Summer Cupcakes

 

 

 

Summer is officially here....

 

And to celebrate this I went on a Summer Cupcake course with my little sister. This was spread out over two Saturdays 9.30 am until 12'o clock.

Our first lesson we made bits to decorate our cakes out of Sugar paste and modelling paste. And our second lesson the following week we made cupcakes and cakes in ice cream cones and decorated them.

 

 

 

Pinwheel cakes as you can see the top one went a bit wrong! but tasted nice.

 

This is my strawberry one and lace worked cakes in the background.

 

 Cherries and cream

 

 Sliced lemon and a flower

 

 Summer flip flops

 

Ice cream anyone!!!!! These are the cakes made in ice cream cones, anyone who wants the recipe, just let me know and I shall post.

Sun glasses and lemon.

Flake ice cream.

 

The next class coming up in the autumn is Halloween..... but this gets busy, a bit like first come first served. So we will see if we can get on.

 

Once I brought these cakes home the cones went first followed by the rest.

 

Thanks for stopping by....  See you soon and happy baking.

 



Birthday Cake

I thought I would show you the cake my little sister made for the daughter's 3rd birthday party.

Isn't it amazing!!!!!!!!

My sister has been going to cake decorating classes on a Thursday evening at her local collage. First she did cake decorating and now she has progressed on to flower making. At the moment she is making a posy of flowers in class  and she has just finished making Lilly of the Valley.

I shall have to try and get pictures, with out her knowing why as she does not think she is good at it!!!!!!!!Why I don't know??????? I think she is fab and very clever but then she is my sister......

We are both off in June for another cupcake class, called Cupcakes and Flowers. Some how she will be miles ahead of me in the flower department. I can grow them and arrange them and make anything out of them but Make them!!!!!!! out of sugar paste? well that is something else.

But I shall show you the out come. Its set over 2 Saturdays so it will be longer that the Christmas Sugarcraft lesson I went too and loved.

We are also doing a Yeast and Bread making class on 2 Thursday's in June also. As we both want to make bread that lasts longer than one day. As by day two, it is only good for hitting someone on the head if they get on your nervous.... Yep it goes rock hard even the birds walk away in disgust!!!!!

These classes are all done at her local collage...  Such fun I just can't wait.

Thanks for stopping by................ see you soon..................................

Remember every day is a cake day

CupCakes and Sugarcraft

I left the cabin for the day to go with my little sister for a  Cup Cake and Sugarcraft course.

The Gang of Three did not like this; probably because I had to leave at 7am and they had just been up for an hour. Daisy had her toast at 6.15 am; which was 45 minutes too early. She was not impressed, Betty and Dotty both thought I was putting them back to bed as it was still dark at 7am. And Daisy...... well she was not having any of it. Refusing to follow me down to her house and run, I tried to bribe her with Cheese, did not work but Betty loved it. Tried her with a whole corn on the cob, still refused to move; Dotty had that and loved pecking at it. Then I tried porridge with warm milk, Daisy loves this on a cold morning, still refused and hid under the Ivy. Well time was getting on so I had no choice but to go in and get her out and what a noise she made, for someone so small she can wake the dead. Anyone would have thought she was being attacked by a fox!
Once they were locked away nicely in their run, with enough food for a party, off I went. One last look round to make sure they were fine as I locked up the cabin.. Daisy was staring back at me, frowning!!!!!
( I'm in the dog house, tomorrow is not going to be a good day. Daisy payback)

I have always made cakes, ever since I was small. Cupcakes I have decorated with buttercream topping and cakes with icing and buttercream. But I have never attempted Sugarcraft.

Well when we arrived we saw the cakes and my they were good, then the nerves kicked in. Oh my what am I doing here, I looked at my little sis and asked her if she was sure this was the right class.

See my little sis does a Cake Decorating Course on Thursday night's and she thought it would be good to do this class, as her tutor would be taking the class. Well I thought this could be a disaster.

Our Tutor's name was Ann Wilson and she had been teaching for 20 years + So she must be good and used to people looking nervous. And she was.....

Ann took us through all the cakes one by one, broke every design down and it was great, I loved it. Now when I look at these beautiful cakes I know how they are done.

We used modelling icing, glitter, sugarpaste ( icing ready made in the shops), food dye and had hand outs with recipes for Golden Syrup Cupcakes, Tomato Soup Cupcakes with Mascarpone Frosting, White Chocolate Ganache and Bailey's Buttercream. We learnt or should I say I learnt to pipe my cupcakes with the correct size tube. I have to use a Wilton open star tube for swirls. This is used on my green cupcakes. ( This is so they look like trees for Christmas and not because they have gone off, just in case you were looking at them wondering why they were green.)

 

 

We also learnt how to pipe a rose. I came out of class knowing how to do so much more now there is no stopping me and all my cakes will be sugarcrafted or piped. Watch out world here I come!



So if anyone else is wondering should I do a Cupcake and Sugarcraft course the answer is YES, you will love it!!!

 I arrived home at 7pm, went straight down to lock the girls away in their house.  I knew they would be fast asleep, they go to bed at 4.30pm. I tried not to make a sound.  Just as I  lent in  to close the door, Daisy popped her head up at the window and made this little noise and the look on her face said it all. What time do you call this, where do you think you've been all day. Just as I was about to say something, she stuck her head under wing and fell to sleep.
Oh I am in big trouble and tomorrow I will have hell to pay.

Thank- you for stopping by,  see you again soon....