My Birthday Cake

Thanks to mum and dad for my birthday dinner!!!!! And, these delicicous birthday cakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pav and steam pudding. The dinner was yummy and the dessert inspiring!?!? Here's hoping I give my idea for a new cupcake flavour a go!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was spoiled by my family!!! Fritz bought me an awesome new mixer and a pretty pink camera!!!!!!!!! Thanks baby you are the best!!!!

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I am so excited!!!!!!!

I am so excited about two cupcake things I found/was told about yesterday!!!!!!!!!!

SPCA are having a cupcake competition!!!!!!!!!!!! I really wanna enter and fundraise at the same time!! I will keep you all posted on how you can help me!!!! There are threee competitions. Most creative cupcake. Extreme cupcake eating and most money raised. Ok, most money raised may be a lil hard but the other two will be fun!!

CUPCAKE CAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I so wanna organise this!! Might be a huge challenge but loads of fun at the same time!!!!! Not sure if I can pull it off but I am totally thinking about it. Thought incorporating these two SPCA and Cupcake Camp would be a fantastic idea!! What do you think? Anyone wanna put their hand up to help? hahahaha

Please let me know what you think!

Cupcake Pops

These are so cute!!!!!! Thanks to a very talented Bakerella for this fantastic creation!!!! She is so clever for coming up with these lil cuties!! This was my first attempt, well Bianca and I made them, so our first attempt. I cannot wait to try again and make them even cuter!!! All the colour and flavours, what combo shall I try next?? Thanks Bakerella!!!!!!!!

Commercial

Ok, so these are what they ordered for the commercial. Homemade looking chocolate cakes. Fingers crossed they make it on TV!!! Would be so cool, can't wait!!!!!!!!

The cake is a TV star lol. It is on a Vodafone commercial!!!! All you see is the side of the cake, don't blink or you will miss my cake!! The guy blows the candles out with a fire extinguisher. YAY

Wilton Course 1 Day 4

My final cake at Millys Wilton Course 1 . A rose and confetti cake. Yay, got my certificate.

Passionfruit Cupcakes

I have been wanting to try some passionfruit cupcakes for a long time!!!! So FINALLY tonight after making a bacon and egg pie for dinner (and a special pie for Tyra-Jade) I made some!!!!!! I really liked them, the cake was really light and the flavour was just right!!! The cream cheese frosting was scrummy.

The final day on the lil Wilton course is on Thursday. We have to decide on what we want to do with our cakes and complete them in class ready for photos!!!! This course was quite interesting and I learnt a lil bit. Visit on Thursday to see the final result!!

My Cupcake Apron

How cute is this!?!?!? I was about to buy a polka dot apron at Millys yesterday but thought I would have one more look around!! Whew....I found this at K Mart. So not only is it super cute but it was also cheap at $19.95. The oven mitt and double glove were of course seperate, wasn't looking for these but how could I not get them!! And I also bought more cupcake tea towels. I do wish the apron was in pink but you can't have your cupcake and eat it too.........or can you?

Wiltons Course 1 Day 3

Day 3 of the Wilton Course 1 we learnt how to make roses. Quite a hard decoration to do!!!! What do you think? Can you tell they are roses? They are slightly overwhelming on top of a cute cupcake but smaller roses would be gorgeous!!!!!

We also learnt how to make lil faces, another border, some star and drop flowers. And this cute clown!! I can just picture the kids faces if they saw these on a party table!!!! The icing would be gone and we would find all the half eaten cupcakes.

I can't wait for next week when we complete a beautiful cake with all we have learnt. Hmmmmmm, maybe not all. Not sure that a clown sitting next to a pretty rose would look too good...........at least the kids AND adults that get to eat it would be happy though!?!?

Don't forget if you want to order some yummy cupcakes you can go to www.nzcupcakeprincess.com or email at crystal@nzcupcakeprincess.com

Wilton Course 1 Day 2

Look what we have learnt so far on the course!! So much fun. This is my cake I finished after class. Fritz's mum received this for her birthday!! The cake was chocolate and was decorated with vanilla buttercream.

Payton loves cake

When decorating a cake I trim the top mountain off. Sometimes I throw it out but this one was saved by Payton. Look at his eyes!!!!!!! He decorated the cake with loads of colourful icing!!!!! Yum yum

Mothers Day

Mothers Day was lovely! Hope all the mums were spoilt and relaxed all day. I was spoilt!!! Started off with breakfast in bed and ended with a dinner out with my family. Fritz and the kids got me heaps of Cupcake jewellery, Wii Fit and Snowboarding! And I got my cupcake pj's (yep more)!!!!!!!!!! It was a beautiful day, probably the best one yet!!!

I was up late (or should I say early as I went to bed about 2am) doing cupcakes for Mothers Day. They were enjoyed by all who received them.

My Cupcake Pajamas!!!!!!!!

How exciting is this!!! I went tonight to BNT and got my pajamas!!!! Couldn't wait to get them on. They didn't have my size in the long pants :( but, these are just as cute!!!! (can you see my tea towel!!! No one is allowed to use these to dry dishes!!!!!) Now, I need some cupcake slippers to finish off my bedtime outfit!

