School Fair Cake Stall

Jackie's school fair is tomorrow and, as luck would have it, his grade is in charge of the Cake Stall.
I decided to go with simple and pretty (i.e. no fillings!!!) and did some chocolate & vanilla cupcakes with chocolate/vanilla buttercream.


A group of Mums got together this morning and organised all the cakes that had been brought in for the stall. Let me say - there was a lot of cake!!!


Best Beloved is pretty happy about that though - he was a little cross that I baked all day and that this morning there was nothing left in the house for morning tea...

Harry Mac's First Birthday

Gorgeous Hamish McMurtry turned 1 and celebrated with a ball themed party in the park. The party was awesome (the playground being particularly spectacular) and the boys had a ball (pardon the pun).

For my lovely little Godson we created two different taste sensations. The first were mudcake & mint buttercream cupcakes filled with a mint ganache.

The second batch involved my first attempt at a jelly-style filling and were vanilla cupcakes with orange filling and jaffa buttercream.

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I had also designed Harry's birthday party invitations with a vintage red, white & blue theme, which enabled me to do matching toppers too.

The Dinosaur From Hell

Strictly speaking, this blog is about my cupcakes. Cupcakes however have been far and few between of late. We've moved house making it near impossible to do anything creative - I feel like I'm only just getting back on my feet now and I'm hoping that I'll do some fabulous cakes for Sammie's 3rd party in a couple of weeks.

I have, however, not been completely cake idle. Apart from eating plenty of cake, I also made a massive effort for Jack's 6th party in February. Stan the Stego was a 3D mass of icing which took me, literally, all night to ice. It was incredibly humid and no sooner would I pipe a tiny amount and I would have to put the icing back into the fridge for 10 minutes before I could do anymore.

It was of course worth every cursed second though when I saw the look on Jackie's face when he laid eyes on the cake. I'm hoping never to have to repeat it though!