Stage 2 Cupcake Class - 21 April 2012

A very hard working group this morning, who created beautiful looking cupcakes.

This was our Stage 2 class, for people who have already been to Stage 1.

We covered gum paste, flower paste, shaping paste using ball tools and foam, and created rose buds and large petalled roses.

A little later, we made the spectacular buttercream flowers directly onto the cakes.

I think they all looked very pretty!

Wednesday's Cupcake Class

We had a lovely class this morning, very calm with pastel shades. 

They all looked delicious and very pretty. 

We spent time making our buttercream especially light and fluffy.

Two of our ladies were in practice for making family wedding cupcakes this year, so we spent time talking about making and baking for large events.

Here is one of today's Cupcakes in a pretty wrapper, perfect for weddings.

If you have been to one of our Cupcake Classes, the Stage 2 class is now open for bookings on Saturday 21 April 9.45am - 12.15pm.  £60.

January Stage 2 Cupcake Class

The morning started early with me making some gorgeous Red Velvet Cupcakes with a vanilla creamcheese frosting, sprinkled with cake crumbs.

We enjoyed eating them whilst talking about the recipe and the frosting!

Today's group were here to take their skills a stage further.  We looked at a new nozzle that created the beautiful buttercream flower below.

Using gum paste and fondant paste we made small rose buds and large petalled rose flowers.

Fiddly and time consuming but fun!

Practice practice practice.....

Then it was the fun part, decorating!  Swirling, glittering and sprinkling. 

Here are today's AMAZING cupcakes that were taken home.

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

Stage 2 Cupcake Classes

For those of you who have been to a class already, I have a Stage 2 class, just for you.

Working with flower paste, and buttercream, we will work on some pretty flowers and also different nozzles for piping.  Come and learn how to take your skills further.

Dates are:

Friday 24 June 11am - 1pm

Saturday 8 October 3pm-5pm

£50 to include all your materials and 6 cupcakes to take home with you.

  

Stage 2 - Cupcake Class

This afternoon was our first Stage 2 Cupcake Class.

  This class is for people who have already been to our Stage 1 Class and the idea is that we are able to take the skills and techniques learnt forward to another level, and give ourselves time to learn some useful (and slightly more complicated!) skills.

This shows a section of the kitchen all set up and ready to go.  I had already baked this morning, so we could concentrate on decorative skills and icing techniques.

We spent some time with fondant icing and gum paste, we made cut-out flowers and did some shaping and styling of them.  They looked fantastic.

We made some miniature fondant roses, very fiddly but they just take practice and then we made lots of petals to create a large rose (shown above).  Despite the nerves, they looked beautiful, really impressive!

Below are some of the beautiful boxes of decorated Cupcakes that went home this afternoon.  (We had a bit of a Valentine February theme going on!)