Cupcake bouquet

Good morning all!! Wow the weather has finally picked up! Bring on summer! So I thought I'd do a quick post to share what me and Carly go up to on Saturday. It was her friends birthday and we made her a cupcake bouquet! The idea came from the BBCGoodFood magazine and WOW! Carly made the sponge which was vanilla and orange then I did the piping. We had to change the piping as we couldn't find the 5 point star nozzle that was recommend by the recipe. We did buy another wired nozzle after watching some YouTube videos on how to pipe flowers but it was a disaster. The using for the recipe was rubbish so we just went with a colored butter cream. I'd anyone knows of a good video or something that can teach me how to pipe flowers and other things please let me know! As time was running short I went for the usual swirls and it was pretty effective once all put together. Carly's friend Cat helped do the leaves and took the pictures that I have used, thank you!

If anyone would like me and Carly to make something like this for you please contact me. We can do a number of colours/flavors in this design and a selection of other ideas and savory cupcakes that i will be posting on a cupcake page on here soon :D

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COOKIE MONSTER CUPCAKES!!!!

OMG!!!!! So last night me and Carly made Cookie Monster Cupcakes!!! And WOW they are soooooo cool!!!

I have yet to eat one tho because when we were making them I ate far far far too much butter cream icing that now I feel a bit sick thinking about it! But I'm sure later today I'll be craving the icing and the cake of course :D 

The best thing about them is that its not just boring sponge mix for the cake its Rhubarb and Ginger so a bit fancy too! The recipe for the sponge is from The Primrose Bakery Book but instead of using fresh Rhubarb as there wasn't any available atm we used tinned which is almost as good. For the Topping we made a vanilla butter cream icing with blue food colouring in it. And the fluffy bit is coconut. I put a load in a bowl and added food colouring and mixed really well until desired colour. Then laid it out on a baking sheet till dried then it was sprinkled onto the icing which was put on the cake by spoon. For the eyes we used white chocolate buttons and choc drops stuck on with icing. Then for the cookie use any type you like, we just used supermarket ones. Once the cake is iced and the coconut is on it make a slit through the icing and cake to fit in the cookie. Then put the eyes on after.

The cupcake would have looked nice also with a bit of the blue icing on and a little coconut sprinkled on the top too. Also what would be fun would be to change the colours of the icing and coconut and have some fun with it.

Invasion of the Cookie Monster in our fridge!

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