More baking – this time a purple and white swirled rosette cake for the mother of one of my best friends who is celebrating a birthday this weekend. Can you believe this is my first purple cake? It’s travelling to Okaihau today so I hope it has a safe trip!
Been baking. These are vegan cupcakes with cream cheese flavoured duotone buttercream roses. I know, cream cheese and buttercream do not sound vegan. Did you know professional buttercream is made from vegetable shortening? It keeps better*. Thank goodness – doing a cake decorating course without sampling the frosting would have been rather difficult. These babies will …
Almond Rose Cupcakes It’s incredible what people can do with a piping bag and some frosting. After I worked out the “petal cupcakes” style of “rose” (it’s super easy), I was up for a more realistic looking version. I also blame days of beng sick, sitting on the couch watching too much food TV. YouTube …