21st Cupcake Fit For a King!

Hey everyone!

How are we all doing? 

I understand that I have been a bit quiet recently and yes I do need to post more and I also know that some of the post that will be new today, are actually in fact old - as far as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter go. But if you head on over to Sprinkle, Sparkle and Magic Life there is an update on why I've been so quiet recently. 

But for now, lets take a look at this GIANT cupcake! I do love making them, they're just so fun and wonderful to create!!

I apologise for the photo's I understand that they aren't very good, but believe it or not, this is from my phone and the phone has a better camera than my actual camera...if that just made any sense? 

The above photo is a little 'plaque' that was made, small dint's we're placed around the side to make it have a different effect and look, I was going for a gold coin look. It then was sprayed with silver Shimmer spray and then I carefully painted on the lettering and number :) With vodka and gel colours. 

Close up of that smooth, velvety buttercream! 

The cake was Victoria sponge with raspberry jam and vanilla buttercream in the centre, vanilla buttercream was also swirled on top too! 

Crispy M&M's we're added inside the cake as a surprise and then topped around the cake to give off the effect of sprinkles! The base of the cake was solid blue candy melts with added white chocolate. With the cake placed inside it!

The lettering that you can see on the above photo and the one all the way at the top was a lovely mint green coloured sugarpaste and was made using Windsor's Clikstix's. Which took me some time to get used to at first, but I have sussed out the magic trick now! 

I also made a mini Desperado's beer bottle as asked by the customer. Had carved, then sprayed with gold and silver shimmer spray. and hand painted label! I am so proud and happy on how it turned out. I haven't got a clearer picture I am afraid but will try and find one! 

All in all, what can I say? I just LOVE making the giant cupcakes, they are so fun to create and you can go all out on them! Even though they are still the range in some aspects, they never seem to bore me or fail to make me amazed! 

Speak to you all soon, more blog posts to come!!

Three Tiered Victoria Monster Cake

Evening everyone!

How are we all doing? 

Bit of an old cake I'm afraid, by old I just mean that I forgot to post it!

The cake is just like the Chocolate Monster Cake which you can see here! But it's Victoria Sponge..Go on, click the link, you know you want too ;)

But it's Victoria Sponge!

Don't look! There's a baby picture of me in the background! *Covers screen with hand* Anyway, I'll crack on with it shall I? 

The above cake, was again three tiers, with vanilla buttercream and strawberry jam sandwiching the sponges together. Crumb coated then covered in smooth Vanilla buttercream. 

Green, white and lilac meringue kisses we're made and placed on top and around the base of the cake (I thought this added more 'WOW' factor to it, don't you think?"

Milk, dark and white chocolate shards, covered in pretty pearlescent sugar balls and then sprayed with silver shimmer spray. I have christened this chocolate bark, Galaxy Bark!

The cake then had the chosen sweets (By my granddad for my granddad) Which we're the classic, Bassett All-sorts! 

I LOVE making these Katherine Sabbath inspired cakes! They're just so fun to make and you can never go over the top or do too little, they always look elegant and crazy which is just amazing and so fun! They're so creative! Give it a go yourself and go mad!

We also made some cupcakes for the special occasion! Fluffy Vanilla sponge, smooth Vanilla buttercream, complete with Silver and Gold shimmer '80' toppers!

I enjoy making these cakes so much and I enjoy working with buttercream even more, it makes such a great finish and they just look beautiful!

If YOU wish to make this cake, stay tuned and the recipe will be up soon! 

Much love as always, 

Three Tiered Chocolate Monster Cake (Katherine Sabbath Inspired)

Hey everyone!

Would you just look at that Monster?! 

I had such a blast making this cake! It is inspired by the wonderful and talented Katherine Sabbath and her own cakes, which are just out of this wold! Take a look below!

ALL CORYRIGHT FOR THE ABOVE PICTURE IS KATHERINE SABBATH, I DO NOT OWN THIS PICTURE OR THE CAKE DESIGN.

Isn't it just beautiful? Look at all those colours, though this is a cheesecake not a cake, but its still brilliantly impressive! I cannot find her online through a website to link to or on Facebook, but she is on Instagram so go search for @Katherine_Sabbath and give her a follow!

So this was my cake, and the first of taking on the inspiration for doing a Kat inspired cake! I loved designing and making this cake, it was such fun and was completed in 48 hours which I was very surprised with if I'm honest!

