Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Relocation
My website at: www.hellotherecupcakes.co.uk will be moving house in the next 2 weeks. Still the same address to visit, but if it's down for a day or two, don't worry - I'll be back!
Sunday, 19 June 2011
'Enchanted Garden' Christening Cakes
Claire ordered 48 cakes in an 'Enchanted Garden' theme for her daughter's Christening. We played around with lots of design ideas before we settled on fairies, butterflies, dragonflies and daisies, in a white, brown, pink and mint green colour theme.
I made 24 chocolate cakes and 12 each of vanilla and strawberry cakes and then iced them with chocolate, vanilla and strawberry buttercream.
Claire also asked for "lots of (edible) glitter" - so that's what she got!
12 cakes were iced with vanilla buttercream.
12 cakes were iced with strawberry buttercream.
12 cakes were iced with chocolate buttercream.
and 12 cakes were iced with vanilla buttercream, that was coloured and piped into grass.
Enchanted garden with toadstool.
Daisies.
Butterflies.
Dragonflies.
Fairies.
I can take no credit for the design of these- I copied an online tutorial that I found here.
...I'm not sure how I would have done them, had I not found that tutorial!
A bit heavy-handed with the rouge, perhaps!
I made 24 chocolate cakes and 12 each of vanilla and strawberry cakes and then iced them with chocolate, vanilla and strawberry buttercream.
Claire also asked for "lots of (edible) glitter" - so that's what she got!
12 cakes were iced with vanilla buttercream.
12 cakes were iced with strawberry buttercream.
12 cakes were iced with chocolate buttercream.
and 12 cakes were iced with vanilla buttercream, that was coloured and piped into grass.
Enchanted garden with toadstool.
Daisies.
Butterflies.
Dragonflies.
Fairies.
I can take no credit for the design of these- I copied an online tutorial that I found here.
...I'm not sure how I would have done them, had I not found that tutorial!
A bit heavy-handed with the rouge, perhaps!
Thursday, 16 June 2011
It's my birthday (cake)!
My best birthday present was some Ninjabreadmen cookie cutters. Can't wait get baking with them!
(just a cupcake order to get out of the way first though)
And I couldn't post about the Ninjabreadmen cutters without following it with a couple of pictures of my birthday cake.
It's June, so it has to be strawberries and cream, sandwiched between some lovely light sponge cake. Yum.
Thanks to Sam, who baked the cake, while I was busily assembling 48 cakes for a Christening.
x
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Social Eatia
Simon from PushON ordered 48 social media-themed cakes for their networking event on Monday.
I made 24 chocolate and 24 vanilla cakes and then decorated them in 5 different designs, with 5 different buttercream flavours.
PushON's own logo was kind of fiddly to cut out, but nothing matched the adventures I had with the printed cupcake toppers- from having them printed as a last-minute rush job, to drying them very gently in the oven so that they would deem to be removed from their backing paper!
However, the QR code did work when scanned, so I guess all the fiddly work was worth it.
Hope everyone enjoyed their party and the cakes on Monday night.
48 cakes: 2 cake flavours, 5 icing flavours and 5 designs, ready to be boxed up and transported to the party!
PushON's logo.
...applied to chocolate or vanilla cakes, with vanilla choc-chip buttercream.
Twitter logo
...applied to chocolate or vanilla cakes, with vanilla seed buttercream.
Feed logo
...applied to chocolate or vanilla cakes, with chocolate buttercream.
Facebook logo
...applied to chocolate or vanilla cakes, with coloured vanilla buttercream.
QR code printed onto edible cupcake toppers - it works, if you feel like scanning it...
...applied to chocolate or vanilla cakes, with strawberry buttercream.
Cakes in situ. (Thanks for the photo, Simon)
I made 24 chocolate and 24 vanilla cakes and then decorated them in 5 different designs, with 5 different buttercream flavours.
PushON's own logo was kind of fiddly to cut out, but nothing matched the adventures I had with the printed cupcake toppers- from having them printed as a last-minute rush job, to drying them very gently in the oven so that they would deem to be removed from their backing paper!
However, the QR code did work when scanned, so I guess all the fiddly work was worth it.
Hope everyone enjoyed their party and the cakes on Monday night.
48 cakes: 2 cake flavours, 5 icing flavours and 5 designs, ready to be boxed up and transported to the party!
PushON's logo.
...applied to chocolate or vanilla cakes, with vanilla choc-chip buttercream.
Twitter logo
...applied to chocolate or vanilla cakes, with vanilla seed buttercream.
Feed logo
...applied to chocolate or vanilla cakes, with chocolate buttercream.
Facebook logo
...applied to chocolate or vanilla cakes, with coloured vanilla buttercream.
QR code printed onto edible cupcake toppers - it works, if you feel like scanning it...
...applied to chocolate or vanilla cakes, with strawberry buttercream.
Cakes in situ. (Thanks for the photo, Simon)
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Life in Black and White
A really interesting commission from Cath, who is studying Surface Pattern Design and wanted 12 black and white cakes topped with her own designs to complement her degree show stand.
I researched where Cath could have her toppers printed, and then made 12 dark, dark chocolate Guinness cakes and topped them with buttercream, but this time using vegetable fat instead of butter, so that the icing would be pure white.
