Vanilla cupcakes with vanilla buttercream for baptism

Wow, it has been months and months since I last wrote a post for my blog! I am blaming the hot summer, the house moving, the no oven for some weeks, and morning sickness for the absence and neglect! :)


I made these cute vanilla cupcake with vanilla buttercream for a baptism this summer. The gorgeous little girl who was baptised had a pink little bunny as a detail on her white baptism clothes, so her mum wanted the cupcakes to match the clothes. I love how things come together like that.

The frosting were in three different colours, pale pink, pale yellow and white. The little pink bunnies were made of homemade sugarpaste and they had a white sprinkle as an eye. I think the whole look came together pretty well if I may say it so myself ;)

Here are some pictures taken by my Dad (playing around with his new fancy camera!)

Pink chocolate baptism cupcakes

It has been a while since the last post, I have been busy baking cupcakes for baptisms and having my family visiting from Norway.

The daughter of a good friend of mine (from Wishing Tree) was baptised almost three weeks ago and I was asked to bake cupcakes for the party afterwards. I was of course only too happy to obliged! We decided on chocolate banana cupakes to keep them nice and moist as they were to be picked up the day before the baptism and as the summer is pretty hot in Greece I went for poured fondant instead of any other type of icings which might melt and get spoilt by the heat and the sun.

Poured fondant is made of melted sugarpaste. It is really easy to make sugarpaste, but not having a microwave makes it a bit more timeconsuming to melt it, and also to keep it hot enough to be able to dip the cupcakes into the fondant. I dipped them twice to make it a nice, round and tall finish to the cupcake, so it did take quite a few hours to dip 100 cupcakes, but it was all good fun!

I had made homemade flowers for decorations made of homemade chocolate paste and a pink sugarpaste on top of it and then finishing it off with a silverball in the middle.

The invitation for the baptism was made by my friend who designs birthday invitations, baptism invitations etc, so obviously the cupakes had to be pink as well :)

I love the way these cupackes turned out, matching the chocolate base with the chocolate flower and the pink fondant with the pink flower. What do you think?

A view of the cupcakes on my kitchen table:



Cupcake on a princess plate:



A close-up:


And finally a view of the cupcake in the box:

Lavender cupcakes

It has somewhat taken me forever to continue this blog. I haven't stopped baking cupcakes though.

I am ridiculously proud of most of my cupcakes, so I think most of them deserve their own blog entry. I'll try to keep it short and sweet with some photos showing the cupcakes and my progress.


After the raving reviews of my daughter's baptism cupcakes, I tried a rather more complicated vanilla cupcake with a lavender cream filling and lime cream cheese frosting. I was inspired by Chockylit's lavender cupcakes, but the lavender cream failed spectacularly compared to the instructions, so I improvised and made my own lavender cream. I dare say it is probably better and it gives just the most perfect hint and taste of lavender, not too little and not too overpowering. Paired with the lush lime cream cheese frosting it is my most popular cupcake yet!

Here are some photos of my lavender cupcakes:



These have tiny handmade butterfly decorations made of homemade Marshmallowfondant (by that I mean that even the marshmallow was made from scratch!)



These are decorated with small crystalised violet petals, which I found on a trip to London.



These are decorated with homemade marshmallowfondant butterflies with blue sugar for a sparkly, glittery effect.



And finally the icing on the cake so to speak, lavender cupcakes with a handmade sugarpaste (homemade!) princess crown made for a little princess' birthday.

Welcome to my blog

Hello there!

This is my first attempt at this blog about cupcakes.

I have been crazy about cupcakes since March/April this year. Being Norwegian I had hardly heard about cupcakes, as our cupcakes are more akin to the British fairy cakes (a small round sponge cake with a simple icing made of icing sugar and a little bit of water). My passion and slight obsession is the American-style cupcakes. The moist sponge with a nice big dollop of cream cheese frosting or buttercream. Yes, that is what I am talking about!

I live in Greece, a country filled with baklava and syrup eating people. Cupcakes are a novelty here and very hard to come by. As a matter of fact, in the city I live in (Thessaloniki) you cannot buy one nice cupcake to eat if you feel like it. No, you have to go to one big bakery chain and order them for big events like birthday, baptism etc. And can you choose your own flavours? No! You can only have vanilla flavour with what I believe to be a not so nice icing...

The cupcakes they make did look nice in their window though, so I thought to myself. Why don't I make cupcakes myself for my daughter's baptism? And that's how my love for cupcakes started!

The very first cupcakes I tried to make were carrot cupcakes. Lovely, moist carrot cupcakes with a cream cheese frosting. I might try to dig up a picture later.

The cupcakes I made for the baptism were chocolate cupcakes with a pink buttercream topped with brown baby booties with a pink heart for decoration on each boot. I am not a great fan of the buttercream as I often find it too sweet, but as the baptism took place at the very day the Big Easter Week started in Greece any oil, real butter, eggs and milk had to be avoided. The chocolate cupcake had no eggs in them, but used some vegetable margarine and apple sauce to make them moist. The guests loved the cupcakes and I loved the positive feedback. I needed to make more!

This blog is therefore my story about my cupcake adventures. I promise to keep the coming posts shorter (if you managed to read this far, thank you!)