And the winner is.....

Cupcake Princess. Fritz. No I didn't pick it because Fritz entered it!! lol Good thing for me is that because it is Fritz he ain't getting the prize lol, as if he would let me off!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you to everyone that entered. View my new website at www.nzcupcakeprincess.com

I will still have this blog going for family and friends, the other site is more me hoping to get a business going!!

Some entrants will be receiving a little something for effort!!!!!!!

Have I decided on a winner yet?

This is the most common question I am getting at the moment. This and two others, how did the duathlon go and how is your body feeling, lol.

Well, the duathlon was amazing!!!! I felt great after completing it, crossing the finish line was huge!!!!!! I am so addicted to the amazing feeling of achievement I get after completing a duathlon. I recommend doing at least one in your lifetime!!! Trust me, as you cross the finish line you will thank me. I cannot wait to do another! Looking at some runs as well. Fritz has league and touch I have duathlons!!!!!!!!

My body........is fine today! My back is sore but that was the case before the duathlon. However, I am not looking forward to tomorrow! First time round it was the Tuesday that the pain really came. I can't believe that my legs are fine today though. Although I felt way better during the duathlon this time. I must've been better, cut almost 5 min off my time. From 1.20.39 to 1.15.49 wow, with no training. Wonder how much I can cut off with a lil training!?!? Will have to wait and see.

Finally, yes I have made a decision on the name!! I would like to thank EVERYONE who entered!!! I really appreciate the time you all took to enter my competition. It was so much fun reading all the submissions! There were so many great ideas and it was really really hard to decide.

Unfortunately, you will have to come back later tonight to find out the winner. SORRY lol

Cupcake Pajamas!!!!!!!!!

Oh my goodness BNT (Bras n Things) are selling cupcake pajamas!!!!!! The Sugar Cake range is super cute!!!!!!!!! I want the whole range, 3 sets lol. They are SUPER CUTE!!!!!! Check them out at www.bnt.co.nz Hoping this hint reaches my lovely Fritzy baby!! wink wink

Competition

Hello cupcakes,

thanks to everyone that has entered my competition so far!!!!!! Alot of great ideas have been submitted. There are still 9 days left before the competition ends so keep on posting your ideas! Don't forget there are 12 delicious cupcakes up for grabs.

Ciao for now

Cupcakes made with love

Rich chocolate cupcake with dark chocolate ganache make these cupcakes divine. Simply topped off with a white chocolate heart.

Perky Nana cupcakes

Perky Nana cupcakes. Woah, why didn't I try these earlier?!!?!? While at the supermarket the other day looking for some toffees I grabbed a whole lot of different chocolates. Yummy!! Payton loved them and I lost count at how many he ate. Some had gold cachous, Pebbles, mini M&M's and Perky Nana.

Chocolate Mud cupcake

Supposed to make white chocolate mud but didn't have white chocolate, oops. These are just as good!!! Dark chocolate mud cupcake coated with dark chocolate ganache and a chocolate button.

More Valentines cupcakes - order

More Valentines cupcakes, these are very simple as requested. Ordered for a husband and boyfriend for Valentines. Chocolate cupcake with vanilla buttercream frosting. Edible glitter and heart shaped sprinkles decorated these simply delicious cupcakes.

I love you cupcakes - order

Chocolate cupcakes with dark chocolate ganache cupcakes were ordered for someone 'just because'. The hearts on top were made with chocolate. I was told that not all the cupcakes made it back to her husband (I delivered them to her at work), it's the thought that counts!!

Wedding cupcakes - order

These cupcakes were ordered for a small wedding. The two flavours chocolate and vanilla. Chocolate cupcakes were iced with milk chocolate ganache, came out quite light in colour. Vanilla cupcakes had white chocolate ganache. The hearts were made with love from chocolate.

Birthday cakes

This light, fluffy, moist two tier vanilla cake was made for Fritz's Grandma. I was going through a flower period. Really trying to get my flowers perfected. This vanilla cake was iced with vanilla frosting and the flowers were made with vanilla buttercream. Gel was used for the writing and flower centres.

My nana ordered this for her friend Linda's birthday. I made a two tier chocolate cake with ganache in the centre and covering the cake. The white flowers are made with vanilla buttercream and pink cachous. White chocolate was used for the writing.

Valentines cupcakes and cookies - order

An old colleague ordered these for Valentines this year. All she wanted was Valentines themed cupcakes. So this is what I came up with. My children love making biscuits so we put the two together! Chocolate cupcakes with milk chocolate ganache with cute hearts sprinkles and heart shaped biscuits on top.

Baby shower cupcakes

These are the pretty Wilton pedestals. You can turn them over and use them as an icecream cone holder as well!!!

My sister was having a baby shower so of course cupcakes were required. We did not know what she was having so pink and blue were the colours of the day. The cupcakes were light and fluffy vanilla with pink and blue vanilla buttercream. Pretty edible glitter and cachous were sprinked on top to complete these cute cupcakes. A pic of Stacey and Curtis' little princess, Ally.