The toppers were a new experience for me. They were fine to use if you got them right the first time, but once placed on the icing, they tore if I tried to move them. Luckily Cath had printed a few spares...
If you like Cath's work, you can see more of it here.
12 Black and White cakes with 12 toppers.
Cath's work in situ.
I researched where Cath could have her toppers printed, and then made 12 dark, dark chocolate Guinness cakes and topped them with buttercream, but this time using vegetable fat instead of butter, so that the icing would be pure white.
The toppers were a new experience for me. They were fine to use if you got them right the first time, but once placed on the icing, they tore if I tried to move them. Luckily Cath had printed a few spares...
If you like Cath's work, you can see more of it here.
12 Black and White cakes with 12 toppers.
Cath's work in situ.
Sunday, 22 May 2011
Cupcakeasaurus
48 Dinosaur cakes were ordered for Maya's 5th birthday by her gran. I made 24 chocolate and 24 vanilla cakes, and decorated them in a variety of styles.
My favourite ones are the fondant icing dinosaur bones, and the rubble/stones that were made from crushed Oreo and chocolate chip cookies - it was a super-messy job, but a really effective look, I think.
The volcanoes took a lot of debate and experimentation, but apparently they were the most popular design: I should have made more!
Chocolate and vanilla cakes with chocolate and vanilla buttercream, cookie crumbs, fondant icing decorations and shop-bought sugar flowers.
Dem bones
One diplodocus...
...and a whole herd of them.
A sort of Triceratops, complete with Oreo and chocolate chip cookie 'rubble'.
That Oreo rubble got everywhere!
Volcano!
Dino bones, chocolate chip cookie 'boulders' and a wonky palm tree.
I love the bones, they were a last minute design addition, but my favourites, I think. The extra-nice thing about them was that the more broken apart the bones are, the better they look!
Palm trees shedding leaves, before I've even left the house.
The cakes on the stand, ready to party!
I, personally, would have mixed the cakes up on the layers of the stand, and put more than 1 cake on top, but the birthday girl's big brother was art directing this!
I hope they shuffled them round a bit before serving them.
My favourite ones are the fondant icing dinosaur bones, and the rubble/stones that were made from crushed Oreo and chocolate chip cookies - it was a super-messy job, but a really effective look, I think.
The volcanoes took a lot of debate and experimentation, but apparently they were the most popular design: I should have made more!
Chocolate and vanilla cakes with chocolate and vanilla buttercream, cookie crumbs, fondant icing decorations and shop-bought sugar flowers.
Dem bones
One diplodocus...
...and a whole herd of them.
A sort of Triceratops, complete with Oreo and chocolate chip cookie 'rubble'.
That Oreo rubble got everywhere!
Volcano!
Dino bones, chocolate chip cookie 'boulders' and a wonky palm tree.
I love the bones, they were a last minute design addition, but my favourites, I think. The extra-nice thing about them was that the more broken apart the bones are, the better they look!
Palm trees shedding leaves, before I've even left the house.
The cakes on the stand, ready to party!
I, personally, would have mixed the cakes up on the layers of the stand, and put more than 1 cake on top, but the birthday girl's big brother was art directing this!
I hope they shuffled them round a bit before serving them.
Monday, 9 May 2011
Triple Ginger Cake for a Kung Fu double bill
Thought I'd better bring a contribution to Kung Fu film night, and I'd been looking for an excuse to try this recipe, so I got baking on Saturday morning.
It was quite a lot of cake to eat straight after a take away curry though, next film night I'll make some ice cream instead.
Having said that, it was really nice but VERY gingery- there are some changes I would make to it, but I'll definitely be baking this again.
Dan Lepard's ginger chocolate chip pound cake
Triple Ginger Cake:
ground ginger, crystallised ginger and Green & Blacks dark chocolate with ginger (which is -conveniently- my absolute favourite chocolate)
(thanks for the name suggestion, Paul)
A close up of the icing - it consists only of extra thick double cream and sugar!
I think it's a bit too sweet, especially when I tasted it by itself, the sugar really made my teeth go "eeeeeeeeeee".
I also tried to use the ginger chocolate for decoration, but it has chunks of ginger in, so wasn't so good for drizzling, as much as blobbing. Next time I'll use pure chocolate for decoration, and maybe I would try it with a cream cheese topping.
It was quite a lot of cake to eat straight after a take away curry though, next film night I'll make some ice cream instead.
Having said that, it was really nice but VERY gingery- there are some changes I would make to it, but I'll definitely be baking this again.
Dan Lepard's ginger chocolate chip pound cake
Triple Ginger Cake:
ground ginger, crystallised ginger and Green & Blacks dark chocolate with ginger (which is -conveniently- my absolute favourite chocolate)
(thanks for the name suggestion, Paul)
A close up of the icing - it consists only of extra thick double cream and sugar!
I think it's a bit too sweet, especially when I tasted it by itself, the sugar really made my teeth go "eeeeeeeeeee".
I also tried to use the ginger chocolate for decoration, but it has chunks of ginger in, so wasn't so good for drizzling, as much as blobbing. Next time I'll use pure chocolate for decoration, and maybe I would try it with a cream cheese topping.
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