Posted in autumn, Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Figure Modelling, Fruit/Veg, Green, Iced Cakes, pink, purple, Spices, tagged Children n's Birthday Cake, christening cake, Magical Toadstool Cake, Toadstool Cake on November 8, 2022| 1 Comment »
On Sunday we finally got around to having Chloe’s Baptism, 2.5 years later than planned due to covid etc. But it was worth the wait, we had a wonderful weekend with family and Godparents. I wanted to make a really special cake and loved the cake I made for my niece Alice, so I decided to make something similar. Click here to see some more photos of this magical cake.
(more…)Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, pink, purple, Spring, Summer, tagged Butterfly Cake, christening cake, Spring Flower Cake on August 5, 2019| Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago it was my niece Alice’s Christening and I was very excited to be making the cake for her. I’m not managing to fit much baking or cake decorating in at the moment so it was really nice to have a small cake project to work on! Tams asked for something with butterflies, so we looked at loads of designs and decided on the additions of some painted grass and flowers in pinks and purples and a small grey bunny too. Click here to see how this pretty cake came to life.
Posted in Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, purple, Spring, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, tagged Lavender and Lemon Cupcakes, Purple flower cupcakes, purple flowers, spring cupcakes on February 20, 2019| Leave a Comment »
It definitely feels like spring has arrived this week with some gorgeous sunshine and lovely warm weather! So I thought I should upload some photos of these pretty cupcakes. I made them a couple of years ago and have made several similar versions since as the flowers are very easy to make and look really good on top of the cupcakes. Click here to see the recipe and how to make the flower.
Posted in Biscuits, Christmas, Green, pink, purple, Spices, tagged christmas baking, gingerbread house, sugarplum on December 20, 2018| Leave a Comment »
I didn’t get round to uploading any photos of last years ginger bread house but anyone that’s been to our house in the last year will have seen it! It’s been on the sideboard as a permanent feature all year! There’s no chance we’ll eat it now, but it makes a great Christmas decoration and having had baby Chloe just three weeks ago there certainly won’t be time to make one this year! Click here to see more photos of my magical house.
Posted in Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, purple, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, Wedding Cakes, tagged freesias, lilac wedding cake, roses, summer wedding, wedding cake on September 7, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Just before Christmas last year, a family friend, Emma, asked if I would be able to make her wedding cake. Despite not living near where the wedding was going to be I said yes since it was near my parents so I thought it would be a good chance to go back to my parents for a few days. However, that didn’t happen – instead mum, dad and Becky came up to stay with me for a few days and then took the cake back. Becky even assembled the cake for me! Click here to keep reading.
Posted in purple, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, Wedding Cakes, tagged purple flowers, simple wedding cake, single tier cake, wedding cake on March 24, 2015| Leave a Comment »
This wedding cake was a last minute favour for somebody at work. Luckily though, I didn’t have to make the cake, just ice and decorate an 11″ square fruit. It was a single tier cake and I loved the simplicity of the design they chose – a white cake with purple and lilac flowers around the base.
Posted in purple, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, Wedding Cakes, tagged lisianthus, purple, roses, simple wedding cake, wedding cake on October 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago Aimée, one of my friends from work got married. She asked me/I offered to make her wedding cake. As with most of the other wedding cakes I’ve made, she said she wanted something “simple”. Based on past experience “simple” often doesn’t end up being simple! So I searched on Pinterest for “simple purple wedding cake” and showed a couple to her – surprisingly she picked the simplest one. Click here to keep reading.
Posted in Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, gluten-free, pink, purple, Summer, tagged cupcakes, hen party, lavender, lemon, summer, wedding on September 18, 2014| 1 Comment »
This week is national cupcake week, possibly the best week of the year! I have been baking lots of cupcakes recently in particular for the hen parties I have been to this month. The 1st of 3 hen parties was for my lovely friend Anna who I met through our running club, she is getting married at the end of the month (look out for the blog about her wedding cake next month). I decided to do something different for her cupcakes rather than making the usual silly rude ones.
Posted in autumn, Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, purple, Spices, Summer, tagged cupcakes, fruit pastilles, Gloverly Cupcakes, nutcracker, sugarplum on August 14, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Before I started Gloverly Cupcakes, Becky and I discussed starting a blog with “Sugarplum” in the name. Why? Because it was my nickname when I was younger and it fitted in with the baking theme. I didn’t want to steal the name for a blog on my own, so I came up with Gloverly Cupcakes. Now Becky has joined me we want to keep the Gloverly Cupcakes name, but we also want to have a link to sugarplums. The first step was creating a new logo. The next step was to create a signature bake –
Posted in Cupcakes, purple, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, tagged butterflies, cupcakes, flowers, pruple, silver on June 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I like all kinds of baking and cake decorating and I love being asked to make anything, but after 3 minions, 2 pandas, and a sooty cake, it made a nice change to be asked to make some pretty cupcakes. I also like being given the opportunity to come up with the decorations myself – the only instructions I was given for these was that they had to be purple and silver with flowers and butterflies. Perfect! Click here to keep reading.
Gloverly Cupcakes 