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Cupcake Tower with Vintage Flowers

A giant tiered cupcake tower is a crowd pleasing choice at a wedding breakfast and you can see why when it looks as appealing as this, standing tall and smelling delicious, adorned with fresh flowers and vintage accessories. The array of tempting flavours ready and waiting to melt the heart and fill the tummies of [...]

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Red velvet cake in all it’s seductiveness, a derivative of devils food cake, a cake so rich and delicious that it seems to some to be slightly sinful. Red food colouring gives the red velvet it’s luscious and irresistible appeal and topped off with a sharp flavoured and bright white contrasting topping it will never fail [...]

Nice day for a Winter Wedding

It’s early December and we are having the most bizarre weather which, for my happy couple today, was just what they had hoped for. A midsummers day couldn’t have yielded such a perfect set of conditions for a wedding and where better to enjoy the bright sunlight than the fabulous Italian Villa at Compton Acres. [...]

A Sequence of Inevitable Events

Where once stood a tower, a veritable Tower of Power. Reduced to rubble in a few simple steps! As soon as my back was turned, the Bride and Groom took it upon themselves to cut the cake. Should have seen that coming. With hindsight, those long, loving looks were obviously not just for each other. [...]

Cupcakes on the Pier

You can not argue with the cupcake, so don’t even try! It is always perfect and always petty as a picture, tall and statuesque, holding centre stage. This 9 tiered beauty was set up and ready for action at Key West at the end of the Pier last weekend. 120 cupcakes, five flavours, assorted toppings, [...]

Chewton Glen Wedding Cupcake Tower

The beautiful Chewton Glen Hotel in the New Forest played host to Rachel and Simon on their wedding day recently. Everything was perfect for their small intimate wedding ceremony and the sun even shone so they were able to spend time on the terrace in the sunshine, nipping back indoors only  to do the honours [...]

Glorious Wedding Cupcake Tower

“Now, that’s what I call a cupcake tower” uttered a lovely chap at the Captains Club yesterday as I finished setting up Katie and Simons ten tiers of cupcake splendidness. Compliments like this fuel me up when times are busy and I need the feedback to fire up my cookers and keep me baking on [...]