Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Birthday Cupcakes


My sister, her husband and my gorgeous niece and nephew have been staying for the past week. While they were here, it was my sister’s birthday. In the weekend my other two sisters came up and we had a birthday picnic on Saturday. My 5 year old niece loves baking and on Saturday morning we made these cute cupcakes for my sister’s birthday. My niece is going to be a talented baker! She has immense patience for a 5 year old when baking and a steady hand when it comes to mixing, folding and even cracking open eggs (she cracked 7 eggs over the weekend for different things we baked and not one piece of shell at all).



These cupcakes are chocolate cupcakes decorated with whipped cream that we tinted pink. We sprinkled them with some pretty pink sprinkles that I bought from foodtown and then topped them with sugar roses that the lovely Lorraine from Not Quite Nigella sent me from Sydney. The purple rosebud is actually one that I made – my first attempt at a ribbon rose and I must say I was quite pleased with the outcome. I have just started course 4 of the Wilton cake decorating classes, so will be posting about my cakes in the next few weeks.



The cupcakes were delicious and the whipped cream topping was just perfect on the pretty cakes.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very pretty.Did you bake for the SPCA CC fundraiser Tammy ?

Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella said...

They look gorgeous Tammy! And I love your purple rose too-so chic! :)

SassyCassie said...

Those look delicious!

Anonymous said...

Those cupcakes look delicious. My almost 5 year old nephew loves to bake too. He's always asking me what we are baking next.

Summer Deverell said...

She did so well! But so did you - your purple rose looks great!

Cakelaw said...

These are adorable Tammy! I am a girly girl, so these strike a chord with me. Happy belated birthday to your sister.