Happy birthday, Olgie
Yesterday Olgie turned the ripe old age of 30.
I figured a significant birthday deserves significant gifting – so I gave Olgie a set of 4 cupcakes HANDMADE BY MOI:
Lucky for Dan and me, there were some duds left over, which of course we had to eat. To save the world from the horror of bad cupcakes.
Do it for (your) boobs!
So October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and on Monday it’s Pink Ribbon Day.
This weekend I’m off for a girlie weekend where we’ll celebrate Pink Ribbon Day. To bribe everyone, I’ve spent the week preparing my signature cupcakes, and finally finished them just now:
I made the ribbons over the course of Tuesday (coloured the fondahhhhnt in the morning before work and shaped them when I got home that night), made the cupcakes last night and made the icing tonight to finish off the whole shebang.
I was debating leaving the buttercream icing uncoloured, but decided to go with some pink. Overdid it with the Wilton pink icing colouring, but as if there’s such a thing as too much pink!
No doubt Barbara, Kay, Leigh and Naomi will have their sugar fix well and truly sorted by tomorrow afternoon…
Got booty
Yes, I know it’s bootie in this context, shaddup :o)
I keep telling myself that when I get time I’ll have a go at modelling with fondant (or “fondahhhnt”, for those to want to pronounce it properly) and finally got inspired enough to get my act together when I saw Not Quite Nigella make it look easy.
So to mark the start of my week-long break from work, I gave it a whirl.
I made about half a dozen before my attention span waned. Already I know what I’ll do differently next time, but am pretty chuffed with myself for at least pulling my finger out and giving it a go.
Major props to my Wilton icing colour pots, awesome job with the blue colouring, although I now have some lovely patches of azure on my fingers :o)
Cupcakes!
So after finally getting the right tip to pipe cupcakes the way I imagine them, I gave myself another go at another batch tonight.
These cupcakes will go to work tomorrow – themed in the WYD08 colours to celebrate surviving the ordeal.
The cats decided they couldn’t help themselves (again) by breaking through my well-prepared barriers and nomming 2 cupcakes off the counter while they were cooling (again). I decided to play their game and iced their 2 cupcakes and left them in their bowls to nom. All they really did was lick the icing off. But I feel like the winner in any case.
AND! I finally remembered to try out one of the cupcake trees I was given for my 30th last month. Didn’t think much of them, but after putting these babies on the mini-tree, I’ve changed my mind.
Awesomest cupcakes
You should have tasted these cupcakes I made last night and took to work this morning.
Delicious doesn’t even begin to describe them.
They were only plain, with coloured buttercream icing and silver cachous on top. I ate 3 last night and 3 more today.There’s one left for Dan and I’m wishing I didn’t have TAFE tonight so I could make another batch.
Promise to show you the photographic evidence when I remember to grab the pics from work.
