This year is a big birthday celebration for Tracy from our Wednesday scrapbooking group and she has had fun celebrating with her family and friends. The week before the big day was her bookclub week and Shaunagh asked me to do cupcakes for the bookclub evening to celebrate Tracy’s 50th. I made pistachio and honey cupcakes in lime green and purple cupcake holders and then used the same colour scheme for the decorations. I combined bought flowers from Baking Bitz in Randburg with my own lime green roses on these cupcakes and added the pearls to complete them. Glad you all enjoyed the cupcakes girls and look out for Tracy’s big 50th birthday pictures from our Wednesday morning scrapbooking gang!
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Travelling Cupcakes
Wendy asked me to do these cupcakes for her friend’s 50th birthday. She wanted me to include Tracy’s name and the caption ‘on the ‘move’ as well as some 50’s. Her friend Tracy has a passion for travelling and she was about to embark on another adventure after celebrating her 50th birthday. I made some cute sugar paste suitcases by joining two oval pieces of sugar paste together and adding straps and handles to each suitcase. I added an orange letter to each green suitcase and a flower to the 2 yellow suitcases leaving the yellow ones slightly open while they dried. I added a 50 to the cupcakes with the yellow suitcase in the matching lime green and a funky orange blossom with green centre to tie in with the green, yellow and orange colour scheme. Of course no suitcase is complete without a tag on it so the tags were a perfect way to include the ‘on the move’ caption. I made the 3 orange tags and added a yellow sugar paste ribbon and tiny green blossom to each one. The perfect way to photograph these cupcakes was on an old map I had and a few odd coins from my own travels.
Staying with Lime Green for a Bit!
Jeanine is a new cupcake client I met while scrapbooking at the Memory Shed http://www.memoryshed.blogspot.com/ towards the end of last year. Jeanine had seen cupcakes I had brought in for another order and I was so pleased when she called me and ordered these cupcakes for a friend of hers who was celebrating her 50th birthday this past weekend. The pink butterflies, lime green and pink flowers and pink roses were a perfect choice as the variety made for a perfectly pretty display. They are displayed here on another stand that Russell Gibson made for me. A must have cupcake stand in any bakers collection: http://www.cmwi.co.za/
I loved that Jeanine went for a different flavoured cupcake and these Pistachio and Rosewater Cupcakes are delicious and I am sure the guests were surprised by these fragrantly flavoured cupcakes. Thanks Jeanine for your thank you message saying you couldn’t stop looking at the cupcakes that was an awesome compliment.





