Drink and Cupcakes? Yes Please

Hello Curious Readers!

With the royal wedding literally DAYS away, It has got me thinking about my own wedding next year. A key aspect of any wedding is the all important cake (okay, it isn't that important unless you like cake...but I like cake so therefore it is important!). Purely for ease of use, my desire to avoid the cake cutting ceremony and just because they are fabulous with a capital F, we are having cupcakes. Cue the insane hunt for cupcake recipes ,we are obviously baking and decorating our own, it wouldn't be our wedding without the obligatory DIY.

So in my quest for the perfect cupcake, I have noticed an odd trend on Pinterest this week which is "cocktail" or "drink themed" cupcakes and I just had to jump on the bandwagon. The Boy and myself have a BBQ coming up for our birthdays and I have a feeling I may have to try out some of these recipes!

What about some yummy margarita cupcakes?

Pina Colada Cupcakes! One of my favourite drinks in cake form!

Coca Cola Cupcakes...really not sure about this. Either completely amazing or really unpleasant

Sangria Cupcakes. I love the idea of these for a gorgeous summer day, perhaps served with the drink too?

Of course we need to have Champagne Cupcakes on this list!

And finally just for my dad..... The GUINNESS CUPCAKE

If you have the recipe for any of these or feel like making them yourself, please email me to show me how it went. Send pictures and I will happily add them to the site! Also if anyone has tried Coca Cola Cupcakes then please enlighten the rest of us! Are they any good?
All thanks go to the people who supplied these images as I cannot take credit for them, towards the end of the month I will hopefully have pictures of my own culinary creations!

DIY Tutorial: Make Your Own Sugarpaste Roses

Hey Curious Readers,

In the spirit of getting this blog up and running I am going to be spending a few weeks blogging regularly (sometimes as often as several times a day), this will not be a regular event on the blog as hopefully I will get a job soon that keeps me busy but while I am not working I might as well add quality content to the site. However I will endeavorer to maintain a daily post even when I am busy.

This is the first of hopefully many DIY tutorials, this one in particular is about making sugarpaste roses for cakes/cupcakes however as the blog progresses I will add tutorials for a myriad of different things.

Firstly excuse the poor mobile phone pictures, I took them a while ago however I will attempt to replace them at a later date once I find my camera charger. I originally posted this on my page on the Offbeat Bride Tribe (for more info about Offbeat Bride see here)

I decided to teach myself how to make sugarpaste roses after realising that I wanted to make and decorate my own cupcakes for our wedding, my inspiration for out Alice In Wonderland cupcakes can be seen in the picture below:

Oooo the cupcake frosting, those whipped peaks of sugary goodness, I cannot wait till we make the trial cupcakes this summer (and trust me there will be a post on that!).

So without further ado:


HOW TO MAKE SUGARPASTE ROSES


Step One: Mould the sugarpaste (in the colour of your choice) into a conical shape. I actually made the tip of mine too think however at the end you will see a picture of one I made earlier where the appropriate thickness will be shown.

Step Two:  Take a piece of paste and roll it into a small ball. Place the ball in between two layers of cling film.

Step Three: Thin out the petal edges ( I find using your thumb works best) and remove from the cling film. Wrap the petal around the cone, surrounding the entire tip of the cone. You can see in my picture where making the tip of the cone too big can stop the petal surrounding it, see my picture and make sure yours does NOT look like that haha.

Step Four: Place Two more petals around the cone in a similar way, I personally like the place them over areas where the previous petal joins the cone (or other petals). Continue the next row with three petals, applied in the same way.

Step Five: The next row contains four petals to finish your rose.

Here are the two roses I have made so far, the one to the left  is the one shown  step by step here. The right is my "perfect" one, also known as the one I am actually happy with! The left is the one shown in this tutorial and typically, I managed to mess it up haha. You can see the difference the size of the tip of the cone can make, it made the rose a lot better, personally I prefer to daintier one.

I hope you enjoyed my first DIY Tutorial and have fun making your own yummy sugarpaste roses for cakes and cupcakes!

Pinterest Love: Picture of The Day (POTD)

Hey Curious Readers!

This is the first official post at the ungodly hour of 4:13am, what can I say, I have been working on the blog for a few hours now and I am impatient to add the first post BUT I am exhausted so I figured I would do the first of many "Picture of The Day (POTD)" posts!

For those of you unfamiliar with Pinterest, it is an amazing site for storing all your images on virtual pin boards and also finding hundreds/thousands of inspirational pictures for whatever your purpose. My main two uses for the site are my six wedding boards (ranging from wedding decor to invite inspiration) and home inspiration, the latter evolved after seeing so many DIY/ interior design ideas I LOVED and having no where to pin them, the organiser in me (who doesn't pop her head up often) had an issue with posting a picture of some stairs on a wedding board.

I am hoping to maintain this as a daily post, so even if I haven't got time for a longer one, there will always be something new or interesting to look at.
So without further ado, the first of many many POTD pictures!

These cupcakes are nothing less than superb, they are from Flutterby Cakes in Gloucestershire, UK. As someone having an Alice in Wonderland Themed Wedding, I love the idea of cupcakes illustrating the idea of "painting the roses red"! As someone who will be attempting to decorate her own wedding cupcakes, I am making it my mission to learn how this was done.

I couldn't find the contact information for Flutterby Cakes however if you google them I can guarantee contact information will appear!

So there we go, some yummy cupcakes and I am off to bed for hopefully some cupcake dreams.