Post pop shop come back!

After the highs and lows of the pop up shop I've picked myself up, dusted myself down and put my pinny on!  It's been a busy old fortnight with nerves shredded I swear it's one of the scariest feeling sensing off your bakes without knowing what they're going to be like until somebody cuts into them and then you get feedback and it's like a huge weight lifts and you can breathe again!  The first to leave the 'nest' was this fun minion creation, I love it, I sometimes think the simpler the design the more effective they can be!

Next on the agenda was some pops for a christening for a little boy after discussing some designs we decided on a mixture of effects which I think work really well all together rather than them all being the same especially as they were going on display

This week was my sister in laws birthday and she asked me to do some cupcakes and pops to take into work given complete free reign on design, after much deliberation and many hours on Pinterest I decided to go design them around Cath Kidston colours and flowers.  The cupcakes themselves were a mixture of chocolate, chocolate with cherry filling, vanilla, vanilla with strawberry filling and lemon with lemon curd

Here's a close up of my favourites!!

I tried to get the pops to match but they're slightly more pastelly but very pretty!  These went down a storm apparently - even asked if I was married!!
I made extra main ones and took them round to my next door neighbours for a play date and got a lovely text saying how yummy they were!

 

Then finally we were invited round today for her birthday so it'd be rude not to take cake! I'd decided I wanted to do a surprise inside cake and initially was thinking rainbow cake but found a fab tutorial on you tube on leopard print and thought right I'm doing that, now it didn't all go to plan! I used my 5layer kit I picked up earlier this year I got a bit carried away with my piping into the tins and realised I should only have used half my black to start off so some didn't come out as actual leopard spots but the effect was there! Then piping I was searching for something else then came across this effect so gave it a go, not bad for a first attempt it was a little hot in the kitchen and the buttercream started melting a bit in the piping bag from the heat in my hand and the atmosphere so I had to work fast but I think it ended up quite pretty and would work really well as a smash cake too!