Cupcake Donation

The cupcakes above were donated to go into a raffle for a Charity event

that is happening tonight in Gosport Hampshire, UK

organised by Hayley (owner of "Susans of Gosport")

where raised funds will be going to Gosports

 "Harbour Cancer Support Centre"

and

 "MacMillan"

Here's hoping it's a really good night!

These very voluptuous cupcakes are

Light and moist Vanilla Sponge

with a more than generous helping of creamy rosewater buttercream

all covered in a circle of fondant (some embossed)

and topped with either Dogwoods or a single large Bloom.

http://www.smallthingsiced.co.uk/

Gosport Lifeboat Cake #2

I was asked to make another Gosport Lifeboat cake,

and guess what....this one is for a Jonathan aswell!

How funny!

A lovely family, they found the boat cake online

whilst looking for some kind of inspiration...

they said they couldn't believe it when they saw that

I was in the same town as they!

Good for them and good for me ;0)

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The cake is a light vanilla sponge with buttercream

covered with fondant.

The waves on the board are fondant with royal icing.

Cake measures 8"x10"

and just over 3 inches deep (not including the centre piece)

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All Edible

http://www.smallthingsiced.co.uk/

Simple Domed Cupcakes

Will's going round to see his friend Harry after school today

and I was invited along for a coffee,

so it would be rude of me to turn up empty handed!

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These are just my simple Vanilla cupcakes flavoured with

Nielsen-Massey Vanillas, Vanilla Extract.

I get so excited everytime I reach for this fabulous flavour,

as soon as you open the bottle the aroma hits you,

sweet and rich with a hint of alcohol.........

ooooh....maybe that's what I am liking! LOL!!!

but seriously, for me, this is the best extract to buy!

The buttercream is left plain (not flavoured) but lots of it!

and covered with a circle of fondant.

Each cupcake has a single butterfly or blossom

with Pink/Purple tones.

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Lets hope they like cake! lol!

"NEW" Shabby Chic/Vintage cookies

These are some of the cookies I posted today to Norwich,

to the lovely couple who held on to my parcel

(whilst arrangements were made for redirecting)

I just wanted to give them a small token to show my appreciation.

These cookies are my new line..."shabby Chic/Vintage"

made in pale blues & greens with ivory royal iced piping, in the shape of "Lovebirds and Bird Houses". (The Lovebirds are handcut to give the intended shape)

These would suit any Vintage Wedding or a special Party and come in any 2 or 3 colour combo.

Cupcake Recipe

Click on the link below to download one of my basic cupcake recipes

 and please, while you are there take five minutes to look through the website

http://www.pancreaticcanceraction.org

It's such a good cause!

Ali Stunt (the founder of the website) is a rare survivor of the disease

......one amazing lady!

and is doing everything to increase awareness to everyone,

not only the public but the medical community and the government also

The survival rate of this type of cancer is only 3% of which you will agree is a real eye opener!

"Nicola" Anniversary Cake

This 2 tier cake was a bit of a rush job......

infact, this is a cake I made for our 8th Wedding Anniversary.

With the cakes I make for clients there is always planning involved,

but when it comes to making one for ourselves

it's usually a just few cupcakes as I have left it too late

or a very small cake.

This time I wanted a two tier and quickly made the vanilla sponges.

I mixed up this gorgeous pale duck egg blue coloured sugarpaste

(which the colour doesn't look true in this photo)

which I adore!!!

I hadn't a clue how to decorate it so I piped some royal icing pearls

at the base of each tier and placed an Ivory sugar bloom ontop......

I still wasn't happy with it, so I went and had a good

sort through my sugarcraft kit/tools drawers

and pulled out the dragonfly mould

..............perfect!

So I have a cake I would like,

I didn't want to make one in the style my husband would want

as it would probably have footballs all over it!!! lol!

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My Husband named this cake "Nicola" as

it's for our anniversary he thought it made sense!

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Cake size is

Top tier 5"

Bottom tier 8"

Marines Cupcakes

These cupcakes are an order I made for a lovely lady (Jo Sowerby) who is also

a follower of this blog and my facebook page :o)

She wanted some cupcakes for her friends son who has

joined the Royal Marines!

I usually make the sugar cap badges from a mould but unfortunately

wasn't able to get a badge in time for the order,

so I made one which is handcut and crafted....freehand,

it's a little larger than the actual badge size

but I am really pleased with the result!

and hopefully Jo and the newly Royal Marine will be too!

This cupcake is Lemon Sponge,

with a generous portion of Lemon Buttercream,

covered with a circle blanket of sugarpaste in dark green

to represent the "Green Beret" and topped with the edible

Royal Marine Badge.

The other cupcakes are of the same flavours,

but covered in a camouflage designed sugarpaste!

