Whimsical Midnight Bloom

OK! last night I was thinking about Halloween, and wanted to do some cupcakes but without the usual pumpkins, bats, etc....... and wanted it to have a feminine floral touch, so I came up with this, not spooky or anything but I do like the whimsical look and I love the colours. but I will be using different cases, if I could find a matt silver that would be perfect, so if anyone finds some PLEASE!! let me know!

This is just a regular Vanilla, muffin sized cupcake with buttercream and a blanket of fondant dusted with Silver & Rimini Blue lustre, decorated in the usual blossom and Whimsical leaves and balls, all covered in the lustre.

Chocolate Brown & Pink Embossed Cupcake

This cupcake is a vanilla sponge topped with buttercream

and covered in a blanket of pink embossed fondant,

that has then had a dusting of lustre dust

and finished off with a pink & brown

handmade fondant flower.

This one is now one of my favourite designs.

Inspiration in Ruby & Cream

I named this cupcake Inspiration because I was inspired

by a good friend, Bev (SugarBloom Cupcakes)

if you haven't seen her work I advise you to go and check her Blog

you will find her link in My Favourites.

I took the design from my last cupcake (the green & purple one)

as I loved the embossing so much I copied it

and put it on this cupcake.

Green & Purple Embossed Cupcake

Just some cupcakes I have made to practice some new embossing mats out on. I love this one so feminine. I have painted the embossing a different shade to highlight it and also added some fondant flowers, where the embossed flower should be, so it looks like they are popping out! Then sprayed the whole cupcake with lustre.

Cupcake Wrappers

Butterflies & Stripes Flowers & Swirls Hearts An Assortment

This is an assortment of cupcake wrappers handmade by me.

I love the American laser cut ones and now we are able to purchase them over here in the UK,

but they are so expensive.

This is a cheaper alternative, although quite time consuming,

I think they are pretty charming.

Will definitely be making some more,

a good excuse to buy some more of that gorgeous card.

Decorated Butterfly Cookies

My first fondant covered Cookies. I got the idea for the butterflies from http://www.cakejournal.com/

I enjoyed making these, and my son enjoyed eating them.......but NOT the pink ones, they're for girls! hahaha!!!!

I opted for a cookie that wasn't too sweet in taste, as it has quite a bit of fondant on it!

All in all, I am pretty happy with the outcome of these!

Definitely will be doing more cookies in the future!

Shabby Chic Cupcakes

Peach Toned Cupcakes.

The top tier cupcakes have buttercream, covered with a circle of fondant

and decorated with a single peach rose.

The bottom tier has peach toned buttercream swirls,

decorated with a rose and little flowers in peach & cream.

Ideal for afternoon tea!

Pink Floral & Butterfly Birthday Cake

A Vanilla sponge filled and crumb coated in buttercream, then covered in pink fondant, placed on a fondant covered board.

The cake is then decorated in handmade flowers and butterflies.

Sacher Torte

A Sacher Torte Dessert Cake, so rich and chocolatey it tastes devine. Lovely by it's self or served with Creme Fraiche or Cream.

I actually made this one for my Huband and me, as it was our Wedding Anniversary and we both love it so much. The Chocolate Glaze over top is so thick and gorgeous.

I have decorated this with pastel coloured fondant flowers, scrolls, butterfly and dragees.

If you like chocolate you'll love this!

3D Tooth Cake

This cake stood about 8 1/2 inches high and was 6 1/2 inches across.

It is all cake from top to bottom, which is a vanilla sponge with buttercream filling and covered with white fondant sprayed with a Pearl Lustre to give it a beautiful sheen!

This was the most stressful cake I have made to date! but I am happy with the result.

RAF Birthday Cake

This is a rich chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream filling. The whole of the cake was covered in blue fondant and the top has 3 fondant circles cut to size to replicate the RAF flag. The RAF badge was hand cut and carved out of fondant and coloured with lustre colours

Pink Floral Delight

Just a plain vanilla cupcake decorated with pink buttercream and dressed with pearls and handmade dusky pink blooms.

Combat Boobs Cake

A cake I made for a friend who is leaving the army. Apparently I said that I would make him one of these, but I don't even remember the conversation???........mind you I had, had quite a bit to drink at the time Hahahaha!!!!!!.....works do's, you know what there like!

Anyway, I am pleased with the outcome of this cake, and hopefully he will like it too!

