If a picture paints a thousand words here are 4000!
Not sure what to add really – I am so pleased with Jess’s 8th birthday cake. When I think back to my first attempts at a giant cupcake, how long it took, the stress, the result – what a long way we’ve come!
If you would like to order one for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, a special birthday or anniversary then please email me linda@filledwithlovecupcakes.org
What do you think?
Linda x
Giant cupcakes.
When I first saw these, on other bakers’ websites and facebook pages, they didn’t look too tricky. Then I was asked to bake one…
The first try ended up blitzed with buttercream into a batch of cake pops. The next one survived as far as the frosting stage where I could have wept over the whirls as I struggled to line them up before patching up the gaps in the icing with a myriad of sugar paste flowers.
Then followed the black and white cake – a labour of love for a Newcastle fan – which brings us up to date and to the above.
Huge thanks are due to Jo Wheatley for her giant cupcake recipe. Simplicity itself and the cake baked through in good time and without the edge becoming too crisp.
Credit should also be given to Jo for the photo in her Passion for Baking book which gave me the idea of piping small, separate, rosettes of buttercream rather than trying to go round and round replicating what you might do on a regular cupcake.
I ice the board as a matter of course now – which gives a nice canvas on which to pipe the birthday greeting. For the first time I embossed it, as well as adding a few extra buttercream rosettes and sugar flowers.
I scraped icing round the sides – not wanting it to be too heavy. Don’t try and look for a pattern in the pink and white rosettes – that is just random. As are the tiny hearts, pearls, and hand crafted flowers scattered over it.
A labour of love but next time will be easier – anyone else have a special birthday for someone coming up and interested in ordering one?
After a busy day like today it’s good to take a few moments to reflect on things. I usually do that over on the “writing” blog (www.lookingforlinda.blogspot.com) but on this occasion I will do it here.
Why would that be?
Because I am thrilled and honoured to say that I have been shortlisted by Woman and Home as one of their best food blogs!
Having been playing this game – and it does still feel like that – for just six months it goes without saying I am delighted. Especially as I didn’t even enter and the email came out of the blue!
Maybe it is true that sometimes things do happen for a reason. One door closes, another opens. Perhaps it is time to stop looking for a “proper” job and be thankful that I now earn – enough – doing the two things I most love. Writing and Baking!
Here are some of today’s creations – what do you think?
filledwithlovecupcakes 