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.

First order!

This morning has seen me calmly baking & icing cupcakes for my first 'official' order. 

I can now breathe a sigh of relif as they have left the building and are now in the hands of the birthday boy.  I spent last night colouring the sugarpaste & creating the Man Utd red football shirts & stars for the 40th birthday party, and was up early ready to bake the 14 cakes.

Funny how, after baking so many cupcakes recently, they seemed to rise more than usual, which slightly stressed me out, but once iced they looked fine, and me & my 3 testers all said they tasted good too (I did make a few extra!).

Had to try them out on the new stand too, and I was happy with the morning's work.  Let's hope the birthday boy is too :-)

Christmas cupcake heaven creations...

Christmas orders have started to come in thick and fast (well, I have 5 orders so far, and that's very exciting!)  I'm offering a box of 12 cupcakes for £6.  Great for a christmas party, or as a way of saying 'thank-you'!

Choose from vanilla, chocolate, or a mix of both.  See pictures below for an idea of how the cakes will be decorated (these aren't mine - I've been doing my research on google images!) plus I have a lovely idea for a christmas tree cupcake :-)

Let me know if you'd like to order a box: email me at cupcakeheaven0@gmail.com

The creation of cupcake heaven

Cupcake heaven was created in November 2011 after many months of experimenting with different recipies & a cake decorating class at the local cupcake shop.

My day job is as a Librarian in a University library in Lancaster, but my spare time is spent baking & creating sugarcraft icing  & other delicious toppings with my 2 boys (who aren't actually allowed to do the icing - yet!!).

I decided I'd like to have a go at making cupcakes for special occasions, and same up with the name & set up a facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cupcake-Heaven/22947568711577

Even with the IT expertise of an 11 year old who would call himself an IT geek, we have been miffed by website design, so have settled on Blogger for now for those people not on Facebook.

Orders are coming in thick and fast, which is very exciting - lots of orders for christmas themed cupcakes, for a special birthday, a lovely little girl's first birthday, and even a summer wedding (fingers crossed).

Let me know if you'd like to place an order - orders up to the end of December 2011 will be charged at cost while I build up my portfolio, so grab yourself a chrstmas cupcake bargain.

Email me at cupcakeheaven0@gmail.com or telephone 07746 497350