Christmas cupcakes galore.

Yesterday was the day of my first big christmas cupcake order - for the staff at Moorside Primary School in Lancaster as a christmas gift from one of the lovely teachers there :-)

26 cupcakes.  So I spent Sunday evening making the toppings out of sugarpaste - snowflakes, christmas trees & holly.  I had a lovely time colouring the icing & using edible glue to stick the baubles on the little christmas trees.

Then yesterday I made the 2 batches of cakes & then started on the icing.  Then disaster struck!!  I thought I could smell marzipan whilst I was making the buttercream icing, and instead of putting in vanilla extract, I realised I had put in almond essence.  Oops!  A quick trip to Booths to buy the vanilla, and a new batch of icing was made.  Just in time to box up the cupcakes, tie a blue ribbon around the box & stick the 'cupcake heaven' logo on it!  I was really pleased with the end result & hope the teachers have enjoyed them too.