Shrimp & banana cupcakes

I made these so I could try out new icing techniques, the sponge yet again is a simple vanilla sponge with cut up bits of shrimp and banana sweets, the sweets melt whilst cooking this gives the sponge a better flavour!

The icing is divided into two and coloured, in a piping bag I put one table spoon of yellow followed by the pink I repeated this until the bag was full. I then topped each cupcake with the icing ad finished with a shrimp and banana

Pretty Pansy cupcakes

These Cupcakes are just a simple vanilla sponge, topped with grass green buttercream and finished with picket fence wraps and pansy toppers!

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Jubilee

Ideal for street parties

The Creative Collective Group

Check out this small interview I did for the Creative collect group while your there take a look round the blog feature interviews with local designers, artists, chefs amongst many others, reviews on local businesses and events and general posts about hobbies, crafts and anything inspiring.

http://www.creativecollectivegroup.com/2012/04/lady-mucks.html

Earl Grey Cupcakes

I was trying to come up with british flavours for the Jubilee , us brits certainly like our tea so I thought why not early grey!

I used the simple Vanilla cupcake recipe from The Hummingbird bakery, that recipe includes milk so I boiled the milk with 3 Earl grey tea bags and added it just like I normally would!, the icing also has earl grey in it this time I used one tea bag with a small amount of boiling water the recipe for the icing is also from The Hummingbird instead of milk I used the Earl grey!

Peanut butter Dino time!

Last night I was craving something sweet the only thing I could find was peanut butter so me being me I put two and two together and baked peanut butter cupcakes.


The recipe is
160g Butter
170g Caster sugar
170g Self raising flour
3 Eggs
3 tbs Coco powder
2 tbs of Peanut butter
a few drops of Vanilla essence

Cream together the sugar and the butter until pale, add the eggs one at a time then sieve the coco powder and the flour together , add to the egg mix when all ingredients have been mixed together add the peanut butter and vanilla essence.

Put 12 cases into a deep bottomed baking tray, fill each case to 3 quarters full, bake for about 2O mins

For the topping,
80g Butter
250g Icing sugar
2 tbs Peanut butter
A few drops of milk

Beat together the icing and the butter to form the texture of breadcrumbs add the milk followed by the peanut butter.

Pipe, decorate finished!

Enjoy!

Colourful Cupcakes

Colourful cupcakes were baked for children I wanted to make them as eye catching as possible, a simple chocolate sponge topped with bright orange butter cream.

Cupcakes make great gifts

These cakes were baked for my friends birthday, The sponge was chocolate with white chocolate chunks, the topping was marshmallow a rich buttercream icing with melted marshmallows.