Thank you for the order Jo! x

I absolutely love making "Military Cakes"

and I have another Military cake order for early next year

I can't say anything about them yet,

but they are going to be really special...... so I can't wait to make those!

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http://www.smallthingsiced.co.uk

Black & White Cupcakes

Black & White Cupcake

Zebra Print case filled with vanilla sponge,

 with rosewater buttercream

and covered with a circle of white sugarpaste

...topped with a single white bloom.

 

The Animal print cupcake cases are purchased from

our local supermarket "Morrisons"

and I was very impressed with them,

the print didn't fade at all,

 as some cases I have bought in the past

from sugarcraft retailers, faded so much

..................and were quite pricey!

These come in a pack of 100 in four designs

(Black & White Zebra, Pink & White Zebra,

 Black Leopard Print & finally Grey Leopard Print)

and I think I just paid 99p

Bargain!

 

They are slightly smaller than the usual cupcakes I make,

but still a good, deep size!

 

http://www.smallthingsiced.co.uk/

"Anna" Wedding Cake

"Anna" Wedding Cake

2 Tier Wedding cake in Ivory

 with same colour sugar paste trim and ivory ribbon,

decorated with a single Anemone sugar flower.

I am loving this simplicity range

I'm doing at the moment

and will be making another 3 tiered one for

the weekend although a lot more work

is involved on one of the tiers!

Thanks for looking!

"Michelle" Wedding Cake

"Michelle" 3 Tier Wedding Cake.

A very deep tiered cake,

 simply iced in Ivory sugarpaste with a same colour sugarpaste trim

and decorated with a single large pink sugar flower

(the one I photographed last week)

I love the simplicity of this..........though it was hard not to add swirls and extra blossoms lol!

I guess sometimes less is more!!!

Sugar Bloom

A sugar bloom made out of flower paste

for a cake I'm making for next week.

The sugar flower isn't any particular flower especially,

it's somewhere between a Anemone and a Peony..........

Well, whatever it is, I think this

full bloomed, romantic looking blossom is beautiful

and couldn't wait to place it on a cake,

so I photographed it on it's own...

and love it!

Giant Cupcake Cake

Giant Cupcake Cake for Charlotte's 18th.

An order I received through my Facebook page from someone who is actually local! lol!

The theme was 60's, 70's & 80's and had to be bright coloured, so between discussions we came up with this and when the mother came to collect it, she loved it!

I have got to say this turned out a bit of a pain in the end as last night just after midnight I noticed the cake was starting to fall backwards and slightly crack........(it was so muggy last night so I am blaming the weather, as I took my time over this cake and did it by the book!) I started to panic, so I put two very small cake boards at the back, underneath to wedge it slightly, so then had to build the case part at the bottom back up......thank god I made the case in black fondant as it isn't so noticable. Got up this morning and it was still standing... phewwwww! I told the customer and she was great about it, and I rang her when she got home to see if it travelled OK ... which it did! so I can now relax!

The cake is Chocolate & buttercream.. "supported!!" and covered with sugarpaste.

Cake is 7" at widest and stands about 9" tall on a 10" board.

 

http://www.smallthingsiced.co.uk/

Vintage Sewing Machine Cake & Co-ordinating Cupcakes

I had an order from a lovely lady requiring a "Vintage, Singer Sewing Machine Cake" with co-ordinating cupcakes for her mother's 70th Birthday, as she used to be a machinist.

All these got picked up yesterday morning (Friday)

and travelled all the way from Gosport to Manchester.

I do hope everything got there in one piece,

although we did make sure everything was secure and flat!

When the daughter picked them up she said she was blown away by it

so I hope her mother feels the same way! :o)

The cupcakes are Vanilla and half were decorated to look like Pin Cushions and the other half had buttons and thimbles ontop.

The cake is also Vanilla sponge with buttercream.

The actual sewing machine isn't cake because of the distance it would have to travel we both agreed that polystyrene (A cake dummy) cut to shape and decorated would be the best option, so it stands on a board which can be cut off from the cake.

I loved making this, though a little time consuming in places but so worth it! I just love the look of this!

http://www.smallthingsiced.co.uk/

Children's Birthday Cakes

These cakes were made last week for Brother & Sister who

shared a Birthday party (yes, again I am late uploading pictures! tut!)

The first cake is a character named Lau-Lau from the TV program

Waybuloo.

The cake is Chocolate sponge carved then covered in sugarpaste.

The Narabug (butterfly) is sugarpaste and oh so CUTE!!! love it's little face!

The name & age plaques are shortbread cookies also

covered with sugarpaste.

The board has lots of glittery edible sparkles on as the character

loves all things glittery!

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The second cake here is a "Ben 10" theme cake.

