Goodies!

Well it certainly looks like the nice weather has gone for a while. The veggies, flowers and chickens aren't complaining though!
I've had a nice quiet week, just a couple of orders in which was nice after my busy 2 or 3 weeks! I've been doing a bit of shopping to get the stock equipment levels up a bit! All items I desperately needed of course! Check out my new goodies!

Lots of cupcakes boxes, over 1000 cupcakes cases, a skull and crossbones mould for some gothy cupcakes I have coming up, numerous different flower cutters, a foam pad for sugarcraft flowers, a flower veiner, a foam drying pad for my sugarcraft flowers and 3 heart shaped cake tins! Can't wait to use them! I've still got another 2 moulds to arrive yet! there's plenty more I need but I shall behave for a little while before I buy them!
I'm desperate to start practising my sugarcraft and modelling as I'd like to be able to make all my own flowers, wedding cake toppers and figurines! I will post pictures of my practice items as I do them!
Now I shall leave you with pictures of my most recent cakes!
Enjoy!

These cakes were for a reception after a funeral so the customer and I decided to go some simple, elegant cupcakes. Due to the flavours chosen, chocolate, vanilla, lemon and carrot, I decided that using a yellow/gold theme would fit in nicely. I dusted the walnuts atop the carrot cakes with a gold lustre and I think they looked great. The client asked that a message be included with the cakes so I made a gift card to go with them. The recipients were very pleased with them and they brought a bit of happiness into a sad occasion.
Thanks
Sam x

Pink and Gold

Hi!
Today I made another 18th birthday cake for the same girl who had the topsy turvy cake a couple of weeks ago. This cake was needed for her party! This time we went with a simple 18 cake with a pink and theme. I went with quilted sides with gold balls and gold handmade roses. The number 1 is a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and the 8 cake is chocolate with cream cheese frosting. I really hope she (and her guests) enjoys this cake too!

Sam x

Happy Valentine's Day!

Hope you've had a great day no matter what you've been up to! I've been baking today as well as shopping for more cake supplies! My lovely new stand arrived this morning and my new textured rolling pin arrived yesterday as well.
Yesterday was spent greeting customers coming to pick up their Valentine's Gift Boxes. Everybody seemed very pleased with them so I'm very happy!

I also surprised a friend with these cupcakes as a bit of a pick me up.

I'm spending tomorrow decorating an 18th birthday cake and meeting a customer who's having an exciting cake next week!
Sorry it's just short and sweet but I'm off for an early night before a busy day tomorrow!
Sam x

The Giant Cupcake Experiment

Today I did my first giant cupcake! I may have to tweak my recipe slightly to get them perfect but practice makes perfect!

First off, here are the halves filled with yummy chocolate cake batter! This was the second attempt as the first time I didn't fill the moulds enough. I used the additional piece of the mould not shown here to create a cavity in the top of the base to be filled!

 

Once the cake had cooled, I covered in a layer of roll of icing before filling the cavity in the base with some of my yummy hot fudge style chocolate sauce!

Annnd here is the finished article! This was my first time piping frosting roses. They're not perfect but I'll keep practicing until I get them just right. I've only made this one as a practice hence why the board is left uncovered but my next one will be fully decorated! I have some ideas for different designs including a few for Mother's Day.

Thanks for looking!
Sam x

More Cakey Goodness

I had a birthday cake picked up today. I finished the cake itself last night and had to do the finishing touches this morning when I got up. I was really pleased with how it turned out and I hope the birthday girl will be pleased when she sees it tonight! We decided to go with a Contemporary style cake, but a more classic sort of style rather than the big stripes and bold shapes. I wish I'd counted how many silver dragees and flowers I put on the cake, there were hundreds on there! Check below for some pics of the cake!

 

I'd love to do a tiered wedding cake in the same style so you can really see the effect of the blossoms on the cake. 

Tomorrow I'm having a play with my new Giant Cupcake Mould, I'm very excited! Can't wait to see how it turns out!I'm doing a Giant Filled Chocolate Cupcake. My friend is a very loyal filled cupcake customer so I'm making the cake to take pictures to add to my website and fan page, and she's getting it at a vastly discounted price! I shall post pictures of the cake tomorrow, might even do some during shots as well!

Thanks for reading!

Sam x

Christmas is A-Coming!

Evening all!
The first 2 Christmas Cakes have been picked up, I still have some more to be decorated so it looks like I shall be doing those tomorrow! I did some Festive Cupcakes yesterday as well, Mint Chocolate, Chocolate Orange, Gingerbread & Christmas Pudding! One of my friends had ordered 3 boxes of them for her boys to take to school as a Thank You for their teachers before the Christmas Holidays! I did a couple of trays of small cupcakes for my eldest daughter's Pre-School party. Originally I made some small chocolate cupcakes but my neighbour dropped round to see if I had some cakes he could take! I then made some vanilla ones for my daughter to take instead, I wasn't sure how popular I would be for sending chocolate cake with chocolate frosting for 3 and 4 year olds to eat anyway!
It appears I now have a couple of days off before a busy week next week filling orders up to Christmas Day! I suppose it will give me a chance to catch up on my housework! I will be at home on Saturday as I am being sent a new handmixer out as mine broke this morning. I dread to think how many mixers have sent to their electrical graveyard but this one has to be the shortest surving one, it lasted only a month! At least they're replacing it! I think I may have worn it out!
I shall leave you with a few pictures of my most recent cake creations!

Sam x