Posted in Christmas, Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, Nuts, Spices, tagged Christmas, cupcakes, fruit cake, snowman on December 4, 2014| 1 Comment »
I love a bit of Christmas baking, last year I worked my way through the cupcake recipes from the Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days book. I love the fruit cake cupcakes, the recipe is light and delicious and still has that lovely boozy fruit cake flavour. I thought these snowmen were pretty cool and as my hubby is a massive marshmallow fan I knew these would be a winner! Click here to find out how to build a snowman cupcake.
Posted in Cupcakes, tagged cupcakes, Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, minions on November 17, 2014| Leave a Comment »
For the last few years Becky has done lots of baking for her running club and always tries to make the baking in the running club colours – red and yellow. So when Tom joined a hockey club up here I decided I would start doing some team-colour themed baking for him. His hockey team, JPC HC, plays in blue and yellow and the first thing that came into my mind was minions – I’ve clearly made too many minion cakes! Is it possible to make too many minions?
Posted in Cupcakes, Winter, tagged 30th birthday, apres ski, cupcakes, skiing on October 7, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Last weekend I was in London for one of my best friend Sian’s 30th birthday celebrations. You can’t have a birthday celebration without cake, and given I was staying with Becky on the Friday night I offered to make her something. She didn’t have any specific requests so I decided to theme it with the place we were going for the evening which was an “apres ski”-style bar. Click here to keep reading.
Posted in Cupcakes, pink, tagged baby girl, cupcakes, gift, lemon, raspberry on October 1, 2014| Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago my close friends James and Jen had a beautiful baby girl. I was keen to make some cupcakes as a gift, but having made the baby face ones several times I was looking to try out something different. Click here to find out what I made…
Posted in autumn, Cupcakes, Nuts, Sugarpaste flowers, tagged autumn leaves, cupcakes, maple and pecan on September 22, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Last week the weather suddenly changed and it started to feel like autumn. It was also National Cupcake Week. So you can probably guess what I did at the weekend…. I made some autumn-themed cupcakes!
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 Cupcakes, tagged cupcakes, hen do, hens, L plate on September 1, 2014| Leave a Comment »
One of my friend’s, Kiri, asked me if I could do some baking for a hen do she was organising last weekend. I don’t like to declining baking opportunities so I said yes. However, given all the running around I’ve been doing recently I didn’t have much time. So what was going to be biscuits and girly cupcakes ended up being these. Keep reading…
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, Nuts, tagged cupcakes, flowers, Nutella, ruffles, vintage on August 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The advantage of doing a blog with somebody else is that you can remind/encourage each other to keep it up. Over the last 6 months my blogging has been very irregular (and infrequent at times) but Becky and I have said that we’re going to remind each other to write a post each week. So here’s my post for the week – look out for Becky’s later this week.
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 