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Red Velvet Cupcakes

Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, Red, tagged , , on January 21, 2014| 2 Comments »

20131210-074258.jpg One of the girls in the office, Simran, loves the Hummingbird Bakery and always goes when she’s in London. Her favourite flavour cupcake/the one she always has is this one: red velvet with a cream cheese frosting. So I promised that I would, at some point, make some red velvet cupcakes to bring into the office. I eventually got round to making them last summer. And it’s taken me just as long to get round to blogging about them. If you can’t wait any longer for a red velvet cupcake click here.

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Party Popper Minion Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Iced Cakes, tagged , , on January 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »

20140108-200258.jpg Last weekend I got to make another minion cake. I loved the first one I made for Tom’s birthday and really wanted to make another one, so I was pretty excited when he asked if I could make one for somebody he works with. Do you want to meet minion number 2?

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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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Minion Cake!

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Iced Cakes, tagged , , , , on November 19, 2013| 6 Comments »

20131119-202112.jpg In between making wedding cakes it was Tom’s birthday. He’s been away for the last few years on his birthday so I haven’t been able to make him a birthday cake. Therefore, this year, I wanted to make him a cake which would make up for the last few years. Not much thinking was required – he came back from a recent trip to Universal Studios with a minion water bottle, a minion mug and a set of minion pyjamas for me… so a minion cake it was! Click here if you want to bake a minion too!

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White Rose Wedding Cake

Posted in Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, Wedding Cakes, White, tagged , , on November 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »

20131118-202034.jpg At the end of the summer last year, our friends Martin and Jen got engaged. A couple of weeks later I asked if they’d like me to make the wedding cake. Jen said yes and then asked if I would like to be a bridesmaid – I said yes! So three weeks ago I made my first wedding cake. Click here to keep reading.

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Hen Do Baking!

Posted in cake pops, Cupcakes, Macarons, tagged , , on November 5, 2013| 2 Comments »

20131105-174947.jpg Last weekend it was my sister’s hen do. With the help of her other bridesmaid (and future sister-in-law), I organised a weekend away in a cottage. Apart from the date, we wanted it all to be a complete surprise for her. She’d come up with a long list of ideas but I pointed out to her that we were organising it and not her! However, I wanted her to enjoy the weekend so we did listen to some of her suggestions, one of which was having a theme for the Saturday, which was girly and everyone could get dressed up for. She suggested 1920s but since she’s been to a few 1920s parties before I wanted to do something different. So we decided to do a 1950s American Diner theme – keep reading to find out more!

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Sherlock Holmes Cupcakes

Posted in Black, Cupcakes, White, tagged , on October 21, 2013| 1 Comment »

20131018-194231.jpg On Sunday it was the Bupa Great Birmingham Run. One of the guys I work with, Adam, was running so I decided to make some cupcakes to raise some money for the charity he was running for – Birmingham Children’s Hospital. I was going to make some running themed cupcakes but his nickname in the office is “Sherlock” (because he looks a bit like Benedict Cumberbatch), so I decided to make some Sherlock Holmes cupcakes. Click here to keep reading.

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