Cupcakes with a secret, shhh!

Can you make a cake without using butter and eggs? Indeed you can, in fact these little beauties are totally vegan-friendly (dairy and egg free) and could even have been made wheat and gluten free as well! These wedding cupcakes were a mixture of chocolate and marmalade flavour. They were used as table centrepieces and the bride and groom decided not to tell the guests they were vegan until after they had eaten them, although I think a select few with specific dietry requirements were probably let in on the secret! I am very pleased to say that everyone was amazed that they were vegan and the guest who was allergic to eggs was thrilled to be able to eat cake!

Introducing Baby Bunting... see what I did there?!

Long time no blog post I hear you say. Well yes, sometimes life gets in the way, in a good way of course! I am now the proud owner of a four week old baby boy (as well as two two and a half year old boys, *gulp*). So there we go, absence explained by the end of a looong pregnancy- he was 12 days overdue, and more recently by having a new baby.

Archie Patrick born 15.11.11 weighing 10lb 14oz (yes, you read it right!)

The business, which I've recently pared down to focus on just cakes, although I may reintroduce other bits at a later date, will be undergoing a revamp over the next few months and this blog is a bit directionless at the moment, so any sporadic posts will probably be rambling and diary-like!

I'm making snowflakes to decorate the house today. I would say I'm doing it with the children, but that's a lie... they're watching Toy Story! So, if I get my act together, my next post will be some lovely festive photos of my house :)

A taste of summer- cream tea cupcakes

Our lovely neighbours, tasked with letting our dog out in the garden while he was alone for long days last weekend, went beyond the call of duty and walked him twice a day, so as a thank you I made them a box of cream tea cupcakes (along with a bottle of wine of course!).

Unfortunately, the oh-so-helpful two year old delivering them managed to drop the box, top down on the door mat as they opened the door!

Flowers and pearls

Having started this theme with the hen do cupcakes, I carried it on this week for a fairly last minute family cake. OK, OK, it was mostly to use up the rest of the pink and green icing, but still, Mr A's Granny liked it!

That's it for today, but it's Handmade Monday again, so remember to have a look at what everyone else has been doing!

A classy hen do?!

Is there such a thing?! Well, they can start off that way at least! This one did, with a sophisticated selection of lemon cupcakes with pretty vintage inspipred girly designs. I loved doing these- they are my favourite yet.

To see more of the individaul cakes, please visit my Facebook page, and don't forget, it's Monday, so to see what other crafties have been up to this week, take a look at Handmade Monday.

Tinkerbell Cake

Today's cake... Tinkerbell!

Pretty cupcake experiments

I'm coming to Handmade Monday a bit late this week for various reasons, but I thought I'd show you some pretty cupcake experiments I made a few days ago. I have a big fair coming up on Sunday and although I'll make much more basic cupcakes for that, I need to be able to show what I can do. Hopefully I'll get a chance to do some more this week and next Monday I hope to have a decent report on the Taunton Fair and Motor Show!

Anyway, here are the posh cupcakes!