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Happy Birthday Celeste!

Mar26

Cream & Brown Flowers Cupcakes

Celeste ordered these cupcakes to celebrate her birthday.  I loved that she specifically chose adult cupcakes to share with her colleagues and smurf and smurfette cupcakes for the children in her class.  She is obviously a teacher with great planning skills and love for her class with the attention to detail and thought she put into her cupcake order.  Celeste chose flowers and roses in her favourite colours and I made a variety for her and added them to chocolate cupcakes deliciously iced with  a creamy chocolate icing.

Cream & Brown Flowers Cupcakes

Cream & Brown Flowers Cupcakes

The smurfs and smurfette cupcakes for the children in Celeste’s class were cute and all sat very well behaved on their individual cupcakes.  I am sure the children were delighted with them and their funny expressions.  Thanks again Celeste for such an interesting and thoughtful order for your birthday and I hope these cupcakes brought a touch of  magic to your special day.

Smurf & Smurfette Cupcakes

Cruising with these Cupcakes!

Mar25
Ship & Yacht Cupcakes

Sail Away!

Ship & Yacht Cupcakes

Sail Away!

Last year this time Daniel requested a rugby cake for his birthday so it was quite a change when he went from a rugby pitch to water for this year’s birthday theme.  He was keen for me to do cupcakes with anything to do with boats.  I had to get my boys cupcakes thinking hat on and my wellingtons and move away from all things pretty and girly for this order.  I used these ready made yachts and ships that I found at Jodees as I liked the small detail on them and they inspired me to ice the cupcakes with blue waves and pop them in the icing as if they were bobbing along on their journey.  I used pale blue, bright blue, white and shiney turquoise pearls as water droplets on the icing waves to finish off the cupcakes.  Hope you had fun Daniel sharing these with your friends, can’t wait till next year’s theme!

Ship & Yacht Cupcakes

Ships Ahoy!

Ship & Yacht Cupcakes

Into The Blue!

” The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators” – Edward Gibbon

For Irish Cupcake Lovers Everywhere!

Mar17

St Patrick's Day Cupcakes

Instead of kissing the Blarney Stone today why not kiss an Irish cupcake – way more delicious – in my books!  To all the Irish cupcake lovers out there, actually to all Irish lovers out there, wishing you a crazy and wacky St Patrick’s Day and whether you are singing, dancing or eating with friends or hopefully doing all 3 then may you do it with the true spirit and magic of the Irish!

Ooh La La Cupcakes!

Mar17

Ooh la la Cupcakes

It was brilliant when Jeanine sent me a message after she had collected her previous order to tell me that she could not stop looking at the cupcakes I had made for her friends 50th birthday, see post Staying with lime green for a bit.  It was such a wonderful compliment and I was so pleased when she asked me to do these Ooh La La Cupcakes for her own birthday a couple of weeks later. Jeanine sourced this Ooh la la pack of cupcake liners and poodle cupcake toppers and they were the inspiration for her cupcakes as she loves everything about poodles, France and the colour pink.  I made pink sugarpaste roses, traditional and rolled ones and then iced the raspberry and white chocolate cupcakes in a creamy vanilla icing.  The pink pearls sit pertly on these puffy iced cupcakes along with the pink roses.  For the other half of the cupcakes I coloured the icing with a dash of pink colouring and added black pearl beads in the iced grooves.  I used the poodle cupcake toppers for these cupcakes and then placed all the cupcakes into the fancy French cupcake liners.  A tip here – rather bake your cupcakes in a plain coloured cupcake liner and then pop them once they are cooled into a beautiful printed liner as the cupcake liner will become slightly opaque on baking and the effect of the printed liner will be lost if you bake the cupcake directly in it.  The contrasting liner will only add zhoosh to the colour palette of your decor.

Ooh la la Cupcakes

Ooh la la Cupcakes

Thanks Jeanine for another interesting and really fun order and I hope you and your guests had an Ooh La La birthday celebration!

These cupcake liners and toppers can be sourced from In Good Company http://www.ingoodcompany.co.za/

Happy Birthday Martin!

Mar12

Rugby Cupcakes

These were cupcakes I made for Martin’s 15th birthday. He loves to play rugby and supports the Gauteng Lions so I thought he would enjoy these rugby ball cupcakes.  I hope you had a great weekend celebration for your birthday Martin and hope you enjoyed both the vanilla and the nutella cupcakes.

Make-Up Cupcakes for Megan

Mar9

Make-Up Cupcakes

Make-Up Cupcakes

Thank you Debbie for your order of these delightful cupcakes for your daughter Megan. Megan is celebrating her 14th birthday and having a pyjama party for her friends.  I made similar cupcakes last year for a pamper party so I was really excited when Megan chose a pink, lime green and lavender colour scheme for her cupcakes giving me a chance to do these cupcake toppers in different colours.  I made pink sugarpaste lipsticks in lavender tubes and decorated them with a cute lime green flower.  The eyeshadow palettes are also sugarpaste and were really easy to make using 2 different sized circular cutters.  I decorated the lids with sugarpaste blossoms and brushed them with a satin finish.  Every girl loves nail polish so I made green and pink nail polish bottles with lavender lids and miniature blossoms.  Loads of green, pink and lavender sugar pearls complete these cupcakes and if you listen carefully you can almost hear the giggles of the girls who will be having fun celebrating with Megan tonight.