I hope you’ve had a merry Christmas and happy holidays! This year, we got together with Jac’s family the weekend before Christmas with a barbecue lunch at Point Walter, on the Swan River in Bicton. We set up in a shady spot next to the water so Jac and the boys wouldn’t have far to […]
On a Thursday evening after work, I attend a Cupcake Teaser Workshop run by Cake Love – Couture Cakes. The class is an introduction to cupcake decorating using fondant and is held in the back room of gourmet food and kitchenware shop Epicurious in Subiaco. Each participant has her own eight cupcakes to decorate. I’ve […]
Manager L brought cupcakes to work for afternoon tea. There’s something about sprinkles that makes me really want to eat a cupcake! And I love the festive polka dot serviettes that make an appearance every morning or aftertoon tea! The cupcakes were fluffy and soft and utterly enjoyable. The sweet icing was a perfect sugary […]
It was workmate H’s birthday, and she brought in a big batch of cupcakes topped with icing and Clinkers. Sharp-eyed readers will notice some of the cupcakes had TWO Clinkers on top. Needless to say, those didn’t last long! Here is my chosen cupcake before it met with my teeth. The cupcakes were initially stashed […]
This is post 3 out of a series of 8 posts (the full list is at the end of this post). The weddingFriday was the wedding day! The wedding ceremony was held at the island chapel. It took the bride and groom around 15 years and two kids to get to this happy day, and […]
J made these lovely cupcakes for her birthday afternoon tea. They were vanilla and raspberry cupcakes with lemon and cream cheese icing. She brought the cupcakes to work un-iced. Just before afternoon tea, she spread the cream cheese icing liberally on the cupcakes and sprinkled little colourful flowers (what are they called?) and silver balls [&he…
Last Monday, my workmate R turned up to work with cupcakes which she’d made to sell for RSPCA Cupcake Day. There were three kinds of cupcake – hazelnut (iced with Nutella and garnished with whole hazelnuts), lemon (topped with cream cheese icing and Hello Kittie lollies) and chocolate chip cookie (topped with crumbled up cookies [&helli…
It’s my birthday today! :) I made cupcakes last night which I’ll bring in to work today for morning tea with my workmates. I iced them with chocolate butter cream icing and decorated them with an assortment of chopped Flake chocolate, Maltesers and Smarties. Hmmmm, which one do I prefer? Maltesers… …or Flake? I got [……
I forgot to tell you about Savannah’s party birthday cake. It was made by her other grandmother (not the one who made the crunchy noodle salad), who is a very talented cake maker/decorator. I should’ve taken a photo of the complete assembly of fairies (there must’ve been ten or so fairies, arranged in a ring […]