Valentine Cupcakes

After dropping the fairytale cookies off at school yesterday, Will's teacher asked if I could do her some Valentine style cupcakes for a dinner party she is going to, obviously I said yes and I came up with this design. She was very pleased when she came to collect them........thank goodness!!!

Vanilla cupcakes with Rose water buttercream covered with a circle of embossed fondant and pearl lustre, topped with a single, handmade, fondant heart in red & gold.

Fairy tale Cookies

These Fairytale theme cupcakes were made for my son and his classmate

who were having a fairytale fancy dress day at school.

Simple shortbread cookies dressed in fondant

and finished off with either

a dusting of lustre or a sparkling sugar........

or both!

Double Blossom

Large sized cupcake

with a good helping of creamy buttercream.

This is then covered with a heavy embossed circle of fondant

and a shimmer of lustre dust.

The decoration is a double coloured blossom

and a large fondant pearl.

Little Gem

I love this Blingy little cupcake.

A regular size cupcake with a good dollop of buttercream

and a circle of claret coloured fondant

scored and partly filled with tiny silver dragees

and dusted with mother of pearl lustre,

giving it an almost purple effect!

A single blossom for the decoration with an overload of dragees for the centre!

Claret & Gold Blossom

• Large size cupcake with buttercream and a leaf scored into a circle of fondant and dusted with gold lustre and topped with a Claret coloured blossom, a dusting of gold and a single gold dragee.

YoVille House

This was made for a friend who is a big Yoville fan (Sim game on facebook)

and loves her little house on there! so I thought I would make her a cake of her house,

it's not exact but I think it's quite quaint!....Hope she likes it!

The house is made up of four layers of vanilla sponge with vanilla buttercream

and covered with fondant.

It measures; 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches

Be My Valentine

Large sized cupcake

covered with a red fondant circle dusted with lustre,

decorated with a single large heart dusted with Red & Purple lustre dusts.

Copper/Bronze Sunflower

Muffin sized cupcake

with buttercream and a circle of fondant

with a heavy dusting of bronze and copper lustre.

The topper is a fondant sunflower with copper highlights.

Whimsical Lilac Cupcake

Whimsical Lilac Cupcake #2

Same as the last but this time not quite so 3D looking,

as the leaves here are lying flatter against the cupcake

and also I have used a silver cake case .........

and I think it works better this colour!

Fresh as a Daisy

This regular sized cupcake has been covered

with lashings of Rose Water Buttercream

and decorated with

fresh looking fondant daisies with non pariels for their centres.

A "Thank You" gift

These were made as a thank you to a friend who has helped me out

while I had to visit the hospital.

Vanilla sponge cupcakes with swirls of rosewater buttercream

and topped with hearts & flower chocolates

with decorative chocolate transfers.

Vanilla sponge cupcake with Chocolate Ganache swirls

(my first attempt at making ganache!)

and topped with a single Pink Blossom made of fondant.

Faerie Flowers Cupcake

Any little Tinkerbell fan would love this cupcake topped with sweet flowers

with faerie dust sprinkled all over. Unfortunately I didn't have any edable glitter,

only the Magic Sparkles Flakes,

so I ground them down a little and....

daa-daaaa!!!!!......

faerie dust!!!

Black in Bloom

This is very simular to my "Cupcake in Bloom" design,

which I loved!

I went a little mad with the embossing, but hey!

Bazaar!

Love....The Sweetest Kind!

The title corny I know!!

An embossed blanket of fondant is placed on a buttercream

topped cupcake and dusted with Mother of pearl lustre.

Decorated with two fondant hearts and

lightly dusted again with the lustre.

Delicate

The title says it all.

This one was made because the design was in my head and I had to do it,

I wouldn't make this as an order,

as I was surprised it made it to the next room to get photographed without breaking,

although it has set quite solid.......but travelling? a big NO-NO!!!

I love the way this one looks...so fragile.

Frosted

With it being so cold and frosty out at the moment I thought I

would frost up a cupcake with silver dust!

As usual, decoration made out of fondant, and left

to completely dry

then covered in a dusting of edible silver.

Laura Ashley Inspired #2

Laura Ashley inspired cupcake #2

Green fondant stem/tendrils swirled around the top of a blanket of fondant,

with little leaves and an embossed,

red, three petal flower placed in the centre

Laura Ashley Inspired

I was totally inspired by the gorgeous fabric designs from Laura Ashley

and thought if I took some elements from them,

they would look beautiful on cupcakes!

So this is the first one I have made and hopefully,

some other designs will follow!!

Frosted SnowFlakes

Snowflake cupcakes made for Will (my son) to take to school tomorrow for his teacher's. They are my usual Vanilla cupcakes with a generous helping

of mildly flavoured RoseWater buttercream with a splodge of cream added....yum!

covered in a blanket of fondant sprayed with blue lustre on the one side and pearl lustre sprayed over top

(not that the photo shows this very well)

these were then decorated with various sized snowflakes

and a single edible pearl.

March Of The Penguin Cupcakes

30 Penguins (all handmade from fondant) toppers for cupcakes

made for my son's Classroom Christmas Party

to share out around all his classmates.

Pretty time consuming but worth it as the children and mothers

seemed to like them.

Snow Cookies

I made these cookies

and decorated them simular to the Snowflake Christmas Cake (see below)

Snowflakes made using the patchwork cutters.

The cookies are butter crunch cookies, covered in a circle of white fondant

and decorated with snowflakes and royal icing beads of snow.

Christmas is Coming!

I have been thinking of Christmas Cake designs

as the festive period is just around the corner,

& this is totally inspired from a

3 tiered snowflake cake by Lindy Smith

out of her book "To Inspire & Desire"

The Snowflakes are made out of fondant using patchwork cutters, and I

have got to say, they are not that easy to use!!!!

but I do like the result!

Fantasy

A large muffin sized vanilla cupcake with Rose Water flavoured Buttercream

covered in a shaped blanket of fondant lightly dusted with lustre.

The cupcake has been decorated with hand cut fantasy leaves, flowers and spiral tendrils,

which are all made out of fondant.

Cupcake in Bloom

A Vanilla, muffin sized cupcake covered in a fondant blanket with markings,

decorated with a single embossed red flower

and embossed leaves.

Mehndi Twist

A friend had asked if I could make a Mehndi/Henna inspired cupcake,

just for fun, and this is what I came up with.

I actually like how this looks.

Paisley Passion

I was inspired by all the paisley patterns out at the moment

so this is my take on it, in cupcake style.

I am very pleased with the outcome.

Again a regular sponge cupcake (muffin size) with buttercream, covered in a paisley shaped blanket of fondant, which I then marked and painted & dusted with silver.

The decorations are embossed and dusted with silver paisley shapes and flowers

all of which are edable.

This has got to be my favourite cupcake, I just love the look of it so much!

Romance

A sponge cupcake (muffin size) with buttercream and covered with a blanket of fondant

It has then been decorated with a single bloom and

a pair of embossed Hearts.

Dusted with silver.