Rustic Vanilla Cupcakes

These were made in a hurry to satisfiy Gary, my nephew, in case he didn't like carrot cake which he didn't!!  Just a simple vanilla cupcake recipe covered with left over cream cheese icing and filled with strawberry jam. 
Only critisism I received from Gary was that the mini cakes needed more balls!  Sorry I'll sort that for next time x

Carrot Cupcakes

These were made for my future sister in-law, she's a big carrot cake fan!  Recipe I used for the Carrot Cake was from Rachel Allen, Bake, got the cream cheese recipe from Eat!  Topped with sugarpaste carrots. 
Tried two icing techniques, think I prefer the zig zag one.

Birthday Cake for my Mum

 

For my mum's birthday this year I went for a vanilla sponge smothered with buttercream.  I'm a bit disappointed with the haphazard writing though, will have to keep practising.  Anyways my lovely mother liked it and it tasted a lot better than it looked.  Recipe was from Primrose Bakery.

Shortbread Mushrooms

Got this fantastic idea from Bake It Pretty.  As soon as I had the chance I had to make them. 
Basically you make a up simple shortbread/biscuit mix, I flavoured mine with coconut due to the fact I've had a bottle in my cupboard for ages, rolled into balls place on baking sheets then dip a beer bottle in water then cocoa and press into the balls then bake.  That's it!

World Cup / Birthday Cupcakes

Been a while since me last post, I was away sunning myself in the Caribbean.

As well as the World Cup starting on the 11 June it was also my father's birthday. 

So I celebrated by making World Cupcakes!  They're are 13 countries instead of 32, that would mean eating too many cakes especially after my holiday.  You'll notice I've included Scotland, my dad's birthday wish!

Devil's Food Cake sponge filled and topped with chocolate butter icing. 

Super Mario Cupcakes

Made these for my sister, Lorna's birthday. She turned 29 and she loves the little Italian plumber!

Chocolate sponge, filled with a rich chocolate ganache, topped with vanilla butter icing.

A big shout out to my mum who helped out with the sugarpaste characters.

Didn't want to eat them but we all managed to eat one!

Rainbow Cupakes II

Vanilla Rainbow Cupcakes for Emma's (from work) birthday.

Second time making Rainbow Cupcakes, just because they're my favourite. Also I wanted to try out my gel food colouring on sponge. Colours turned out great.

Had one for breakfast!

Here are the 80's cupcakes I made for my friend Stephanie's birthday. Vanilla sponge filled and covered with chocolate buttercream.

Pacman, 2 x ghosts, Rubiks Cube, Etcha Sketch & cassette.