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Spring has Sprung Cupcakes………

Sep24
Spring Flower Cupcakes

Spring Flower Cupcakes

With the deep winter skies slowly turning to a bright blue, the birds practising their summer chorus and the temperature starting to warm up in Johannesburg, we can officially say that spring has arrived.  I am delighted to pack away my winter woollies and bring out my bright colourful summer clothes as spring announces to us that finally the warmer weather is here.  With the cheerful pastel hues of spring, comes a great excuse to celebrate, and here are some of my Spring Flower Cupcakes to celebrate a special birthday earlier this month.

Spring Flower Cupcakes with Birdcage

Spring Flower Cupcakes with Birdcage

 

Ladybird Cupcakes for Paige

Sep16
Ladybird Cupcakes

Ladybird Cupcakes

I couldn’t resist these tiny sugar paste ladybirds from Jodees for cupcakes I made for Paige’s birthday celebration with her friends.  Small elegant ladybirds were perfect for a petite young lady.  Hope you had fun Paige!

Ladybird Cupcakes

Ladybird Cupcakes

I photographed these cupcakes on my new tea-towel from Gina, thanks Gina for the cool birthday gifts!

Walk on the Wild Side Cupcakes!

Aug29

Walk on the Wild Side Cupcakes

These 3 delightful characters and all their ‘Wild’ mates were hand crafted by Paige for this Walk on the Wild Side cupcake order.  Jenny had tasted the cupcakes I made for Tracy’s book club evening and she had seen Paige’s Naughty Monkeys on my blog and she wanted to have the same characters on the cupcakes for her daughter’s 21st birthday party.  I have to admit that I had a little giggle at her email request of monkeys, lions and zebras with a horse and a llama thrown in too as I thought where will I source these characters (especially a llama)?  Luckily Paige agreed to help me with the animals and these miniature sugar art marvels look so proud of themselves sitting on their cupcakes.

Walk on the Wild Side Cupcakes

I sourced the leopards, crocodiles and horses from Kadies in Fourways and I made a couple of giraffe heads popping out from their green embossed sugar paste leaves to complete the order and then photographed them on the beautiful wooden tray that Tanya gave me for my birthday.  Thanks again Paige for your care and attention to character in these gorgeous animals and thank you Jenny for such a fun and challenging order for your daughter’s special day.  I am so delighted that everyone enjoyed the cupcakes and had as much fun admiring these little creatures as I did.  Finally love the llama Paige!

Walk on the Wild Side Cupcakes

 

Shaunagh’s Birthday Cupcakes

Aug29

Orange & Yellow Flower Cupcakes

As I mentioned in my last post, Shaunagh and I shared a birthday 2 weeks ago, and our celebration at scrapbooking was a brilliant one with cake, presents, loads of laughter and of course a few cupcakes. Having recently fallen in love with a few new blogs including Sam Linsell’s blog http://drizzleanddip.com/ with her exciting recipes and mouthwateringly beautiful photography I decided to try out a new recipe for Shaunagh’s birthday cupcakes from Sam’s blog.  Her Best Ever Red Velvet Cupcakes looked really tempting  and true to her word these cupcakes not only looked red and chocolatey but also tasted delicious.  I added some pretty orange and yellow flowers with bright centres to some of the cupcakes and then combined the yellow and orange sugar paste to make some roses for the others. The result was cupcakes that are as bright and fun as Shaunagh herself is with a beautiful feminine finish.

Orange & Yellow Flower Cupcakes

Inspired by the beautiful flowers Shaunagh researches on the internet and then makes for gifts and for her beautiful layouts, these were my way of capturing her fun spirit.  Thanks again for sharing a wonderful birthday celebration and especially thanks for all the laughs every week!

My Giant Birthday Cupcake!

Aug27

Giant Birthday Cupcake

As we get older birthdays seem to approach more quickly each year and I know many people say that they would rather not make a fuss over their birthday and would rather try and keep a low  profile each year on the day that reminds them they have just turned another year older.  If you look at it logically you are really only a day older than the day before your birthday so it is not all that bad!  True to form another 2 birthdays, mine and Shaunagh’s held no hint of being low key as we arrived to scrapbook at The Memory Shed and each of our places held an assortment of beautifully wrapped presents and delicious food.  Lisa, our ever creative teacher, soon coaxed us into the delightful task of unwrapping our treasures so that we had space to actually scrapbook and both Shaunagh and I were incredibly spoiled by an amazing group of women whom we work and laugh with each week.  Thanks girls to you all for such beautiful and thoughtful gifts!  I had left home with many phone and facebook wishes from friends who said that hopefully someone else would bake for me on my special day and I am delighted to show you the  beautiful giant cupcake that Lisa Myburgh made for me and had ready with all my gifts as I arrived into her shop.