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I'm here, I'm here, I'm so sorry! What a naughty blogger I have been!

The Launch!

Well the launch was a huge success! I have had a lot of interest and orders come from it and it was just nice to meet new people and get a true feel for what people thought of my Cupkates.

The absolute star of the afternoon was my Chocolate Salted Caramel flavour. EVERYONE came up to me and told me how much they loved it and that's not an exaggeration :o) I had such a lovely time and I really appreciate everyone who came and taste tested for me.

I will have some photo's to share with you ASAP, promise!

I do however have some birthday Cupkates photos to share.

These where made for my friend Joanne, who's Mum contacted me and ordered some surprise cuppies. They where vanilla with vanilla American buttercream. I was able to use my new gerbera cutters and i love how they turned out.

Last piece of business - Daffodil day! If you are in the Cairns area hop down to the Red Beret Hotel and enjoy a coffee and Cupkate for $5 whilst also supporting the cancer council. There will be chocolate Salted Caramel, Lemon, Sticky Date and a new flavour Malteser.

Happy caking,

1st Birthday's

1st birthday cuppies for a little girl, Samantha.

Cupcaktes signature rose swirl ;o)

All vanilla cupcakes with half vanilla and half raspberry buttercream.

And 1st birthday cuppies for our lovely little neighbour Aiden.

Vanilla cupcakes with chocolate fudge buttercream.

I will be enjoying a lovely break next week with no cuppies to be baked! But plenty of fondant toppers to be handcrafted for a busy few weeks to follow.

Happy Caking,

Happy Birthday My Mr Roo!

I can't believe my Spencey-roo is now 2 years old! He absolutely adores Toy Story and I wanted to attempt to ganache and cover a cake so this is what I came up with.

The cutting cake is chocolate mud with layers of chocolate ganache...so moist and delish! And the cupcakes are Vanilla Cake with Vanilla butterecram. The toppers are Woody's hats and boots and Buzz's spaceship.

Spencer was so excited about his "story" cake and that's all I needed to make me happy! He had an absolutely fantastic time at his party and was very spoilt with his beautiful presents.

Today I made some first birthday cupcakes I will post them tomorrow...Happy Caking everyone,

Will eating brains make you smarter?

I hope so...

Oh dear I have neglected my poor little blog...

Anyway I’m here now!

Now I’m not fond of celebrating Halloween, it’s not my kinda thing but with all this cool spooky stuff around there has been lot’s of craft project available to me for FDC. So this afternoon the boys wanted to bake, and Mark had suggested I make Halloween cupcake for him to take to work on Friday. So we set to work making Vanilla cuppies with a swirl of blood (raspberry puree) and gray matter buttercream.

I don’t wanna toot my own horn but they rock! One of the best vanilla cuppies I have made, I have been experimenting with recipes to try and get the perfect vanilla and I *think* I’m pretty close. Spence was following me around saying CAKE! CAKE! CAKE!

Also in exciting news I am finally the proud owner of 2 cupcake couriers! I can now safely carry 72 cupcake without fear, it’s so frustrating working for hours to perfect your cupcakes only to have them destroyed in transport!!! I have one pink and one blue.

11 weeks till I hit Sydney and Planet Cake BABY!!

I shall be back probably on Tuesday as I am making Melbourne Cup Cuppies, will be working all weekend on my fondant decorations.

CYA then and happy caking!

Happy Birthday to Moi!

Well it really is the season for Birthdays, after all September is 9 months from Christmas! So anyway on Monday I turned 26...I think, isn't it terrible when you can't remember how old you are. It's not like when you’re a kid and you know exactly how many days, weeks, months till your next birthday.

Was I excited about presents? well yes everybody loves presents and I got some lovely beads for my Pandora bracelet and a gift voucher for a facial. Oh and a handbag butler, I had wanted one of these after seeing them on Not Quite Nigella's Blog! Was excited about going out for dinner and having my favourite, RIBS!? Well yes of course BUT I was super dooper excited about making my Birthday cupcakes!

Sad I know but it's true! I had bought some stunning cupcake papers that where a purple/pink with gold and the colour inspired me to make some raspberry cupcakes. I love raspberry, the real raspberry taste not the fake one. So I got some frozen raspberries (we never get fresh up here in North QLD and if we do it's $15 a punnet) defrosted them in the microwave and pushed them through a sieve to make a lovely red puree. I made vanilla bean cupcakes using a wonderful recipe I had found on Sweet Treats Blog and swirled a teaspoon of the puree in before cooking.

You can see a little bit of the raspberry swirl on the side of this cupcake, also if you look closely you can see glitter (edible of course!).

I had heaps of Italian Buttercream leftover from the wedding in the freezer so I defrosted it and re-whipped it in Kitty (my KitchenAid) while pouring in the rest of the puree. It went a beautiful shade of pink and tasted divine. It wasn't overly sweet and had a lovely tang to it.

And because I’m extra mad, after looking after 4 kids all day I decided I needed to make sugar flowers too! I had got some beautiful gold lustre dust and glitter I wanted to try out and it looked fantastic.

So anyway enjoy! And I will be adding some of my favourite recipes as soon as I can.

Kate