Hi everyone, apologies as I'm not very good at remembering to take pictures of my creations after I've made them - oops! Haven't been particularly busy recently but have experimented with cookies which...must admit I'm not brilliant, they were either too dry or too soggy :( Did make my famous white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake for friends in work which went down well as always!
It was the beautiful Phoebe from work's birthday last weekend so I decided to start a little cake fund for her and make a special birthday giant cupcake as a surprise for her :) So off I went to hobbycraft and got some pink colouring, sugarpaste flowers, glittery shimmery dust (that ended up not actually being edible) and some candy melts and heart moulds (that I didn't even use :p)
The recipe for the cake is just copious amounts of a basic sponge recipe with less baking powder than I'd normally use and plenty of cocoa powder to make it look and taste super chocolatey :)
I used a really small amount of pink paste colouring on the tip of a knife in the vanilla fondant icing then piped it with the largest star nozzle I had for the piping bag. This is the first time I've ever piped a giant cupcake so rather proud of myself!
I decorated it with the sugarpaste flowers, I will try and make my own this time...didn't have time on this occasion. I was going to use the candy heart melts sandwiched between florist wire to place in the top of the cake, but they were too heavy for the wire and ended up being super droopy...plan aborted! So I kept it simple and decorated the cake stand a little with pretty pearly hearts from the wedding decorating section! Finished off with Phoebe's name piped with white writing icing and some matching mini (or normal sized) cupcakes!
and here is the finished product...
