April Flowers

I love Springtime, for all the obvious reasons; warmer weather, flowers start to come out, lighter evenings. I particularly like April, such a pretty sounding month but it also happens to be my birthday towards the end of the month, any day now infact. The above cakes have not been made as a special sweet treat to myself celebrating 30 (something!) years on the planet, but were an order for a marketing agency in London. Raspberry and vanilla cupcakes with a Spring theme. Can brighten up any day!

Sesame Treat!

I was sent this image about a year ago and it remains to be, without doubt, the most creative cupcake ever made! Not only is it a very cool idea but perfectly executed. I still don't know exactly who made it but it certainly deserves another blog entry. I'd like to see an Elmo too.

Can't Say No to Chocolate

It's Easter weekend, and for me that means two things; Springtime and chocolate. I'm not a particularly religious person and so I associate the long weekend with warm, sunny weather, bunnies hopping around and lots of chocolate eggs. Of course the British weather cannot be relied upon and so the sun has not been out much (and I haven't seen any bunnies) but there is always chocolate guaranteed. Although VCK predominantly offers vanilla cupcakes, you can't say no to chocolate. I found some cute coloured chicks in Paperchase and so made a big batch of moist chocolate cupcakes, some topped with coloured buttericing to match my little chicks, and the rest with a rich chocolate buttercream. With so many ways to decorate cupcakes for Spring, watch this space....