wimbledon tennis cupcakes

I’ve been enjoying the tennis this past week. While in Wimbledon I couldn’t resist visiting the Sugarpova Pop-Up shop in the Village for a sweetie fix. We took some silly photos and browsed the shop. I picked up a few things but my favourites have to be …

Oh yessss it’s that time of year again! I’ve swiftly moved on from pretending to care about the football to wholeheartedly getting excited about Wimbledon. It starts today and I’m so looking forward to enjoying the tennis, drinking Pimms and eating strawberries and cream. Last year to celebrate I made these, but this year I wanted to go for something a little bigger. I picked up a couple of these tins and was inspired to make some slightly larger than life tennis ball cakes filled with fresh strawberry buttercream. I used a basic vanilla cake recipe to make 8 cake halves for 4 tennis balls. Once baked, I left them to chill in the fridge overnight so they would be easier to cut. To make the halves fit together better I …

Wimbledon Tennis starts this week and to celebrate we decided to have a party.  Pretty much everything was green and purple themed from our clothes down to the balloons, straws, plates and candles. We started with afternoon tea, for which I made …