The Cupcake Lady

Dieter is the minister who is conducting our wedding ceremony in July, and at one of our get-to-know-each-other sessions I took some cupcakes along for him and his wife. They loved them, and when his birthday came up this weekend he ordered a batch for his guests.

Its a mixture of chocolate, vanilla and the coffee flavoured ones with koeksisters inside. He said I could decorate them any way I liked, so he got a real mixture, including the purple and yellow!

I experimented with one of them as well, and I LOVE the result!!!

Our new niece is being christened tomorrow, and I baked cupcakes as a gift for the lunch after the service.

They’re a mixture of chocolate with crème caramel secret-centres, vanilla and red velvet cakes in different cups. The icing is all butter icing and I experimented a bit with colours just ‘coz  could. The one that looks like red is actually 3 different colours together, and I rather like how they turned out. I’ll be experimenting with other colours too, and we all know how I love the two-tone icing! The decorations are fondant.

Don’t you love my new cupcake transportation box! I can add layers to it too- so excited!

Thassaright! The sample boxes have a new name. Thank you for all the suggestions I got- “Triple Treat” is a bit of a combination of several ideas!

These Triple Treats will be available next week- so consider this an advance warning !!

I have several ideas in mind, so I dunno yet whats going to be in them… They’ll be R50 each, so feel free to place an order via the contact form, or via email- which you can also find on the contact form

You can see examples of previous “Triple Treat” boxes by clicking here.

I heard about this here compo via Twitter, and then went looking for it!

I have been thinking about baking these particular cupcakes for ages, and the competition was the perfect occasion to test my idea. My knucklehead was kind enough to play cameraman whilst I was baking- and I don’t have any pictures of me actually baking the cupcakes- so thats different. And my fiancé photographed me with the finished cupcakes to send to Yuppiechef.

I used a red velvet recipe that I found- I’m still trying to replace the one I lost- which is divine and velvety, but not red! I iced it with pink and white two-tone butter icing to make it look like the softserve ice cream I grew up with, and then put in a flake to complete the look!!

You can see my entry and some comments on it on Yuppiechef’s website and on their Facebook page.

I’ll sell these for R20 each.

I’m going to be baking tomorrow night, and I think I’m going to do red velvet with cream cheese, something with chocolate and… aaaaaand… erm, and and and… and something else.

I dunno what yet.

There should be 3 available, so if you’d like one email me quickly: info@angelscupcakes.co.za!! They’ll be R50 each.

Update –  they’re sold out!! Thank you!!!