Blue, White & Silver Cupcakes

I made these cupcakes all of last night and part of today. The lady ordered for her sister's wedding, and they chose lemon for the base and a vanilla buttercream for the frosting. We came up with these 3 designs, as they wanted to present one cupcake on each guest's plate at the reception as a welcome gift. I played with a lot of fondant for this order, it was tiring but very fun! Especially the handmade small blue roses. The F and J stands for the couple's name, and I tried my best to match it to the style of their invitation cards.

Turquoise and Pink Themed ROM!

You will not believe the drama I had with these gorgeous coloured cupcakes! They were for an ROM at the Marriot Hotel at the poolside. The couple are lovely and judging from their colour theme and set up, they are quirky, fun and filled with love!

Before I get started, the flavours were chocolate with vanilla buttercream (turquoise) and vanilla cupcakes with strawberry buttercream (pink). So anyway, I originally made the icing on these cupcakes are giant beautiful swirls and I planned to "sit" the fondant hearts on it. Guess what? The bellman at the front door loaded my big plastic storage box with the cupcake boxes inside onto the trolley, and he angled it high to get it up the steps and I said don't do that as they might topple! He said sorry and we went upstairs. But as you guessed it by now, I opened the box and everything had toppled and squashed ! All my hard work was literally gone!

Needless to say my face turned pretty "black" as I never had this happen to me before. I took a deep breath, gathered my thoughts, and asked the coordinator for a butter knife and I set to work. There were 48 cupcakes, but it took me nearly an hour to ice them all smooth and wipe the cupcake wrappers clean as everything was so messy! Bless my dad, sister and brother in law for coming to the rescue and they helped me fixed and cleaned everything up.

But with no doubt, the cupcakes still turned out beautiful and the fondant hearts with initials really dressed up the cupcakes and they looked beautifully whimsical sitting among the yummy dessert table. The bride and groom were pretty cool about it too, and I thank them for that!

Anita and Mark, I wish you both a long and happy life together! I promise next time I'll carry the box of cupcakes myself! ;)

Flowery Lilac & White Wedding

This has to be one of the prettiest cupcake tiers I've ever created. I don't just love the look of the handmade fondant flowers, but also the colour theme overall. The ROM was held at Bottle Tree Park by the lake house, and the theme was lilac and cream. Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream was the flavour, and the couple chose lilac coloured roses and white frangipanis with purple centres for the main event. The rose colour looks kinda blue in the photographs and the icing looks like a purple, but it real life it was more like a lilac colour. I dusted the roses and the frangipani centres with edible purple dust to give a more detailed effect, and finished off the tier with some lilac coloured fake roses (which my friend at Fleurlicious lovingly made). Ta dah!

Red, Black and White Wedding!

These eye catching red, black and white cupcakes were on Saturday evening for a couple's wedding dinner at The Hilton. If you recall, I had a posting titled red, black and white months ago and it features the couple's tasting samples. They wanted the butterfly effect in the end so I spent ages making them! My hands were kinda sore at the end of the night, but the look in the end was worth it. They chose red velvet as their flavour of choice for both the cupcakes and the little cake. The photos were taken on my sister's blackberry, the colour turned out way better then on my camera!

More Wedding Favours!

I made 22 of these champagne themed favours last week (the personalised tags were the champagne theme, not the cupcake colours!). She chose vanilla cupcakes with three different types of frostings: Chocolate Orange Buttercream, Strawberry Buttercream and Chocolate Raspberry Ganache. I'm not sure if you can see the design on the card, but if u click for close up there is a lovely damask print to the card. Check it out!

Sweet Pink Mini's!

These mini many shades of pink mini cuppies were made just the other day. Flavours included, sugee, red velvet, chocolate and lemon. Yum!

Wedding Anniversary Cupcakes

I made these wedding anniversary cupcakes a week or so ago, a lady ordered it for her parents Silver Anniversary celebration. The letters and hearts were suppose to be silver, and I dusted them with edible silver dust but it still looked white. Mental note to make the base light grey first next time! Happy Wedding Anniversary!