Passion Fruit and Orange Cupcakes

Jan18

Passionfruit & Orange Cupcakes

2013 will be a year of trying out new flavours and new looks for my cupcakes and as it was Daniel’s birthday last week it gave me another opportunity to try out something slightly different.  I have made the Passionfruit and White Chocolate Cupcakes before and they were a hit so I made them again adding a cream cheese icing to the cupcakes and a delicious drizzle of passion fruit with a sprinkling of white chocolate bits to the top.  I was inspired by some beautifully aromatic imported oranges I bought from Woolworths to make Orange and White Chocolate Cupcakes to add to Daniel’s gift.  I added the juice and rind of the oranges to my vanilla cupcake recipe as well as a generous helping of white chocolate chips and then added some grated orange zest to the final iced cupcakes for an added orange twist.  My favourite chocolate treat, Chuckles, provided the perfect topping for these cupcakes.  Happy Birthday Daniel and thank you for all the amazing dance inspiration and creative energy you put into every dance lesson.  I hope my culinary creativity went down well!

Passionfruit & Orange Cupcakes

 

Bridal Shower Cupcakes

Jan17
Bridal Shower Cupcakes

“I do, I do, I do”

When Michelle asked me to do these cupcakes for her friend, Claudia’s, bridal shower she sent me an email with pictures for inspiration.  One of the pictures was a beautiful macaron tower with pale pink, lavender, yellow and green macarons delicately balanced to create a perfect display.  I drew my inspiration from this picture and made sugar paste roses and flowers which I delicately coloured in pale pastels.  In keeping with the Parisian theme I made matching sugar paste pearls which I dusted with coloured lustres to match the flowers.  I added the printed “I do” tags to tie in with the bridal shower theme.  Thank you Michelle for your order and for the gorgeous inspirational pictures and I wish Claudia all the best for a beautiful wedding.

Bridal Shower Cupcakes

Happy Birthday to Cupcakes2Delite’s Top Commenter!

Jan12
Birthday Cupcakes

You came out tops!

Congratulations Wendy for being my top commenter on Cupcakes2Delite!  Every time I receive a comment on my blog I get the same tingly excitement I had at Christmas as a kid wondering what was hidden in all the beautifully wrapped presents under the tree.  Thanks Wendy for taking the time to leave all your comments on my blog….you are the Bees Knees!  Another first for the year is your birthday you celebrated a few days ago and I wanted these birthday and thank you cupcakes to be a little different for you.  I made an orange cupcake with vanilla icing and finished off with an orange filled chocolate disc, the second flavour was a vanilla cupcake with a hidden nougat centre and vanilla icing and nougat to top it. The final flavour was a vanilla cupcake with a caramel syrup, vanilla icing and burnt caramel filled chocolate disc (thanks to Woolworths for their gorgeous chocolate products and nougat which inspired the flavours for these cupcakes).  I hope you have as much fun eating these cupcakes Wendy as the fun I have reading all your quirky comments!

2012 in review

Jan3

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 73,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Biker Boy Cupcakes!

Jan3
My Biker Boy Turns 19!

My Biker Boy Turns 19!

Every New Year’s Day Teigh gets double wishes, Happy New Year and Birthday Wishes.  It was no different this year as he celebrated his 19th birthday on the 1st January.  Among his many passions in life is his new bike and I was delighted when I found these cool sugar paste bikes at Jodees in December.  I made chocolate cupcakes with a swirl of vanilla cream cheese icing and then popped the bikes standing in the icing.  The beige and brown sugar beads were the last addition to resemble the stony terrain he loves to ride on.  He had a great day celebrating with family and friends and the cupcakes were the final sweet touch to his 19th birthday celebration.  Happy Birthday my wonderful Biker Boy and congratulations on all your brilliant achievements of 2012.  I am sure 2013 is going to be an awesome and exciting year for you.

Teigh's Birthday Cupcakes

Cute Christmas Mice Cupcakes!

Dec15
Jingle Bells and Pitter Patter Christmas Cupcakes!

Jingle Bells and Pitter Patter Christmas Cupcakes!

I love popping into Baking Bitz in Randburg as there are always new sugar paste decorations in stock.  I don’t often buy ready made ones as I love creating my own and choosing my own colours, but these cute little stockinged mice were too adorable to resist.  To match the Christmas theme for our year end scrapping day at the Memory Shed I baked cranberry, dark chocolate and orange cupcakes, topped them off with a creamy vanilla icing and then nestled the sugar paste mouse hiding in his stocking onto each cupcake and added a sprinkle of silver beads around each mouse.  We had a brilliant morning sharing all our Christmas faire and beautiful gifts and it was the perfect way to end another great year of scrapbooking.