Swirls

A couple of cupcakes left over from the combat cakes (see below), so with the spare buttercream which was also left over from the combat cakes I decided to use it to make some quick pretties for my son and me to eat up!....................Yum!! I just love that green colour!

Combat Cakes

My husband wanted me to make some cakes for work to welcome the new C.O. (Commanding Officer) to the unit. I was told "NOTHING WITH FLOWERS" ....tut! men, hey! So we came up with this! you can probably tell from the design he is in the Army.

The little boots that I made here were inspired from another flickr friend "Zalita" who kindly let me use her idea. I had intended to make more of these, but they were too time consuming!!!!.............. but I think one set is enough! The camouflage fondant took quite some time to make too, but the whole effect turned out great!

Rose Cuppies for the Teachers

Made for my son's Teachers & TA's to say thank you and goodbye on the last day of term.

Laptop Cake

This is probably my favourite cake to date!

It was made for an 18th party, I wasn't sure how to make the screen, as this didn't have to be edible, but thanks to some of my Flickr friends (Egg Yol! & CakesByShara) they helped me out.

The cake it's self was (bottom layer) chocolate sheet cake covered with blue fondant, next layer (laptop part) was chocolate sheet cake covered with fondant and painted silver and then just decorated with the keyboard (which the keys were all cut out and painted separately) and things...such as mouse, cables, buttons, etc........... the ipod was a last minute addition, as I accidentally dented the front of the blue cake and needed something to conceal it (this was hidden by the earphones).

All in all, I was very, very pleased with the look of this cake.

Power Ranger Overdrive

I love, love, loved making this cake! This was for my son's 5th birthday (party) who told me he wanted a power ranger cake! I have shown you this in stages, as it was quite a big cake! The first picture shows the cake sandwiched together and shaped like a helmet. The second has been covered in a thin layer of buttercream and put aside to dry for a while. Third photo shows the cake covered in blue fondant and smoothed to give it that helmet look, and again left to dry. And finally, the finished Power Ranger! Everything edible, all except for the candles! The words from my son were.......Mummy, I love my Power Ranger Head!!!...................haha!! bless!.........And then we cut the Power Ranger's head open...WHAAAHAHAHAHAA!!!

Subaru STi

Blue Subaru STi. I was asked by a friend if I could make her son a Subaru car cake for his birthday, this was fun to do, although the shape isn't exact they absolutely loved it!!! ....Thank God!!!

One Off

I fancied having a go at something alittle different, a bit more elegant (well they are for me!)

The top cupcake has buttercream swirled on top with a blanket of embossed fondant, the fondant is then dusted with lustre dust, decorated with a bronzed rose & leaf and finished off with a sugar diamond.

The bottom cake has the buttercream swirls with fondant flowers (and in this case they are very delicate) these are too brushed with lustre dust, with pearls for their centers.

Lilac, Pink & Purple Hills

I love these, so colourful and fresh looking. I made these just for fun, just for me!............oh yeah and my family!...tut!

School Fete Cupcakes

Cupcakes made for my son's School Fete for fundraising. Top photo shows the Chocolate & Treacle cupcakes with chocolate buttercream decorated with fondant blossom and cachous/pearls. The middle photo has Chocolate & treacle cupcakes and Vanilla cupcakes with buttercream and fondant flowers. Where the bottom one shows just vanilla cakes with rosewater buttercream, fondant flowers and cachous/pearls.

Lemon & Lime Cupcakes with Honey & Rosewater Buttercream

................................................................................... Although the cupcakes in these two pictures look so different, they are from the same batch. Both are Lemon & Lime cupcakes with Honey & Rosewater Buttercream, it is just the decor and size that differs. The cakes on the left (decorated with Red Blooms) were posted onto "cupcakes take the cake" site, of which I was thrilled to have been asked if they could have it on there, after they had seen it on my Flickr photostream. It's nice knowing that others like what I have made!

Father's Day Cakes

I was asked to make two Father's Day Cakes this year with the design left up to me, so I decided to go for the "Garden Theme". The first cake was chosen with a man mowing his lawn, because at the time the gent who the cake was for, was obsessed with his lawn looking flawless. So I made it with a comical element to it! The cake is an ordinary victoria sponge, filled and covered in buttercream, and left to dry (crust over) a little. Then the whole of the cake was covered in green fondant and again left to dry, ready for decoration. The second one was exactly the same cake just decorated differently! this one was for and older gentleman, so I made a garden bench with a newspaper sitting on it, and on the newspaper I had written (in a column) "Happy Father's Day! of which I thought was a nice touch!