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Purple and Orange BIRTHDAY Cupcakes

My girlfriend ordered 50 cupcakes for a party yesterday. When she first told me that she wanted PURPLE and ORANGE cupcakes, I asked "is it for Halloween??"
Nope.
It's for her daughter's 13th Birthday.

I was a little apprehensive with the PURPLE and ORANGE colour combo... but I think the colour combination turned out quite alright. What do you think??


As 49 cupcakes fit NICELY in a square box (the 50th would be the ODD one out!), I refunded her the money for 1 cupcake. HeeHee :-)

By the way, these are MINIs... half chocolate and the other half vanilla cupcakes - all frosted with vanilla buttercream and then decorated with fondant butterflies and flowers.

Almost fell asleep on my cakes

Yesterday was a super-rubbish day. Woke up with joint pains due to the changing weather, missed BOTH trains to work and had zero attention the whole day. Trip home was no better as well, with a cancelled train and freezing weather (not quite, but it was REALLY cold).

When I finally got home, I had to make 3 dozen cupcakes. It would've been okay if they were all the same, but I had to make ONE dozen strawberry cc, ONE dozen chocolate and ONE dozen red velvet and ALL for different occasions. It would be quite terrible if I cancelled the orders at the last minute, so I forged on make them. Finally finished about 1am, but caught myself on time from falling into the frosting bowl.

On the bright side, I think they turned out quite well!

Birthday - Red Velvet with Vanilla Frosting



Strawberry Glory



Spring Chocolate

Flowers, Flowers, Flowers

Recently, I got an order for a dozen cupcakes for a birthday. I had to make them quite late in the evening due to trains and bus delays (that's London for you :P) after work. Almost fell asleep making them, so was slightly nervous about the cakes not turning out right. Luckily, all went well! Only thing is, my kitchen was a bomb after that and I couldn't be bothered to clean it up. Bleah.

30, Flirty and Thriving?

Seems like only yesterday when I turned 30. Sigh....30, not flirty, and definitely not thriving! I had an order for 30 cupcakes to celebrate a 30th birthday and the birthday girl actually had TWO parties to celebrate this special day. I don't think I can even last through one, much less two parties. Old before my time :P.

Happy Diwali / Happy Deepavali

Happy Diwali / Deepavali! Had an order for the Festival of Lights. Thought I should give the cakes some bright colours to make it more festive.

Feeling blue...

Bye Bye K!!!

A good friend and colleague, K, is off on maternity leave from today. Sigh...no more gossips over coffee and breaking out into weird dance moves in the pantry. Will miss you!!

Birthday Cupcakes for a Little Girl

I had a last minute order yesterday for a dozen cupcakes for a 3-year-old girl's birthday. Since it was sooooo last minute, I stuck to tried and tested vanilla cupcakes with flowers and butterflies. Can't go wrong with flowers and butterflies when it comes to little girls right?

Pink Birthday Cupcakes for a Guy?

A colleague ordered a dozen cupcakes for her boyfriend's birthday. Her dilemma? She was dying for vanilla cupcakes, but the boyfriend really likes strawberry cupcakes, and ordering two dozens will be too many. Her solution? Make the frosting pink to give the illusion of strawberries!

I thought I should make the cupcake slightly more 'manly' by adding some black icing on the letter 'Z'. Quite 80's, don't you think?

Spring Garden

Made these for BF's office to announce our engagement. Since there are loads of girls in his department, I decided to make the vanilla cupcakes a little girly, with flowers and butterflies.

London A-Calling...

Happy flowers

Made these for an office party. Everyone loved the flower power feel of them.

Bunnies

Carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting won't be complete without bunnies!