Field of trees

Baked some thank you star cupcakes for Hilda recently after she kindly offered us their very quaint cottage in Wellington, besides a river bank, for an evening.  Their little weekend getaway and a plot for her to plant many varieties of indigenous trees.  A little big dream that has come true.  We should all have dreams about planting trees...

 We felt like Hansel & Gretel in a magical miniature forest.

Rainbow party: food & drinks

rainbow  cupcakes

rainbow lemonade

rainbow jelly

brollie cookies

I love these photos!  Ariana and Erin's mom, Catherine took them.  Please go check her out here.    Everything looks so dreamy. And professional! And yummy...


I am pretty chuffed: I made the sprinkles for the cupcakes myself.. 
And to get the blue jelly for the rainbow jelly, I used plain gelatin and coloured it blue.  Gelatin is quite stinky...  I don't know about the rest of the world.. but there is no such thing as blue jelly in africa.


Add to this list:  packets of popcorn, hotdogs & rainbow fruit kebabs..

and champagne. For us folks.  And some quiche, carrot cake, baked cheese cake and a berry vanilla cake. 

also check out rainbow party:

birthday cake

activities & party favours

invite & decorations

for the school bake sale...

cross stitch hearts

vanillla cupcakes with royal icing

chocolate cupcakes & raspberries

Necklace for my cupcake

Made some vanilla and chocolate cupcakes for little Louise's 2nd birthday today.

Happy cupcakes to start my day.

baby shower cupcakes

I have had these sweet bib and baby grow cookie cutters for quite a while now, yet never seemed to find the time to give them a little test run.  Today we fiddled and came up with these.  Hope you like them.

tinkering tuesday: flower brooches = flower cupcakes

It's amazing what one can do with a bit of felt and a glue gun.  I think the glue gun and staple gun are 2 of the most underrated pieces of equipment.  We should be taught at school the joys, and the things we can conjure with these two toys at hand!  SO i made some brooches, pins, clips and hairbands from a tutuorial which i found at craftiness is not optional via pintrest. And then i did a quick test on some cupcakes, and it worked perfectly... thinking white ones would be gorgeous for a wedding... though they are a little finickity, but so worth it.  These are regular vanilla cupcakes, smothered in white chocolate ganache, and then flowered with fondant icing.

christmassy cupcakes

milkshake cupcakes

i just love this stripy paper straws!

today we made... tiny little flags

little baby flags to decorate your cupcakes, handmade by us.

make me pretty..

We had a little cupcake decorating competition stand at the church bazaar last saturday.  The kids were great (they even braved a bit of rain) and came up with the most fun and pretty cupcakes.  Third prize went to Jordan, second to Holly and our winner was Christopher!  Congratulations to all the kids that took part, they made my day with their beautiful creations and excitement.

espresso cookie cupcakes

chocolate espresso cake | espresso buttercream | chocolate espresso cookie crumbles

Espresso for my love

espresso chocolate buttercream cupcakes

these are for my martin... chocolate espresso cupcake, topped with mouthfuls of espresso butter cream, and if that's not enough to get you going, a little espresso brittle...

honey & cinnamon vanilla cupcakes

the cupcake cake....

the deluxe cupcake, comes in all colours and flavours... and a surprise in the centre!

Toy story cake for Daniel

Spring blossoms

i just love "i am baker"  and when i saw the tutorial on making these little icing blossoms, i had to give it a try!  please go check out all her gorgeous cake and cookies...

Sweetie cupcake

love cupcakes x