The cake itself is a three tiered sponge cake, with two layers of chocolate and one layer of coffee cake which is in the middle of the two chocolates. The sponge was then all sandwiched together using coffee buttercream and then crumb coated in the same buttercream. 

The cake was then covered in Coffee buttercream, and chocolate bark shards we're placed on top as well as white and blue meringue kisses, chunks of golden crunchie bar was also sprinkled over the top of the cake. A full on chocolate and coffee overload! 

Here's a close up of the Chocolate Bark before it went onto the cake! White, milk and dark chocolate with crushed crunchie pieces and crushed meringue kisses sprinkled on top! Such a golden effect! It reminded me a bit of gold nuggets hehe 

Side view of the cake, with the meringue kisses, chocolate crunchy and the chocolate shards! 

And there we have it! That's the big monster of a chocolate cake haha

Think this photo is my favourite out of all of them. Big thanks to my younger brother for taking some fab pics of the cake! 

Much love and baking wishes! 

Paris Themed Birthday Cake

Evening everyone! 

How are we all doing? 

I've just finished going through all the posts, seeing as half of them had photo's missing! Can you believe it, no? Me neither!

Anyway, I don't have many more updates to give you all, well, I do but I will do them all in a batch post. You will all soon see!  For now I will grant you the access to view some of the last cakes that I have recently done, there are three but will all be posted in separate posts (They need their glory! Haha) 

And here we have it! The two tiered, Paris themed birthday cake. I really did enjoy making this cake so much and for once I wasn't really stressful, Hoozah! It was great and so fun!

Now to the specifics: The bottom layer was a Funfetti cake with vanilla buttercream and raspberry jam sandwiched together, the top tier is chocolate cake sandwiched together with chocolate buttercream. 

The bottom layer was then covered in white sugar paste and the top in mint green. Emerald stripes of sugarpaste we're placed around the bottom tier, whilst emerald polka dots we're placed around the top tier. 

Using modelling paste, I created one large pink rose to sit on top, and four little white roses to be placed on top of the bottom tier. I made silhouettes out of black sugarpaste and placed them inbetween the emerald stripes. Making the black stand out more on the white background. 

Last but not least, there's an Eiffel Tower stuck on top, constructed out of Rice cripsies and covered with many layers of white chocolate and then green. We then placed black and white ribbon around the base of each cake to make it look even more pretty, and pinned them in with a pearl coloured bobby bin (Don't worry, it was brand new, not used for anything else and sterilized first) 

I really enjoyed making this cake, especially the silhouettes, I just love them!  I really liked how it looked and everything. It was a surprise for the customer as her partner had bought her tickets to go away to Paris for the weekend and surprised her with her birthday cake! How wicked is that! Very happy to be a part of it. 

Much love, 

Sprinkle, Sparkle & Magic

Happy Valentine's Day! ❤ ❤ ❤

❤ Happy Valentine's Day everyone!! ❤

How're you lovely lot doing today? I hope you're all doing well? 

We're not doing much over here at Sprinkle, Sparkle and Magic, Sam and I have decided to get each other cards and that's about it haha, but we're happy doing our own thing. Him on guitar and me updating all the lovely sites, I'm going one day at a time, that's 

how I've decided to tackle it! 

Here are the little Valentine's Day treats that we're made :) Chocolate shortbread cookies sandwiched together with Banana milkshake flavoured buttercream, then rolled in pink love heart sugar sweets. So Cute and yummy! They're based around the chocolate foam banana sweets!

We also made this loaf of Poppy-seed bread, I decided to score it this time and I'm so that that I did and I feel it looks so much better! Tasted lovely toasted with a lovely slab of butter melting away on top! Yummy! :P 

Sadly, I forgot to take a pic of the bread after I took it out of the pan (and before Sam got his hands on it!) But I'm very happy with it.  

Hope you all have a great Valentine's Day and if not, just remember we're always here for you too take a peek into our world and we will always be here, waiting with open arms haha. I will do some more updates later on today of older posts! 

Much love! - Sprinkle, Sparkle and Magic 

KitKat and M&M's Chocolate cake

Hi all, 

You may feel like I start to spam you in a moment, and well...That's because I am! And I plan too! This is because, as I have stated in my last post, that once I make a cake or I bake anything I end up posting it on Facebook. Quite frequently actually because I have a lovely little page there, which you can all access if you wish to have a nosey at it. 

