Flower Pearl cupcakes

I wanted to create a selection of tea time cupcakes in traditional buttercream that looked as attractive as they tasted. So I began by baking some chocolate cupcakes and making a batch of vanilla buttercream. I then added touches of pinks and lilacs and ended up creating different flowers using various piping nozzles. To finish, I added touches of pearlised fondant accents. They turned out pretty fab, even if I must say so myself....

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Freshly picked cupcakes

These cupcakes were made today and took me six hours to complete from start to finish. A labour of love! They are chocolate cupcakes with milk chocolate Oreo frosting and fondant toppers. 

I really enjoyed making these because in nature, nothing is perfectly symmetrical or the same, so there's a lot more room for creativity. I possibly got a little carried away with the details (is there such a thing with cake decorating I wonder?)    

Here's how they eventually turned out....

A different take on 'five a day'

An Apple a day....

Vegetable patch cupcakes

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Three tier 'Hello Kitty' Cake

This week I was told to make a three tier 'Hello Kitty' Cake for a birthday girl on her first birthday. 

I began by making my fondant 'Hello Kitty'...

I was given the colours pink, white and red, which I eventually covered each of my cakes in. 

As the bottom layer looked a bit blank I ended up cutting out strips of pink, red and black fondant to add depth and break up the scattered floral and heart pattern on the top two tiers.  

Here's how it turned out...

Three tier 'Hello Kitty' Cake in Victoria sponge and fondant.

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Jake and the Neverland Pirates cupcakes

Hand made novelty cupcakes for a birthday boy on his first birthday

White cupcakes with vanilla buttercream swirl and hand made fondant toppers

Antique Gold wedding cake

A classic Antique Gold four tier wedding cake with a spray of hand made roses and leaves...

A touch of luxury wedding lace...

a spray of hand made roses and leaves.

A selection of cupcakes

Last week I made a selection of cupcakes for a bake sale at my son's school, which went down a treat...

Dairy milk cupcakes:

Dark chocolate cupcakes with chocolate fudge and dairy milk topping

Candy floss cupcakes:

White cupcakes with candy floss flavoured buttercream

Chocolate Brownie cupcakes:

 with creamy chocolate fudge frosting: crispy on the outside, moist on the inside.