Happy New Year!

Welcome 2009! I had a great Christmas and New Year surrounded by my friends and family. It is especially enjoyable this year as my little boy was able to enjoy opening presents more this year.

New Year celebrations was spent in a nice quiet town in the mountains, a big change to previous years as New Years Eve is my husbands birthday and it was always at his parent's place with the rest of the clan. So this year it was just us and his sister's family. I also decided last minute to bake him a chocolate cake. It was a hit!

My hope for The Little Cupcakery this year is to continue creating cupcakes for people and hopefully have more time to experiment and create new and exciting designs.

Christmas Cupcakes

Here is my latest christmas cupcakes. Snowman, reindeer and xmas tree toppers all out of fondant. My favourite of the Rudolph, the antlers were particularly tricky in the summer heat...I hope you enjoy these...there are more to come!

The Little Cupcakery is born!

I forgot to post a few weeks ago that I have finally registered my business name.
So THE LITTLE CUPCAKERY is officially opened for business! Yay!

Rose Cupcakes

My mum and Aunt from the USA were nice enough to get me some new cake decorating tools recently and the following cupcakes I made on the weekend were my play around creations using my new tools.

I especially like the daisy centres, primrose cutter and 5 petal rose cutter.

Thanks again Ang family and Mum.

Christmas Cupcakes

I made some christmas cupcakes for my sister's christmas party with her friends. They were all mini choc mud cupcakes iced with buttercream frosting. The cupcake toppers were xmas trees, holly, snowman and xmas wreath.

The snowman was a hit with the little kids.

Pink Blossom and Butterfly Cupcakes

Playing around with some left over cupcakes...I embossed small fondant butterflies and dressed it with a mini blossom.

Fairy Birthday Cake 'n' Cupcakes

This cake is my first birthday cake request. I found covering the 10" cake with fondant was quite tricky for me...I think I took too long rolling it out so I got some fine cracks on the icing.
The cake was white chocolate mud cake then iced with white chocolate ganache then the fondant.
The decoration were fondant blossoms and the fairy too was out of fondant.
The request also included 6 standard sized cupcakes, so I used the same blossom design as the toppers.

CUPCAKERY TIP #2: If you don't have pretty butterfly cutters to create the fairy wings, another way is to use a 5 petal blossom cutter and remove 1 petal. Pair 2 petals and fan it out to create wings. Then use a smaller size 5 petal blossom cutter in a different colour glue it on to the larger wing to create the two-toned fairy wings effect.