Everything's coming up roses

Congratulations to Fabric HQ who celebrated their third birthday last week.  To wish them happy birthday, I made this lovely bouquet of flowers for the Sewcial last night.

To make the bouquet, roses - in white or graduated pink tones of buttercream - were piped on vanilla cupcakes using a 2D nozzle.  The roses were then attached to a foam ball (not as easy as it might look! but fortunately I had a fantastic teacher - the lovely Natalie from Faircake, London), creating a pretty ombre effect to the arrangement. 

Beautiful to look at, the roses have a gorgeous vanilla scent and are delicious to eat.  I think a cupcake bouquet makes the perfect birthday present.  Happy birthday Fabric HQ and wishing you many more.

Anyone for chocolate cake?

It was the Sewcial again last night.  The first one in the new Fabric HQ shop and Make HQ studio.  After all their cutting, stitching and sewing, the ladies deserved a treat.

And here it is.  Decadent chocolate cupcakes (yum) smothered in dark chocolate ganache (yum, yum) and topped with a chocolate flavoured fondant flower (yum, yum, YUM).

Let them eat cake...

Cakes and sewing just seem to go together, well, to my mind anyway.  Rae and Jacqui from Fabric HQ very kindly let me make some cakes for the Sewcial last night.

Here's what was on offer.  Lovely marshmallow flowers in gorgeous colours of yellow, pink and green.   They are rather a labour of love but very tasty.

And these pretty little floral creations that were deemed almost (almost!) too beautiful to eat.  Not that that saved them in the end, the scent of vanilla being too much to resist.