Garden Party Cupcakes

At the beginning of June I had the great pleasure of making Charlotte and Warren's wedding cake. At the weekend Charlotte's parents held a garden party for neighbours who couldn't be present at the wedding and they asked me to make cupcakes to be served to their guests. We decided to keep the same flavour cupcakes (vanilla cupcakes with raspberry filling and vanilla frosting and chocolate cupcakes with cherry filling and white chocolate frosting) and the same designs, just adding a splash of colour with the green leaves and green calyx's to keep with the garden party feel! Lovely! Many thanks again to Charlotte's Mum and Dad!

Charlotte and Warren's Elegant Cupcakes and Summery Cookies

Last Friday Charlotte and Warren were married at the beautiful Mellington Hall in Powys. Charlotte's lovely parent's collected the cupcakes and cookies on the Thursday to take to the hotel so I'm afraid I do not have photographs of the cakes set up in situ but I did take some of my own photographs before they were collected.

Charlotte and Warren planned their wedding with a romantic, summer garden feel in mind. They wanted a cupcake cake which exuded informal elegance and sophisticated romance. After their tasting Charlotte and Warren chose cupcakes in two different flavours: vanilla cupcakes filled with fresh seedless raspberry compote and frosted with vanilla buttercream frosting and Belgian chocolate cupcakes filled with fresh cherry compote and topped with white chocolate buttercream. The vanilla cupcakes were decorated with three tiny hand moulded sugar buds and the chocolate cupcakes loose, romantic hand moulded sugar roses and leaves. The top tier was a chocolate fruit cake decorated with loose, hand moulded sugar roses and leaves and piped with tiny white royal icing dots, tied with two different types of white organza ribbon and finished with a diamante and pearl button:

Charlotte also asked me to make summery daisy cookies, which were served to the guests on platters with a glass of bubbly after the ceremony. We made three different sized cookies in three flavours: vanilla, zesty lemon and zesty orange, the cookies were then hand piped with yellow, lemon and white royal icing and decorated with a little bit of sparkle:

Charlotte also asked me to make special vanilla cookies for the littlest guests Toby and Olly:

Thank you to Charlotte and her mother for being so lovely and making the design process such fun! Wishing Charlotte and Warren every happiness for their future lives together!

Sarena and Jason's Wedding Cake

Sarena and Jason were married at the beautiful Llangoed Hall a week last Sunday. The couple knew that they wanted a cupcake wedding cake from the outset. The motif of diamonds ran throughout thier wedding day with little gems featured on the wedding stationery. We decided to keep the wedding cake to shades of white and silver for an elegant sophisticated look which would highlight the touches of sparkle we added to the cake in the form of the pretty brooch at the centre of the top tier cake and the edible glitter we used on the sugar rose cupcakes. To carry the diamond theme through we scattered varying sized gems on the table and in between some of the cakes on the stand.

Sarena and Jason opted for a mix of 'british' style cupcakes (vanilla and lemon in flavour) and 'American' style cupcakes (sumptuous chocolate, coffee and cream and chocolate orange in flavour). The top tier cutting cake was a chocolate orange cake.