Strawberry and Rum

As I keep saying, I love Strawberries! I made these little treats a while back, using some left over rum and strawberries. I cooked the strawberries in rum and dipped them into the middle of the cupcakes before putting them in the oven, so that the cupcakes would have a lovely center. I also made a strawberry puree which I squirted on top of some cream cheese frosting.

The result was Fab! Rum makes the strawberries taste ever so yummy :)

Nothing says Thank you like cake..

Over the summer, I took over my mums best friends company whilst she soaked up the sun for two weeks in Dubai, and oh my, it was the most stressful two weeks of my life, but who knew being a boss was so fun!

In a bid to say thank you for such an amazing experience, I thought I would say thank you with some cupcakes. I bought some duck eggs and I thought I would experiment by using it in a cake... and it was AMAZING, so moist and lovely and rich!

The previous evening I stayed up until the early hours of the morning, making these pretty little roses out of some fondant, I was enjoying it so much that I just kept making more an more!

Some of them need a bit of work but the more you make them, the better you get and better they come out.

Using the duck eggs I made some red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, and topped them with these cute little roses and this was the outcome...

I bought little cupcake wrappers which added an extra little bit a beauty to these cakes. She absolutely loved them, and keeps telling me to start a cake shop, haha if only!!

Strawberry and Chocolate...Heaven

What better in the summer than a punnet of fresh sweet strawberries? I love strawberries, they are by far my favourite fruit, I eat them all the time, with cereal, on toast (A must try!) and just with anything I can. So I made these little beauties in a bid to make some summery and British cupcakes.

I made plain vanilla sponge cakes, cut them in half, filled them with whipped cream and jam and topped them with a strawberry, I melted some chocolate and drizzled the tops of the cakes with the chocolate. I enjoyed them over a cup of tea and a chinwag with the best friend, what a perfect afternoon.

However this was not enough for me, I can honestly say I went a tad bit chocolate crazy. I had some left over chocolate sponge from some brownies that I made a couple of days before hand, and so I decided to make some cake pops dipped in chocolate. Sometimes I really do despise making cake pops, they are so difficult to dip perfectly! So my secret.... just cover the uneven surface with more chocolate!!

My First Cupcake Display

So I thought I would start adding a few pictures of my previous cakes, as I thought there was no point in starting a story half way so I'm starting it from the beginning.
I started making standard and average cupcakes for fun with plain sponge and butter cream, and the most adventurous ones were just pistachio and rose. Once I started baking, my family would not stop requesting me to make them cakes! So when my cousin was getting married, I seized the opportunity to make him a little present. Being a Hindu, we have ALOT of celebratory days and evenings leading up to the wedding night, and I chose to make these cupcakes for him.

I made Mocha cupcakes, Apple and cinnamon, with an apple pie filling, and coconut and creams cheese cupcakes with a liquid chocolate center. It was a lot more stressful making in bulk than I anticipated -I was awake until 3am but it was so so fun!