Happy Halloween my lovely ones!!

Halloween has finally arrived and so had the day of my first order :D

I stuck to my original plan and made vanilla cupcakes, chocolate cupcakes and pumpkin cupcakes.

I'm soooo happy to have had the opportunity to make these and actually get some money out of it. But the smile they put on people's faces while eating them is still the best feeling ever!

I will post the recipes next week. For now some photos for your indulgence!

Top: Vanilla batter, Bottom: Chocolate batter

Pumpkin Cupcakes with vanilla/lemon Cream Cheese Frosting. Decoration : Orange food colouring and Black sugar bats.

Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. Decoration: Black food colouring (which makes your teeth and tongue go black) and white sugar ghosts.

Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting. Decoration : (Not enough) green food colouring and sugar pumpkins.

The black food colouring worked quite well. It's more like a paste and I had to add quite a lot of it even though the buttercream was already brown (coz of the choc(: ).At first it looked more silvery/grey but after a while it turned pretty dark. These Chocolate Cupcakes are actually the same recipe as the first cupcake I got for my birthday some years back (see The Story Behind The Blog).
The lady owning that shop wrote a book full of recipes :)

And I actually wanted the green of the vanilla frosting to be even more green. However, I didn't have any food colouring left. But they look quite cute :)

Final product all packed and ready to be picked up. The boxes are great even though depending on the size of the cupcakes it can be kinda hard to put them in/ take them out again.
But I already ordered some other ones which I will show as soon as they'll get here.
I also ordered some more decoration for christmas as I will make some christmassy ones for a christmas market at the end of november..

but I will keep you posted about any sugary sweet news :D

Halloween decoration arrived!!

On monday the ordered candy halloween decorations arrived!!! I am so excited!

I got them from the UK and they are gorgeous!

straight to the photos I would say! see what I got:

Cupcake cases in orange and brown. I wanted to get black but they were out of stock. But brown will work as well

"Pumpkins and bats" sprinkles!!

extra black food colouring for the frosting

Candy pumpkins and candy ghosts.

I just need to make the cupcakes now. I will post some pictures of the end result:D

Family reunion cupcakes...

The past weekend has been a busy one. Even though I only made 3 batches of cupcakes I had a few time management problems :)

I planned on doing cupcakes for our family reunion on sunday so I had to do them on saturday. Friday would have been a little too early. well so I worked on saturday and during my 3 hour break I made the cakes. On sunday morning I made the frostings and finished the cupcakes which took up more time than I expected.

I never realized how much time it takes to make the frostings and pipe them on  as I always made the whole cakes at once.

So we ended up being a little late:) but the cakes turned out well.

I made double choc cupcakes, orange cupcakes and coconut malibu cupcakes with mango.

The orange cupcakes were wonderful, so were the malibu coconut ones. I think I might have taken out the choc ones a minute too early. but they still tasted nice.

well, onto some photos!!

and action!

 Almost finished

Ready to go

left : orange cupcakes with orange frosting, right: Malibu coconut cupcakes with mango surprise

Halloween is coming up!!

As Halloween is coming up in two weeks I received my first order ever! I have made loads of cupcakes so far but just for friends and family.


However, today a new chapter of my cupcake life began. I get the opportunity to make some Halloween cupcakes for a friend's party. I can choose the flavours myself. I haven't decided yet what I will do but I think of doing double choc, vanilla and spiced pumpkin.
I also just ordered some decorations as I haven't really moved on to making my own decoration from scratch (which I really want to try as soon as I have enough time on my hands).


I also ordered some boxes to be able to provide safe transportation. I just really hope that it will all arrive in time. So as soon as I get all the things I will let you know and of course I will post some pictures of the halloween cupcakes :D


I will also be doing some cupcakes for our family reunion next weekend.


So next post should be up by the end of the week.


but for now: enjoy the rest of your week!!