her other choice was vanilla cupcakes with chocolate buttercream and white chocolate tops!

With lots of glitter.

Enjoy your party

xx

Cupcakes for Christine Scott Interiors

Christine was having another Open Day at her lovely studio, tucked away in the countryside near Newbury, with tea and cakes.

It was a chance to see all the beautiful fabrics, ask for advice and pick up some interior design tips.

And yes, having delivered them I did succumb to some gorgeous warm curtain fabric and a curtain pole!

Christine Scott Interiors

Home Made Turkish Delight

Having made some Cupcakes recently with the buttercream icing infused with Rosewater, I've not been able to get the thought of Turkish Delight out of my mind.

I found a great recipe in November's copy of Good Housekeeping Magazine, once I'd got over the 700g of caster sugar (!) it was quite easy to follow and I left it to set overnight, and now I have a tin of delicious pink and sparkly (obviously having so much glitter in the house I had to use it) Turkish Delight.

My next step will be to make some more Cupcakes with a small piece of Turkish Delight sitting on the top.  Yum!

Latest Cupcake Class Availability

I have taken lots of bookings lately, so here is the up-to-date list of availability:

Tuesday 29 November 11am - 1pm

 Xmas Cupcakes: 2 spaces left

Saturday 3 December 3pm - 5pm

Stage 1:  5 spaces left

Saturday 10 December  2pm - 4pm

Xmas Cupcakes: 1 space left

The classes cost £50, this includes all your ingredients, materials, recipes and 6 cupcakes that you have decorated to take home.

The classes are held at Treetops in Wash Common, Newbury, 5 minutes from Newbury Station and 10 minutes from Junction 13 of the M4.

For other classes at Treetops, such as Watercolour, Sewing, Flowers and Aga Cookery please visit the website above or my other blog:

 treetops-newbury.blogspot.com

A Beautiful day for a Wedding

Congratulations to Georgina and Chris on their Wedding today.

What a perfect sunny day.

The room at Donnington Valley Hotel in Newbury looked gorgeous.

The themes for the Cupcake Tower were vintage colours, flowers, butterflies, berries and it tied in so well with the flowers on the tables.

Congratulations also to Elsie who was being christened today and had her highchair throne at the top table!