Bright colours were the order of the day for Blair’s birthday and she asked me to do Winnie the Pooh Cupcakes for her celebration. I used chocolate moulds to create these cute characters and then added their eyes, noses and details with sugar paste and gel food colouring. Dainty colourful flowers on some of the cupcakes complemented this theme and Blair was delighted to have these cupcakes to share with her guests. Thanks again Blair for another fun order!
Rex’s mom asked me to make cupcakes to celebrate his 16th birthday and she gave me as his interests: rugby, fishing, water polo and music to be included as decorations on his cupcakes. I made the rugby balls, fish and fishing rods and signs and water polo balls out of sugar paste and then decorated some cupcakes with denim shorts with his initial, 16’s and lions and crowns to complete the themed cupcakes for his special day. I hope you had as much fun Rex on your 16th birthday as I had making your cupcakes!
Ooh La La … My Little French Girl!
What a fun 2 day course we had with Vicci of Victoria Bean Bakery learning to craft her Little French Girl out of sugar paste last Thursday and Friday. Vicci just oozes sugar art talent and her passion for everything she does in life is highly contagious. Not only is she an amazing baker and sugar artist but she is a wife, mom, friend and now also a teacher of her amazing skills. We have been admiring Vicci’s characters for a while now and we were all delighted when she announced her new class. Not only did we learn so much from this amazingly talented sugar artist but we learned from each other as we chatted about our own cake and sugar art experiences, all priceless information you can’t pick up from a book! Above are a couple of pictures of Vicci demonstrating her French Girl on a ruffled cake and below you can see Vicci’s delightful character winning her way into our hearts.
We were all delighted with out little French Girls on their matching cakes!
Thank you Vicci for sharing your passion, knowledge and wonderful skills with us. Can’t wait to see what you have up your crafty sugar art sleeve for next time! I love my little French Girl and the mischievous glint in her eye!
It was fun making these Lalaloopsy Doll Cupcakes for Janine who ordered them for her niece’s birthday. These cute rag dolls were the inspiration for these cupcakes and I made the faces with pale pink sugar paste discs, black sugar paste button eyes and pink, watermelon and sunny yellow hair. On the remainder of the cupcakes I added sugar buttons in these different colours. They were a cheeky delight in their peach polka dot cupcake holders. Thanks Janine for and opportunity to play with dolls again!
Most of my friends know that I go a bit dotty over dots and I love any opportunity to add polka dots to my life. I am not sure if Debbie knew this when she asked me to do these Polka Dot Flower Cupcakes for her. I used a variety of colours and added small sugar paste circles to the colours before embossing and then cutting out the blossoms. I used contrasting sugar paste balls for the centres of the flowers and then pressed my embossing mat gently on to each centre to both flatten and emboss them. The result was these really charming and colourful cupcakes with their dotty flowers!
Last Sunday we celebrated Mothers Day here in South Africa and it was a gorgeous winter day for all of us moms to be treated. I know I was more than spoilt with exquisite pottery mugs and bowl and roses from my husband, my favourite MAC make-up from my daughter and Gordon Ramsey’s Home Cooking from my son. After a delicious lunch at Frenzi, I could honestly say I had a brilliantly relaxing day with my family so thank you guys!
As all moms love a sweet treat on their special day I advertised my Mothers Day Cupcakes for sale with the proceeds going towards the TrinityHouse School Debs and Squires Fund-Raising, 2014. I was really touched that so many friends and clients ordered for this occasion and generously supported this fund-raising at the same time. I just want to send out a huge thank you to you all for your orders, my business rocks because of all of you!
I loved how these embossed pale peach hearts complemented the embossed blue flowers and thanks to Martha Stewart’s alphabet mold & Ceire’s patient molding of all these M’s the cupcakes were a perfect gift for any mom.
As I celebrated with my children I remembered the friends and family who tragically no longer have their children to hold on this special day and all the moms whose children were just a bit too far away to hold. No matter where our children are, as a mother, we will always feel blessed to have had our children grace our lives with their uniqueness and we will hold them close to our hearts forever.
cupcakes2delite 