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

Under The Sea

A couple of days ago, my ex-neighbour texted me to thank me and to ask if I sell my cupcakes (I had given them some of the snowman/snowflake cupcakes). Her son (who is the same age as my older one) was going to camp and she wanted to order some for him to share with his friends.

She was very flexible in that she didn't mind what flavours or colours they were. So I just did half vanilla and half chocolate. At first, I thought I'd do a Christmas theme then changed my mind as I wanted to use the sea creatures-shaped sprinkles that I have. I didn't want to do all blue again as I've been doing that, so decided to do half blue and half green. There's loads of green under the sea, right? ;)

The sprinkles are shaped sharks, dolphins, turtles, sea lions, fish and sea horses. Hmmm...I wonder if the kids noticed them!

Lemon Cupcakes

Lemon Cupcakes

After such a long long time, I finally found some time and energy to bake! My colleague's birthday's tomorrow, and so I had promised that I'd bring cupcakes for afternoon tea in our weekly meeting today.

Although I ended up staying up until 12:30am, it was fun because I had a play of my MIL's Kenwood Chef!

Can't wait to bake my banana-walnut-cinnamon muffins tomorrow!!

Honey Loaf

Decided to bake something a little different. Tried this Honey Loaf recipe from Rachel Allen's bake book. Panicked a little because the recipe asked for 3oog plain flour, but i only had 200g. Tried to be smart and add self-raising flour, and overdid it as well. The taste of the honey really came out nicely, but due to my flour mishap, was a bit dry :(. Oh well, still went well with a nice cup of tea :).

Birthday...again

Snowflake and Snowman Cupcakes

I had a lot of buttercream left from the birthday cupcakes on Saturday. I never know how much to make and always end up making so much more than I need! But more is better than less, as I found out one time when I had an order. I decided to make less and I ended up not having enough to frost the LAST TWO cupcakes!! Boy, was I annoyed! Actually, 'annoyed' is a very polite way of saying how I felt that day! Sigh.....

Back to the buttercream I had left. So, on Sunday, I decided to make some cupcakes for my neighbours. Since it's nearing Christmas, I of course decided to go with that theme. I didn't want to use a lot of colour and I had the blue buttercream left, so decided to do snowflakes. At the last minute, decided to do a snowman, using the same tip as I used for the snowflakes.

Birthday Boy(s) Cupcakes

My friend, whose son is allergic to dairy, ordered these cupcakes for her two sons' birthday party. The older boy is four and the younger son is one. She saw the picture of the other blue birthday cupcakes I did a couple of months back and wanted the same. Well, not exactly the same. The sprinkles are star-shaped and we left two dairy-free chocolate cupcakes without frosting for the older boy. I dusted them with icing sugar and the candles '4' and '1' were put on them.

Happy Birthday, James and Daniel!