These are vanilla cupcakes with blue vanilla butter icing and glitter, showing off their deliciousness in pirate themed cupcake wrappers and sporting little paper pirate flags! They went to school with Bronwen’s son!

Debbie ordered these cupcakes for her daughter’s 21^st birthday party.

The vanilla cupcakes were accented with cerise cupcake collars, topped with two-tone pink and white vanilla butter icing and decorated with little multi-coloured sugarpaste orchids.

Karin ordered a selection of cupcakes and a cake for a baby shower that was held at Cafe Blu in Fourways.

chocolate cake filled and covered with chocolate ganache, decorated with white and pastel coloured sugarpaste

vanilla cupcakes decorated with my trademark “soft serve” butter icing

chocolate and vanilla marble cupcakes iced in pink and white vanilla butter icing and decorated with pink sugarpaste butterflies and polka dot cupcake wrappers

creme brulee cupcakes

These are so pretty!

The vanilla cupcakes are filled and topped with custard buttercream, and decorated with a dusted gold fondant flower. The chocolate cupcakes are topped with chocolate butter icing, and also decorated with a dusted gold fondant flower.

They were then placed into black and white damask wrapper (collar).

Elanie celebrated her 21^st birthday this weekend with a double party! Elanie’s mom arranged the cupcake order with me in the weeks prior to the parties, to match the theme and Elanie’s taste.

On Saturday night she had a bash with her friends with a classy silver and white theme. For this party I made mouth watering vanilla cupcakes in silver paper cups with a variety of secret centres- fudge, creme caramels, coconut ice, malted biscuit balls and a berry nougat. I topped them with my delectable white vanilla butter icing and a little glitter, a black fondant flower with a white centre, and a silver fondant “21″ mounted upright on a white fondant disc. I added some small silver dragees for some extra sparkle.

And for the first time, I made a cake for a customer! I have always baked my son’s birthday cakes, but I’ve never done one for someone else. This one is a vanilla sponge cake with a caramel filling and white vanilla butter icing covering it. I decorated with with the same black flowers as I used on the cupcakes and put Elanie’s name on top of the cake in silver fondant lettering mounted on white fondant.

On Sunday, Elanie celebrated with her family. The green and purple colour scheme was very striking, and after chatting to Elanie’s mom I mounted a green and purple “21″ on green and purple fondant discs to stand upright on the cupcakes. Daleen, Elanie’s mom, asked for a multi-coloured flower garden using fondant daisies on top of alternating green and purple vanilla butter icing and provided the green and purple polkadot cupcake collars. These little beauties were also vanilla cupcakes with several different secret centres.

Happy birthday Elanie! I hope your celebratory weekend was all you hoped it would be!