Cupcakes!

Decorating cupcakes is somewhat time consuming, rather messy and copious amounts of fun. Wayne even got involved and made his own creation which I termed the "carnival cupcake". Much fun was had by all :)



The right cupcake is Wayne's carnival cupcake :)

 More photos after the jump:)

Books!

I love recipe books… Love them! My order from Kalahari.com arrived today and I can’t wait to get home and have a proper read through them.

The new additions (or editions rather) to my bookshelf are (all published by The Australian Women’s Weekly):

• Easy cupcakes by colour
• Christmas
• Kids’ birthday cakes
• Just for two

I’m going to tackle a couple of the easy cupcakes by colour recipes this weekend and will get back to you with a review at some point next week :)
Happy cooking all!

Cupcakes - Too cute to eat!

My first attempt at decorating cupcakes with something other than a smear of butter icing was, in my opinion, something of a success. The Bug (my mom) and I went to a cupcake decorating workshop in Everton, run by Zolita and her mother Zola. Zolita prepared the faces and flowers for us to use the night before, and taught us various techniques for piping butter icing. She also explained how best to make and use the butter icing for cupcake decorating. I will definitely go to another of her workshops again.

Here are the cupcakes that my mother and I made:

The Bug putting together her dog in the grass

Zolita's Studio

The Bug's decorated cupcakes