A couple of weeks ago one of the girls I work, Kiri, with left to go on secondment for 6 months. I’m always looking for excuses to make cakes so I thought this was the perfect opportunity to make some “leaving” cupcakes.
The original plan was to make some cocktail themed cupcakes but I finished work late and couldn’t be bothered to go to the supermarket to buy anything. I checked what ingredients I had and all I could make with what I had was vanilla… so that’s what I went with. Since I wasn’t making Kiri’s favourite flavour, I decided to decorate them with the colours I associate with her – black, white and red.
I made the red flowers using a small flower cutter and left them to dry on a foam petal former while I iced the cupcakes. I stuck a few black sprinkles into the centre of each flower using a bit of black royal icing. To make the effect with the icing I painted two black stripes down opposite sides of the inside of the piping bag. I then filled the piping bag with icing and piped swirls on top of each cupcake.
Gloverly Cupcakes 
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