Cupcakes

Hands down these are my favourite cupcakes to date. I got a request for ‘Modern Art’ themed cupcakes for a friend of ours’ daughter to take to school. ACTUAL dream come true. Not only did I finally manage to put my Art History degree to good use, but I got to do it through the medium of cake! I thought I would challenge myself by making each of the 24 cupcakes have different pieces of art. I made a list of all my favourite Modern Artists and their most famous artworks then began hand making each of the toppers. I started with Frida, a personal fave, and worked my way through from Warhol, Picasso, Dali, Monet, Van Gogh and loads more. For most of them I …

I’m having a bit of a moment when I have too much to share and don’t know where to start. Just picture me as that girl emoji with her hands on her head looking a little overwhelmed. Yep that. I’ve been so super occupied with making, testing, drawing and planning that my camera and sketchbook are full, but the blog has seemed a bit empty. Don’t worry, I get how boring it is to hear about how busy someone is so here are sweet chocolate, caramel dripping, frilly flower cupcakes which are faaar more entertaining. I made these …

Chocolate on chocolate on chocolate. Lindt specificially. That’s how we are doing things over here today. Not a summer fruit in sight. Before I started to make and assemble these cupcakes I made a Lindt ganache. This was equal measures (300g each) of Lindt chocolate bars crushed and double cream. I then made my favourite chocolate cupcakes recipe. Once they …

I’m overwhelmed with excitement and nostalgia. These cupcakes are celebrating the fact that S Club 7 have reunited and I get to sing and dance to all those amazing songs that made my childhood so much fun. This weekend they were ‘Bringing it all Back’ to the O2 and I made these cupcakes inspired by the tour. They featured the …