I bought this new tappit set at The Cake Show in Birmingham. They are made by FMM and makes funky letters and numbers. They are a bit larger than the other alphabet tappit sets (about 1,5″ high). Use them on your cake or just put a single letter or number on your cupcakes and cookies.

When I use the tappit sets I like to roll out my rolled fondant thinly and let it dry slightly. Thats makes it more easy for me to get the fondant out of the tappit set. It always looks good when you paint it with edible lustre dust or blossom tints.

Happy Caking

Louise

This is the latest addition to my cupcake book collection and I must say it is one of the best. The author, Jennifer Graham, is the founder and owner of The Crabapple Cupcake Bakery in Melbourne, Australia.

The layout of this book is beautiful with lots of photos that will tickle your taste buds to immediately go out into your kitchen and try some of the delicious cupcake recipes that you will find in this book. It has great contents where Jennifer Graham gives you nice tips on ingredients, how to decorate and what kind of tools that are important when baking cakes and cupcakes.

There are 32 different cupcake recipes in the book and 5 lovely cakes to make as well. After the cake section you will find the tasty section with the delicious frostings and fillings. The book finish off with pages of suppliers through out Australia.

I have now tried the vanilla and the chocolate cupcakes from the book. The vanilla was really nice and moist but I found the chocolate very loose and crumbly. It was much better the next day. I wanted to try the buttercream frosting but that was just too sweet for my taste. I think with small adjustments this frosting could be very good. Even though the frosting was a bit sweet for my taste I am still keen to try out more of the recipes in this book

You can buy the book here:
The Crabapple Bakery Cupcake Cookbook UK
The Crabapple Bakery Cupcake Cookbook US

Happy Caking

Louise

Thursday the 8th of november went I on a five day trip to Birmingham UK to see the Cake Craft & Decorating Show with some of my danish cake friends. But there was also time for regular shopping!!
I always like to see if I can find cake things in the shops and I must say this year was my luck. Not only have I found myself a new collecting: mugs decorated with cakes and cupcakes.

I searched every department stores for mugs and I found whole four different mugs!! So now I have five “cake mugs” to my tea and coffe. But I also found lots of other cake things like a super cute pink cake stand and some sweet cake ornaments. I will post about those later.

Saturday and sunday was most of the time spend at the NEC. The cake show is amazing there is lots of stalls with all sorts of equipment, colours, cake tins, cake boards and loads more. There is workshops and demonstrations and then there is the competition classes with lots of beautiful crafted cakes and figurines.

I was so lucky to meet Lorraine Mckay aka aine2. she won gold for a great novelty cake and silver for single figurine entry of a sweet girl. I also meet Kathryn aka KiwiCakes on flickr at the show. Some of my cake friends from Finland and Sweden were there too. It was really nice to meet so many cake people. I can not show you photos from inside of the show due to restrictions sorry!

But on the photo you can see some of the nice stuff I was able to buy there: paste colours, lustre dusts, books, cutters, embossers, cookie cutters.

Do I need to tell that I came home with a very heavy suitcase??

Happy Caking

Louise

It was my intention to post these cookies last week but there was some problems with blogger and after a short “cake” holiday in the UK (more about that later) I think it is time to make that delayed post.

These cookies are made with my latest new cookie cutters and they are all covered with rolled fondant in sweet delicate pastel colours. I made the teapots and teacups in a madhatter tea party style with swirled handles, dots and mixing colours.

The butter -and dragonflies turned out really great with the two colour fondant. I have used my favourite modelling tool the dresden/veining tool on the wings and brushed some edible lustre dust on the wings to give them some sparkle.

I also made some simple hearts and some cute bon-bons. You can see those and some of my “old” cookies in my cake gallery.

Happy Caking

Louise

Oh my god!! Two of my cupcake photos have been featured in a nationwide danish newspaper called Berlingske Tidende with reference to my blog. The article was about the cupcake. Cupcakes are not well known in Denmark, compared to fx. UK and US, but the newspaper descripes it as a new trend. I really hope that this article will help the cupcake to get common in cafés etc. Im really proud that my pictures were chosen

Happy Caking

Louise