Birthday Cake & Daiquiri Cupcakes

This week i got an order for a small 6" birthday cake decorated with flowers. The cake was a plain cake filled with raspberry jam and buttercream. I decorated with daisies.

I had some left over cake mix so i decided to experiment a little by adding strawberry flavouring and rum to create Strawberry Daiquiri cupcakes. 

I had enough mixture to make 12 mini's, while the cakes were baking I made some strawberry rum glaze, and brushed each cupcake with it once cooked while they were still warm.

Glaze Recipe:

75g Caster Sugar

5 tbsp Water

3-4 tbsp White rum

1 tsp Strawberry flavouring

Add sugar and water to a saucepan and bring to boil stirring continuously. Turn down heat and simmer for 5mins. Remove from heat and carefully add Rum and strawberry flavouring. Leave to cool.

I then used the left over buttercream, added strawberry flavouring and more rum and swirled onto my mini cupcakes.

TTFN 

Lynsey xx

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Easter Cupcakes

Thought i would surprise my workmates tonight by baking some Easter cupcakes in preparation for Easter next week. I quite proud of how they turned out, as this is the first time I've used my grass nozzles.

 £6 for a box of 4 Easter Cupcakes

 £13.50 for a box of 9 Easter Cupcakes

£9 for a box of 6 Easter Cupcakes

If you would like to order any cupcakes for Easter please email me on contact@cupcakeaholic.co.uk

or though the contact form on our website

TTFN 

Lynsey xx

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Birthday Order

Heres a few pics of a birthday order I had this week

Hi-Hat Cupcakes

This week i made some Hi Hat cupcakes, what are Hi Hat Cupcakes you ask?! Take a look....

Traditional Hi Hat cupcakes are delicious cupcakes swirled high with marshmallow and dipped in melted chocolate! One word... YUM! These were so fun and sooo messy to make!

I didn't have all the ingredients needed to marshmallow frosting so I decided to make my hi hats with a bit of a difference peanut butter frosting and strawberry frosting. I baked all my cupcakes, let them cool and topped half with peanut butter frosting (recipe here) and half with strawberry frosting. I did try to make strawberry marshmallow buttercream with melted marshmallows, but it just ended up on big sloppy mess so lets not go there!

I then melted two bars of dark chocolate and left to cool slightly. I dipped my first one into the chocolate and OH NO the frosting fell off!! :-( After salvaging the frosting from the melted chocolate I decided it would me much easier to pour on the chocolate instead.

I topped the strawberry ones with hundreds & thousands and melted some left over white chocolate candy melts to decorate the peanut butter ones.

And an inside view...

Gothic Cupcakes

After making super girly cupcakes on Wednesday i had an order for Dark Gothic Cupcakes with red writing. These cupcakes had to be black cakes with black icing and words such as DEVIL, EVIL & SIN written on in Red.

To make these cakes i made chocolate cakes and added Black food colouring to both cake and icing. I added some black glitter and black sugar crystals to the top of icing. Half of the cakes had wording and the other half i sprinkled with silver sugar balls.

Birthday Cupcakes

Wednesday was my Mother in Law's birthday and i wanted to make her some birthday cupcakes that matched her personality.

As she absolutely LOVES Purple and pearls so these defo had to be included. I had also just got some new icing nozzles and texture sheets in the post so i decided to put them to the test.

OMG! Donut Cupcakes

I've just been doing a bit of research into possible flavour ideas this month and i've found something soo tasty i want to go bake it now! Donut cupcakes!!! i found these on Perfect-Parties.com

My Workmates are going to love me when i take these into work...