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!

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!

Strawberry and Chocolate Wedding Cupcakes

Here a selection of some of the Cupcakes I made early this morning, my bride wanted half to be chocolate and the other half vanilla topped with a fresh strawberry.

I used Green and Black's Cocoa Powder to get a kick of chocolate in the cake and 72% dark madagascan chocolate melted into the buttercream icing. 

The cupcakes were then topped with an assortment of chocolate buttons, maltesers, chunks of chocolate, honeycomb sprinkles, grated chocolate and silver glitter.

The strawberries smelt delicious this morning, their flavour mixes beautifully with vanilla buttercream.

I delivered them to the Halfway Bistro (http://www.thehalfwaybistro.com) on the A4 between Newbury and Hungerford, the Wedding table looked lovely.

(and having looked at their reviews on tripadvisor it looks a great place to go for a meal, it's currently 2nd in Newbury Restaurants, I think I will be going back!)

Vineyard Wedding Fayre Biscuits

Billions of biscuits!!

Well, 200 glittery pinky ones, made for today's Wedding Fayre at The Vineyard hotel.

Hello, if you came to this blog via the Fayre.

I make Cupcakes for Weddings, birthdays, parties and gifts in my Aga at home (which is registered with West Berkshire council).   I also hold a Level 2 Award in Food Safety, from the Institute of Environmental Health.

There are lots of photographs on the blog, but please contact me for any further information.

I also run classes at Treetops in Newbury, where over 2 hours you can learn to make, bake and decorate your own Cupcakes.  You receive plenty of advice and tips and can enjoy the abundance of sprinkles, decorations and cutters that I have here.

Current classes with spaces are:

Tuesday 29 March - Easter Cupcakes 11am-1pm

*NEW* Wednesday 11 May - Cupcakes 11am - 1pm

*NEW* Friday 24 June 11am - 1pm (Stage 2 for those who have been to Stage 1)

Saturday 7 May - Cupcakes 2pm - 4pm

Saturday 18 June - Cupcakes 2pm - 4pm

Saturday 9 July - Cupcakes 2pm - 4pm

Winter Wedding Cupcakes

I had a busy morning making 80 pretty and sparkling Cupcakes for a Wedding at The Canarvon Arms just outside of Newbury.

There were 40 of my favourite lime & coconut, with 40 simply vanilla.

The Carnarvon Arms was definitely a warm and cosy place to be this evening, it was a foul and foggy journey to get there.