Cupcake Factory;

As an early christmas present, Mum bought me a cupcake factory machine, to test it out, I decided to make a batch of miniature cupcakes to see how the machine fares against the conventional oven.

Needless to say, I still prefer the oven, but this little appliance is pretty neat, it cooks the cupcakes super fast! I whipped up a batch of vanilla cupcakes, and filled them with the usual fillings; lemon butter, raspberry jam, nutella, and peanut butter frosting. I made basic buttercream frosting and mixed it with white chocolate ganache, coloured wildly with food colouring, then covered the cupcakes with different sweets, including jellybeans, hersheys kisses and kool fruit chews.

The weather was extremely humid that day, so everything was melting and misbehaving. Regardless, they turned out okay, and everyone seemed to enjoy them :)

Summer;

Coming into the warmer weather, my friend Nathan threw pool party and korean BBQ at his house. I forgot to take pictures of the lovely bonfire we had going and all the delicious food, but anyways, he'd been speaking of his love of raspberry and chocolate muffins, so I decided to make him a version of his favourite muffin. These cupcakes are vanilla and white choc chip cake, with a raspberry jam filling, topped with a vanilla buttercream. The boys basically inhaled them, which was amazing and scary to watch at the same time!!

I'd also like to mention the amazing cupcake papers, which were given to me for my birthday, they look amazing!

A dinner party with friends;

I love dinner parties, if I had my own place, I am fairly sure I would host one every week. Our dear friend Jordan hosted his triennial dinner party recently, there was an abundance of food and liquor, and I contributed my Lemon Meringue cupcakes into the mix (any excuse to get the kitchen blowtorch out!).

The artsy side of Jordan comes out, Specials: Gluttony with a side of inebriation and your choice of a hangover or salad





The table of goodness.




Lemon Meringue Cupcakes; vanilla sponge cake with lemon butter filling, and an italian buttercream frosting browned with a kitchen blowtorch. Delish.

RSPCA cupcake day

As previously mentioned, this year I participated in RSPCA cupcake day, my fundraising was extremely successful, however this would not have been possible without the help of my amazing friends, who not only bought so many of the cupcakes, but helped me decorate them all. My house was transformed into a mini-bakery for a day, and I loved it making the cupcakes and just hanging out with my friends for a good cause. Combined with the generous donations, almost $500 was raised!

Here are the cupcake pans filled and ready to go in the oven, this process was repeated 24 times!!


Here are the cupcakes baking in the oven.

Cooling cupcakes, almost ready to be filled, iced and decorated!


7 flavours of cupcakes were made:
Frogs - Vanilla cake with mint buttercream filling and icing.
Lions - Vanilla cake with lemon butter filling and lemon buttercream icing.
Dogs - Chocolate cake with chocolate fudge filling and icing.
Pigs - Strawberry swirl cake with strawberry jam filling and strawberry buttercream icing.
Chicks - Chai cake with vanilla buttercream.
Sheep - Vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream filling and icing.
Cats - Vanilla cake with peanut butter filling and peanut butter flavoured icing.


Mass production of cupcakes, cupcakes coming from my ears. The smell was divine. Bring on RSPCA cupcake day 2011!!

Apology;

I'm a terrible blogger, I know. So very slack in posting regularly. I have a 4 month backlog of bakings to be posted, so I apologise in advance for the bombardment of cupcakes about to take place...