Cupcakes part 2

Now I just have a few more pictures to finish up on the cupcake theme..

I had an interesting order from Justyna’s friend Aleks, who asked me if I could make 20 cupcakes with Nepalese flags on, for a charity event.  I had no idea what the Nepalese flag looked like, so after asking her about different images I had seen on a Google search, I decided to do half of the cupcakes with the shaped flags I had seen, and half with the colours and motifs, but just cut into circles to fit on top of the cupcakes.

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Nepalese flag cupcakes

I had massively underestimated how long it would take to make the tiny motifs!  Including my practice ones, I had made over 50 of them, and think they were a suitable representation of the actual flag!

Nepal Flag

Nepalese flag

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Nepalese flag

 

 

Afterwards Aleks sent me a lovely email telling me how pleased she was with the cupcakes, and what a success the event was, which was great news.

 

 

 

 

Although I spend a lot of my time baking for orders, I still like to bake for family occasions when I get the time, and a BBQ with James’ family seemed a great opportunity to bake and to make some cute animal cupcakes for his cousin’s young daughters.  I wanted animals they could easily identify, and was impressed that they could recognise them all from my attempts!  My only slight disappointment was that I didn’t give the panda larger black circles around his eyes, but I thought the cupcakes looked pretty cute!

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Animal cupcakes

I also made a variety of other cupcakes, some of them with these cute cupcake cases and picks!

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Yummy!

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Eat me!

 

To finish this post I have another new idea to share.  I had been wanting to try this for sometime, and it seemed perfect for my mum’s birthday, partly because I was also decorating a wedding cake that weekend, so that was going to require the majority of my time.  Knowing that my mum loves hydrangeas, I decided to try out making a cupcake bouquet of blue hydrangeas!  I had tried a new cupcake recipe, but didn’t really like the results – it was for shortcake cupcakes, which I discovered I don’t really like!!  And as they were shortcake cupcakes, the texture was a bit crumbly, and I wasn’t confident that they would hold very well when assembled into the bouquet.  So, I went back to my original sponge recipe, and made as many hydrangea flowers as I could in one evening!  After a night to dry, I used petal powder to colour the flowers, and decorated each cupcake before making them into the bouquet.  I then just added the final touches with some green tissue paper, and was really pleased with the end result!  I was delighted when I arrived at my mums, and she thought it was a real plant!!

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Cupcake bouquet of blue hydrangeas