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A Spring Wedding Cake

Posted in Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, Spring, Wedding Cakes, White, Yellow, tagged , on September 5, 2014| Leave a Comment »

P1060277A4 years ago two of my old house mates got engaged, they called me up to tell me the exciting news and asked if I would like to make their wedding cake. How could I refuse! I’d never made a wedding cake before so when Chloe suggested a design she liked I spent some time getting advise on how to do it, it wasn’t just a straight forward 3 tier cake. The cake mimicked the design of her beautiful dress. Click here to see this unusual cake.

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Under the Sea Cupcakes

Posted in Cupcakes, Figure Modelling, Fruit/Veg, Summer on August 28, 2014| 1 Comment »

P1170320Every year the company I work for takes part in the Enduro Challenge. This is an endurance relay event where a team of 6 athletes race from Tower to Tower – The Tower of London to The Eiffel Tower. Teams run from London to Dover, swim across the English Channel (in only a swimming costume!) and then cycle from Calais to Paris. Yes, this is an extreme triathlon! I’ve taken part a couple of times and have helped support the race the last few years too. It’s an enormous amount of fun and incredibly hard work and the athletes that take part are thoroughly deserving of plenty of homemade cakes! So it has become a tradition that I supply some home baked goodies, preferably themed for the event. So this year I have been busy baking some sea creature cupcakes.

Want to find out what’s lurking in the English Channel!?

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A Cupcake Picture

Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, Spring on August 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »

P1130184I love making cakes and biscuits to give to people as a present, so when I saw this idea on Pinterest I couldn’t resist! I thought it was perfect to use as a gift to say thank you when we stayed with some friends and their two girls for the weekend. If you want to find out how to make a picture out of cupcakes, click here…

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Sugarplum Cupcakes

Posted in autumn, Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, purple, Spices, Summer, tagged , , , , on August 14, 2014| Leave a Comment »

P1170242ABefore 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 –

sugar plum cupcakes.

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Flower and Butterfly Cupcakes

Posted in Cupcakes, purple, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, tagged , , , , on June 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »

flowers and flutterbiesI 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.

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Easter Chick Cupcakes

Posted in Cupcakes, Easter, Spring, tagged , , , , on March 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »

hatching chick cupcakesI have so many things to blog about that I struggled to decide which one to start with. After the lovely spring weather this weekend though I though it would be appropriate to blog about these little hatching chick cupcakes first. Are you ready to watch some chicks hatch into cupcakes?

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Penguin Bowling Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Figure Modelling, tagged , , , , on January 2, 2014| 3 Comments »

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Why did the penguin cover his eyes?

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Melting Snowmen Biscuits

Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Christmas, tagged , , , on December 18, 2013| 5 Comments »

20131217-214310.jpg I love baking things which look pretty. However, no matter how pretty you make something it still has to taste good – at the end of the day it’s food and you’ve made it to be eaten. It can be easy to decorate something with loads of icing to make it look amazing but all that does is make it taste sweet. If possible, I would much rather decorate a cake or biscuit with something that adds to the flavour rather than masks it with sugar. Do you want to make something that tastes as good as it looks?

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Christmas Cupcakes

Posted in Christmas, Cupcakes, tagged , , , , , on December 15, 2013| 1 Comment »

20131215-215412.jpg This weekend, I’ve definitely started to feel Christmassy. Tom was working (again!) so I spent all day yesterday baking and wrapping presents. Today I saw pretty much everyone in the family – first we had a roast at my Auntie Ann’s house with everyone from my mum’s side of the family and then we over to see my Great Auntie Joan who had just arrived from American and most of my dad’s side of the family was there. When I got back I was still feeling festive so I decided to make some Christmas cupcakes. Are you feeling festive?

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An Autumn Wedding Cake

Posted in autumn, Chocolate, Orange, Red, Sugarpaste flowers, Wedding Cakes, White, tagged , on December 9, 2013| 3 Comments »

20131209-185226.jpg Just under a year ago my sister got engaged. I was extremely excited – not just because there was going to be a wedding, but also because I was going to get to make the cake! We made a deal a while ago that rather than making our own cake, we would make each other’s. Click here to keep reading.

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