This cake was Vanilla Sponge shaped like the Ben 10 watch face

covered and decorated in sugarpaste with green lustre balls (bubbles)

and the handmade character "Four Arms" as the topper.

This cake also had cookie name & age plaques

with the name airbrushed to give it the graded colour.

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I have since heard that they both loved their cakes,

thats the part I would like to see.... is their faces when the cakes are presented to them!

but very glad they enjoyed them....and enjoyed eating them too!!!

:o)

Poppy Wedding Cake

3 Tier Poppy Wedding Cake with a hint of Baroque style swirls as a background.

I made this cake (Dummy) to be displayed in Susan's of Gosport

 our local Wedding Gown Shop http://www.susansofgosport.co.uk/ and I might add that it is Gosport's one and only store of this kind,

 so I was very excited when my neighbour told me that her friend would like me

 to make a display cake for her store after seeing my cakes online.

Hopefully it will send some Wedding Cake business my way :o)

                                 When I dropped off the cake there were lots of people in there,

which aparently is the norm and the shop itself is lovely,

full of the most gorgeous Wedding Dresses (obviously!)

also Prom Dresses and Eveningwear....

can you guess that I am still excited about the whole thing!!!!

Anyway Hayley (the owner) loved the cake

 and of course the cupcakes I gave her (pictured above)

so she can actually say that she has tried the cakes herself.

Black & White and Red & White are very popular colour combo's for her at the moment

 so I said I would incorporate all three colours together and made this.

I absolutely love poppies and didn't realise actually how popular they are,

since I made the poppies I have seen them everywhere!!!

This cake is a 6", 8" (Double Depth) and a 10"

http://www.smallthingsiced.co.uk/

Teacher's Cakes

I have got a bit behind with my blog as I have

been a little busy with catching up with emails,

making cakes, family etc........ I really do try to blog my work as soon as I

have finished making the cakes but it doesn't always happen, a bit like my Saturday

morning lie-in! I didn't have that either as I had to deliver a display cake

(pictures will be above this in a moment) to a lovely shop this morning!

Anyway.................

This is a selection of cakes/cupcakes I made for my son to give to his teacher

and teacher assistants as "Thank You" gifts.

Quite a sad day, as it was his last day at Infant school on Friday

and will now be joinning the Juniors in September.......

my baby is growing up so fast :o(

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The top cake was given to his wonderful teacher

and was inspired by some costume jewellery (Brooch)

I had spotted online and thought it would make a

beautiful decoration, made out of sugar for a cake,

and I think I was right, really love this one!

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The second cake was given to the teacher's assistant,

another lovely lady, who I might add has had cakes from me in the past :o)

I love the flowers on this cake!

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The cupcakes were for another assistant who sometimes helps out

and were in style with the first cake.

Military Cupcakes

More Army Cupcakes!!!!

These cupcakes are Vanilla, Chocolate & Zesty Lemon

all with buttercream (the lemon ones have lemon buttercream)

and covered in black fondant,

topped with a RLC Cap Badge made out of flower paste,

apart from one cupcake which has a dark cherry colour fondant

and that one topped with an RAMC Cap Badge.

http://www.smallthingsiced.co.uk

Birthday Cupcakes

Just some of the cupcakes made for a Birthday order.

The White cupcakes were Zesty Lemon Sponge with Lemon Buttercream and the Pink were Vanilla with Buttercream and decorated with Butterflies and two types of Blossoms and one cupcake with a name banner.

http://www.smallthingsiced.co.uk/

Sack Boy Birthday Cake

It's Will's Birthday today

and he is a HUGE fan of Sack Boy from the PS3 game

"Little Big Planet"

and my sooo clever husband (NOT)

thought it would be a good idea to make this cake,

I was dreading it but actually enjoyed making this,

although I will have to figure out a better way to build this....

thank god we're not travelling anywhere with it!!!

This is a Vanilla sponge with Buttercream....

all decorations are edible

...I just love how the zip looks on him!!!!

www.smallthingsiced.co.uk

Bird House Cake

This cake was my donation to Will's School Summer Fayre to be put in the raffle...........a little sad to see it go :o( but very pleased to see people like it so much..... I had alot of compliments!

The idea behind this comes totally from

http://www.flickr.com/photos/neviepiecakes/3473384637/in/set-72157617217202713/ I fell in love with this Ditsy Gingerbread Bird House she made and have wanted to make a bird house cake ever since, I could never manage the superb painting that she does...I'm not that clever! but placed sugar dog woods instead on this shabby chic style cake.

Neviepiecakes......your work is so inspirational! and thank you for sharing your amazing talent for us all to enjoy!

Vanilla sponge shaped and covered and put on a 10 inch cake board.