Trip to England (and cupcakes of course!)

I have just returned from an overseas trip to England. In between visiting family and sightseeing, I managed to fit in some quality cupcake time! First was a special one, I treated myself to a cupcake from Rick Stein's Patisserie in his home town of Padstow. A lovely lemony cake topped with cream cheese and raspberry icing! Just divine!

Next was probably the most satisfying cupcake experience of my life! A white chocolate and raspberry cupcake from Marks & Spencers! It was soooo good! Yummy soft vanilla cake scattered with tiny white choc chips, an oozing blob of raspberry jam in the middle, all topped with a divine raspberry buttercream icing. It was so balanced, so perfect! I am looking forward to making some (well.... to the best of my ability! very soon - stay tuned!)

Butterfly Cakes

This was an order I did recently for a friends niece's 2nd birthday. I cut out the butterfly's with a cookie cutter about a week early and left them to dry in between folded cardboard so that their wings folded upward. Finished off with a sprinkling of edible glitter, perfect for little girls!

Marble Cakes... Yum!

My first attempt at making marble cakes. Strawberry, Vanilla and Chocolate cake mixed together to make yummy little marble cakes iced with chocolate icing.... yum!

Sprinkles and Freckles for Karen!

These cakes were inspired by Freckles! I baked chocolate cakes with chocolate icing and then covered them in freckles and matching sprinkles! Yum! Happy Birthday Karen x

Stacey's Cakes!

Here are the cupcakes I baked for Staceys birthday. Just a cute simple design with yellow icing and pink detail in the hearts and sprinkles.

Clinker Cakes for Tahlia!

Next up is Tahlia's Birthday! She is having a 90's themed birthday so I decided to get out some fluro colours and make chocolate clinker cakes. Chocolate cake and icing with clinkers and matching sprinkles!

5 times the fun starting with Brihony!

Five of my gorgeous friends have birthdays in February/March so I have decided to bake them a different batch of cupcakes each to help celebrate their special occasions. Below are Brihony's cakes. She wanted them to incorporate the gay pride colours and also hearts for Valentines Day.... they turned out a little more Care Bears rather than gay pride but nether the less, were extremely popular and delicious!