Blogmas day 5:)

For my birthday party this year, I decided not to have a massive party, but instead to have a few friends over for a cupcake decorating session and then a sleepover. A lady from a nearby cake company came round and we were given a lesson on cupcake decorating. It was genuinely such a great thing to do, especially with friends or relatives.

I think we half expected to be really rubbish because we had little prior experience and we were really surprised at how good they looked in the end. I don't mean to blow my own trumpet but I feel I did a lot better than I thought that I would. I couldn't eat any of my cupcakes because I'd been diagnosed with a suspected lactose intolerance a few days before which wasn't ideal but it's something that after a few weeks I've gotten used to.

So we each made 6 cupcakes and these are mine, which were presented in a white box with a clear top, so you could see the cupcakes as a quick glance.

On the top left is a rainbow flower-like design, with a copper/gold middle. The reason I decided to do this design was because Hannah was not going to use the leaves she made and I thought they looked really cute. Also, I loved the piping underneath, and this pattern lets you see it.

So there was a burnt orange leaf, a yellow, a light blue, a navy blue, a purple and a cherry red leaf. It has gold balls in the middle and underneath is a zig zag buttercream pattern, which I basically just made up but it looked pretty cute!
This next one is probably one of my favourites, just because of its simplicity and yet it is very dainty. This one entailed a rose style piping technique, where you start piping with a star nozzle in the middle and then work your way out. I then made some dark green leaves and stuck those in the side, using a little edible glue but it would stick perfectly fine without to be quite honest.

Inside this one I decided to put a few silver balls, which I regret now because it looked a lot better without in my opinion. The leaves dropped a little which I thought was a bad thing but now I like it because they look more realistic and a little more rustic.

This is a domed cupcake (I don't know if they are called domed cupcakes but it is domed with icing) and on it there is a quilted effect pattern with copper and white balls. I really like this one because of how effective it turned out to be.  

Underneath here was a squeeze of buttercream, and the dome shape was already semi done. We rolled out a thick piece of icing in a colour of choice and imprinted a pattern on it. Then we cut out a circle using a cutter. Then, we placed this on what was like half a ball shaped sponge. I like how cute this looked!
This is a bow style domed cupcake. So as above we made a dome and then we made a bow. Mine is a little shabby but I was proud of it for my first attempt.

I made the bow with white icing, to provide a contrast between the harsh black. I also liked the copper balls on the centre of the bow, it was like a cherry on top :)

The next one I was so proud of. So as you can see it is yet another flower (I promise there wasn't a theme) this time one with elongated petals. So there are 3 sizes, which I placed on top of each other and stuck them using a little edible glue. Underneath again was Mr Whippy style buttercream piping.

For the centre of the flower I used 3 small silver balls stuck down with edible glue. This may have been the trickiest decoration to make because the flower was very delicate, and I had a few petal disasters, but in the end I'm genuinely quite proud of the finished product.
And last, but most certainly not least is this orange sunshine ruffle cupcake. This is my most favourite cupcake, just because it was very diverse and I generally just liked the overall look of it.

To ruffle the icing, you just use a star shaped nozzle and basically wiggle it over your cupcake. I added some cute little orange icing pieces and some silver balls.


I'm so sorry that I already failed Blogmas, I'll try and make it up to you with an extra post soon.

Have a great weekend and I'll see you soon for a new post:)














Just going to leave some pictures of the other girls boxes, as they're all amazing and they are so talented!

Morgan<3

H;)

Hannah:)