Busiest week yet!

Hello cupcakers!

It has been an extremely busy week so I thought I'd share with you some of my latest orders and the biggest challenges I've faced yet as a home baker and they all happened in the same week - typical!

On Saturday 6th of August I had a wedding order to fulfil for Hanh and Alex who were having their wedding reception at the beautiful St Michael's Manor in St Albans. They had a cupcake tower of vanilla and lemon cupcakes topped with rose swirls and individual handmade roses. Their top tier cake was made by a family member and finished off their tower beautifully.

Here are a few snaps of the finished product.

I really loved the colours of these and the wrappers in particular - they are very popular wedding wrappers!

My next wedding and my biggest challenge yet was on Thursday 11th August, again at the lovely St Michael's Manor and was for Binanti and Darren. Now, originally Binanti asked if I could do her cupcake favours and of course I was very happy to, but she was having trouble finding someone to do her wedding cake. It seemed there weren't many cakers willing to make a piped rose swirl cake! So I said that I would have a go at doing her a sample cake and she could decide if it was what she wanted. I made it very clear that I've never done that sort of thing before but she was desperate! I made her the sample cake ( a vanilla pound cake with vanilla buttercream) and the happy couple were thrilled with it, I'm pleased to say. So she put her faith in me and I'm pleased to say all the hard work paid off....

Thank you to Binanti and Darren for having faith in me! And I'm very glad you weren't disappointed. Now amongst these wedding orders, I was also planning my sister's 30th Birthday Cake (a 3 tiered wonky cake, getting ready for my Saturday market in the St Albans town hall (sold out again!) AND fulfilling all my other regular orders for birthdays/anniversaries/cravings! So as you can see, I didn't get much time to rest (which is great for business, but not so great for my M.E.) luckily I have had the day off today...well sort of, I still have a sample box to make later and have been answering emails/sorting photos all day but in comparison to last week - it's a day off.

I will leave you with a collage of some of last week's orders. The rest have been uploaded onto my Facebook page . Also want to say a very quick thank you to everyone who has been so supportive to me and my business. You guys are fab so thank you :D

June Update

I can't believe how busy I have been recently. It's just got manic and I haven't had time to sit and blog. But it's great :)

In May I attended the University of Hertfordshire Careers Fair and provided the cupcakes for the networking event. It was a lot of fun and it was great to be back at University again and see what they've done with the new Forum building (the Students Union).

I made over 100 cupcakes for the event and they disappeared in less than 10 minutes!! So a definite success :)

Then last weekend was the St Albans Arts & Crafts Fair in the town Hall and I did a tea party theme where I tried out a new Earl Grey flavour and I must say it was extremely yummy!! It may be my new favourite.


I also had a busy weekend of orders and some really fun themes to tackle. And next weekend is filling up fast too!

Happy Cupcaking!

First Post of 2011

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a lovely break over the Christmas holidays. I just wanted to say a quick thank you to everyone who has supported me over the last 6 months. 2010 was a tough year personally but it was also a very good year because I think I found my calling - baking and making beautiful little pieces of edible art. It is amazing how quickly my little one woman company has grown and I am very excited about what is to come in 2011 because I know it's going to be fab!

And for my first order of 2011 I got a very fun brief, it was for a 30th birthday and featured the birthday boy's favourite things: James Bond, Port & Stilton, Tennis and Guiness! All are hand made and hand painted.

I wish you all a very happy, healthy 2011; may it be filled with joy and cupcakes, lots of cupcakes!