For all those who like cupcakes

Lol dee, I'll give you the tip.. It's a heck of a lot easier watching the YouTube vid just to see how they work!! Took me ages... I'm praying DS doesn't ask for them for his birthday now :hyst:

Haha thanks buzz & stormy!

It looks great Donuts. I checked out that youtube vid when it was posted and as with youtube one vid leads to the next. I ended up watching another one where the cake mix went straight into the cones and then I ended up looking at 'diaper' cakes for baby showers, then baby sock cupcakes! It just went on and on and on!



We will hold you to that Stormy!

Everyones cakes are amazing.

So now I might put my bragging pics up ..

Well just this one.. This is more about the baby than the 'covered in bits' sponge cake. This was the only appropriate photo I could find. She was nudey for this cake smash.

SO cute cooped!

We recently went to a 'pirate' themed party, so the invite said. We got excited and dressed DS up and wrapped the present in pirate paper.
When we got to the party the only thing pirate themed was the paper plates. No one else dressed up and there was no pirate anything. Dissapointing!

Job done...

Here are the Royal Wedding inspired cup cakes I iced for the Royal Wedding TV watching and Dinner Party:



...and the cat cake I made last year, in various stages of 'making':











I have made some piped chocolate hearts to go on some cupcakes for a Family Mother's Day and Birthday get together this evening, so I'll post those up if they turn out OK!

Stormy - I bow down to you!! You are a cake LEGEND!!

That would be disappointing! I went pretty full on with it. I had so much fun planning it, I'm a teacher so it was a bit like planning a unit of work but soooo much more fun. My favourite game was the treasure hunt. They had to find things like a jolly roger flag, eye patches, parrot feathers etc. Prior to the game we strategically placed them around the yard. The kids and grown ups had a ball. I had pirate themed paper plates and cups and lolly bags too. Soooo much fun!!

You sure are!! You must be so patient!!
Thanks for posting.

beautiful stormy!!! I especially love the sapphire cupcake with the "diamond" cachous around it!! Inspired!!!

This is so gorgeous! Love it! Did it taste as good as it looks like it would taste!!!

Stormy - your little cats are adorable! If my cats ate cake, I'd pay you to make me one of those for their birthdays

Yeah it tasted ok! I'm a bit sick of the taste of golden buttercake though. might lash out and do a chocolate one next time LOL.

Thought you might be sick of chocolate cake after last night!

nah not yet heee

+1

Nah, not really, I just enjoy being creative. It's actually not hard to mold a bit of sugar paste/fondant, just a little time consuming!



Yes, patient when I can spare the time. The cat one was a little rushed, so it didn't turn out exactly how I had imagined....and the legs and tails fell off when I removed them from the cake for cutting! Lol...



Thanks Donuts! That was the easiest of the lot!



LOL!!!



Thanks Cooped!


I decorated some cupcakes for Mother's Day yesterday. First time I had piped melted chocolate, and made the hearts free hand. Next time I'll put a sheet of printed hearts underneath the baking paper and pipe over the top by following the lines...these ones are all different shapes and sizes. Pretty easy, though...just time consuming again.

I got to make one!! This was the easiest 'cake' I have ever made. You can't eat it but I didn't know where else to post it. It has three layers, the bottom layer has fashwashers in it, the middle layer has singlets and the top layer has a muslin wrap. I hope they were right when they were told its a boy!

^^ That's fantastic, Fairy Blue! I have seen them in shops before and always thought they looked great...only wish I had received one when my 2 were born...oh well!!

It's cake time in our house again, and I have been busy. About a month ago my Mum turned 70. I decided (at the last minute...as you do) to make a cake. This creation took about 4 hours to 'construct', including the engineering of the pier. It's the beach house. OK, so it's not quite in proportion...but you get the idea!!







Last week was also my Daughter's 10th Birthday. We had a bit of a family 'do' (it always turns into the 'do' with 25 people in the house!), and I decided to make her a cupcake tower with a cutting cake ontop....kinda what is often done at Weddings.

It was probably the quickest 'cake' I've decorated, as I had piped all the chocolate hearts a few days prior, so the piping of the cupcakes and shoving the hearts on actually didn't take long at all....and I made it up as I went along.







...and yes, that's my apothecary jars filled with pink, white and green lollies!

Gorgeous as usual!