Girly baby shower

Here's a little something I did recently for a girly baby shower :)

Girly pram cookies

Birdie cookies - these have got to be my most popular requests, they come in all sorts of colours!

Ruffle cake with hand-stamped & hand-written placard in edible ink.

 

These are actually buttercups (regular-sized cupcakes), 

for which I've tried a slight variation for the petal blooms

Don't forget, I'll be teaching BUTTERCREAM TECHNIQUES at Thread Den next Tuesday (9th October - click here for details) and MAKE YOUR OWN FONDANT OWL the following Tuesday (16th October). Classes include tips, handouts and a Kit of your own to take home with you!! What are you waiting for? ;)

Feature

Ooh! So excited that we got another little mention in the latest SHOP 4 Kids magazine!

 And the lovely little write-up they had for me in the directory section...

Speaking of which, some exciting news! Those owls that you see featured? While I've written the tutorial to show you how to make your own owls, I've also been invited by Thread Den to teach them as part of the cupcake decorating classes they're running.

I'll be teaching two classes - one on buttercream techniques, and one on fondant. They're pretty hands-on and fun, and suit beginners, so come along and we'll have a ball! Dan, from Thread Den, will be listing the details shortly, but they'll be held over 2 evenings in October.

Also, I'll be hanging out with the kiddies this school holidays - yes we're having a Kids cupcake decorating class - and TEA PARTY! Suitable for kids 6 years and older, you can drop them off for an hour, wander around the lovely Brunswick St., then  pop back again to join us for delicious little cupcakes your kids have decorated with love. A lot of love. ;-)


Details can be found here:
http://www.threadden.com/_pages/kids_class_description/cake001.html

Well, then! Here's what I've been up to lately:

Happy New Year!

Here's a look at what I've been up to til the end of 2011...

 

 

Another cupcake tower with a brown and cream theme...

 

The wedding was held in the Yarra Valley...just gorgeous!!

And of course there was all the Christmas baking...

 

Chrissy cake pops!

Made some cookies for our friends - 

gingerbread and dark chocolate!

And what's a party without a Christmas log?

This one's an oldie but a goodie - chocolate ripple cake!

With summer berries and a lil' dusting of cocoa to bring some yuletide cheer!

Another dessert I've been wanting to try out, the Brownie-cheesecake trifle, 

or what I call "Your Daily Calorie Intake in a Cup"

It features layers of:

Triple-chocolate brownies

Cheesecake mix

Summer berries

Whipped cream

Oreo cookies

It's based on this one from Lauren's Kitchen

The last year has been an amazing journey, an amazing start! Looking forward to the new one ahead. Happy 2012 everyone!!

 

PS. Buttercup Bakeshoppe will be taking a well-deserved break (VACAAYYYYTION HERE I COME!!!) until late February. But I'll be posting up my food adventures abroad here, so stay tuned. And I've got some exciting news for March to announce too!

'Tis the Season Part 1

Well then!

With Christmas only SIX weeks away, we're starting to take orders for our Christmas products!

First up: PERSONALISED Gingerbread cookies!

 

These come in Gingerbread, Chocolate-cinnamon and Chocolate-ginger spice.

Vegan and Gluten-free options available (for extra).

These make great gifts for your loved ones and friends, colleagues, kris kringles, the boss whom you hope will grant you a year-end bonus...

And they can be posted interstate or overseas as well!

Packs of Christmas-themed cookies (star, snowflake, Christmas tree, candy-canes) available too.

Email me at bake@buttercup-bakeshoppe.com for orders and enquiries!

Hope & Glory

Some pics of what we've been up to in the last couple of weeks...

Orange buttercake with chocolate swiss meringue buttercream

Wasn't for a specific occasion, just a special treat for the family.

And boy it just melted in your mouth!!

 

Made these recently for Pink Ribbon Day.

 Raised quite a bit for the McGrath Foundation! :)

 

Here're a couple others in the Typography series...

And the highlight of my week...seeing Buttercup Bakeshoppe in print!!

Our little cheeky chick features in the latest (Summer 2011) issue of SHOP 4 Kids!

Woohoo!
(If you must know, it's chocolate-cinnamon with royal icing. Yums!)

Seeya this Sunday at the North Melbourne market, where we'll have some lovely surprises, including a new citrusy Orange & Lemon cupcake! Summer bliss!

Caking

It's been awhile since my last post - a whole month! - so let's get right into it!

August and September has been a whirlwind of activity, taking classes, baking, markets, the lot!

Here's a cake I made for my friends' wedding, based on their wedding invite. It's a dummy cake, which they used at the guestbook table, and it's covered in peach fondant, with black fondant rolls.

(Tip: click on an image, and all the other images will form a gallery so it's easier to view!)

All the lacework's hand-piped with black royal icing.

The wedding invite

The guest-book table. Gorgeous isn't it?!

 

I also made some kids' cupcakes for the children's dessert table, along the lines of her theme colours:

 Kids' dessert table

The kids' dessert table had all these wonderful food packs with their names, and lollies in jars, even showbags to take home! Funny thing was, a couple of grown-ups nicked some of the kids' cupcakes to eat!

June Market

Had yet another fun market day with Peek! Sweets on Sunday at the North Melbourne market, as well as Pleasure, Little Treasure, and the darling Odd One Out.

One of the great things that have come up from doing these markets are the friendships I've made that have been slowly growing over the last couple months. These market girls are such a riot, and it really makes the time speed past when you're oohing and aahing over each other's wares, or cracking jokes. Such a fun bunch!

Anyhoos, here're a couple pictures from the market...enjoy!

My Vintage Vanilla cupcakes - how pretty and ladylike are they?!

 Gorgeous Anne from Pleasure, Little Treasure showing off my Missy Mao Mao apron.

 Our little setup - 'twas rather squishy since we had a smaller table this time

 SO...we've got: 

Cake pops (red velvet, chocolate fudge, peanut)

Babycups

Buttercups

Apple bikkies

Gingerbread people

Buttercups 

(red velvet, vintage vanilla & vintage chocolate, carrot cake)

  Babycups! 

(chocolate, vanilla, peanut butter, cookies n' cream)

 Apple bikkies with an attitude.

(I infused apple tisane and cinnamon into the batter and icing - YUMMO!)

 We also sold babycup samplers, which really takes the guesswork out of choosing :)

 Peek-a-licious! Don't you just love those rainbow colours?!

A very satisfied customer

Don't forget, our next market's on July 10, at the Southside Handmade and Vintage Market,

Urban Hotel 35-37 Fitzroy St., St Kilda. See you there!