Goodies

My husband recently travelled to the UK for work. So I did what any self-respecting person would do. I jumped on amazon.co.uk and ordered books: Planet Cake, Seriously Naughty Cakes and Marzipan Magic.

I wrote out a list: cachous, sprinkles, all things cake!


(Now...ignore the steradent and the qantas pj's!) Everything else was amazingly exciting....alphabet and number cutters, cachous....in silver, pink, blue, green; silver hearts, pastel hearts and patty tins- in gold and silver! Also a copy of Cake magazine!

Wow! Plus there was an "unauthorised" purchase...the Hummingbird bakery book!

The cupcaketress warms up!

Cake decorating has always been a dream for me. I love cake. Well who doesn't? More importantly I love decorating, embellishing and make things look to good to eat.

Why have I taken up cake blogging? Well....

It all began a couple of months back. With the cupcake bake-off at work. One of my colleagues was leaving to go overseas and I decided to bake some cupcakes. I did them the night before, banana cupcakes with yellow sprinkles, vanilla raspberry cupcakes with pink frosting and marshmallows and chocolate cupcakes with sprinkles. One of my other colleagues made perfectly iced vanilla cupcakes. PERFECTLY ICED.

So I enrolled in a cake decorating course. My first cupcakes are documented here:






They were vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting and a layer of fondant. Not so bad for attempt 1.

But there is something lacking in vanilla cupcakes. I like flavour. In fact I love flavour.

So next came the double-choc raspberry cupcakes:






The ones with the brown tops are iced with chocolate fondant as well as the decorations.

This week however, I was inspired by autumn leaves and have created these beauties.





These were a vanilla and chocolate marble base covered with fondant.