Gloverly Cupcakes

Just over a month ago it was Emily’s 3rd Birthday. Being a typical 3 year old she was changing her mind every day about what kind of party and cake she wanted, slightly tricky when trying to plan things! Her favourite cuddly toy is her panda and so when I suggested that she had a panda themed party and cake, she seemed very excited and the idea stuck, phew! She takes after both her Aunties with her love of pandas. She asked for the cake to have a Mummy panda, a Daddy panda and and Emily panda on as well as some bamboo, so I did a bit of research and came up with a design. Click

I made all the decorations in advance using mostly sugar florists paste as I find this the easiest to work with and it dries really nice and hard so less risk of things crumbling or breaking. Essential when you have a toddler constantly requesting to have a look at what you’ve made!

A couple of days before the party I got to work making the cake, I’d never tried the recipe before but it’s one of Emma’s favourites and as Emily kept asking for a salted caramel cake (Daddy’s favourite flavour!) I thought I would try and caramel and chocolate ombre cake from the bbcgoodfood website. Em has added the link to it before on one of her Easter Cakes and it can be found here.

The party and the cake were both a huge success and we had one very happy panda mad 3 year old!