But back to the subject, yeah...I post everything on Facebook so I'm trying to update this wonderful blog, spruce it up a bit, fill it with posts and make it look more homey. A bit more homey like my book review page. ( Which is you're ever interested in having a look then please go to: Tinks Books and Reviews

Anyway! Back to what I was saying. The above cake was just a little something I made with the things we had in the house at the time. I did see this design on facebook in honesty over just a page that I had liked and really wanted to make it!

It's a normal homemade chocolate cake with homemade chocolate frosting in the middle and around the cake. I then snapped some kit-kat's up and placed them around the cake, and then covered the top in plain chocolate M&M's. Very chocolaty I must say! 

I enjoyed making this cake and I loved the colour of what the M&M's made the cake look like as it make it look more cheerful and fun! Though it was a little messy to eat as all the M&M's kept falling off! Haha, but it was fun non the less!

I must say, thank you for people looking at my page recently! I've seen a big jump in the sights over the page and I am over the moon! Thank you ever so much! :D Please feel free to comment on any of the cakes, about what you like about them and what you don't like about them and if I can improve on anything. I would like to hear your comments about them, good and bad! 

Much love, 
Emma xxx 

Snooker Table Cake

Afternoon all! 

Sorry I haven't been in touch recently, I've been posting on my Facebook page, which I must add that I do use more. But I am determined to update this more frequently, just like I do with Facebook. If anyone is interested in taking a look by the way or would like to give me a like, then please search on Facebook for Sprinkle, Sparkle and Magic and you should find me. Thanks! 

Anyway! The above cake is one that I did a while ago to be honest but I never got round to updating the blog. As you can see it's a Snooker Table cake, woo! :D 

I mad this for my Granddad who has a fascination with snooker at the moment. I am very proud to say that he enjoyed it and loved it also :) Was really fun creating this cake and I loved doing all the detail on it as well, all the way down to the little chalk cube and the snooker balls. 

The cake was a simple homemade Victoria Sponge cake with strawberry jam and buttercream and a plain cake, no Vanilla. Everything else is made out of fondant icing which I coloured myself with food colouring. 

The snooker balls we're made out of fondant icing then rolled and stuck onto the cake with writing icing. 

I really enjoyed making this cake and glad that my Granddad was pleased with it also :) 

Thanks, Emma xx 

55th Wedding Anniversary Cake

Hi everyone, long time no see, or speak should I say? 

I have quite a few cakes to put on here, which should of been on here sooner, but I have recently got a new job, in hopes to save for my cake business and driving lessons haha, but all is going well. So I am a tad busy, but don't let that put you of ever ordering a cake if you need one, I will still be able to make it for you! 

The Cake

Now, this cake was very special to make, and I loved every minute of baking and decorating it, I love making all of them. But this was very special. 

It was made for my Nanan and Granddad's 55th Wedding anniversary, and I loved every minute of making it. 

I know the pattern of the flowers around the cake don't flow well as the packet I bought ended up to have a dud white one, but I'll get it right next time. My Nan has Alzheimer's which is very upsetting and sad though the cake cheered my granddad up who  was very touched by it, which was lovely in a way. 

My nan doesn't eat much anymore, but she does like to eat homemade Victoria sponge cakes, which is good so I make them for her so she has something to eat (Though granddad does like to have his share!) 

The cake is 12" and double layered with smooth strawberry jam in the middle and homemade butter cream icing in the middle. There's fondant icing on the top and the "55th" is also fondant, which was if I'm honest, the numbers we're printed out and I placed them onto some fondant and cut round the paper with a sharp knife. I'm quite proud on how they turned out. 

I then sprayed them with edible silver shimmer spray to give it a shiny touch. The cake board has icing rolled out on top and there is a emerald green ribbon around the base of the cake and a pale blue ribbon around the cake board to give it a nice colourful band and to add a bit of colour to the cake. 

The writing is done using writing icing and I admit it isn't that great, but they we're happy with it.  

Hope you like it, any questions or feedback on it if you can give me any would be great! :) 

- Emma x

Ball Dress Cake

Hi there, me again! 

So I should of posted this a while a go, but just couldn't find the time what with College, family and seeing the other half. But here I am :) 

I designed this cake by hand, and drew it all out first so I could get an understanding of it. I went with my imagination in this one, and didn't copy anything. It was my first attempt at a dress cake and I think I did quite okay, granted there are bits and pieces that needed more TLC than others and I just need to practise that more. But hey! I got paid for it, so I'm not complaining, haha. 

The cake was designed for a family member, my aunt. Who had recently taken up ball room dancing, I thought it would be a nice surprise for her to have something she liked instead of going to the store and buying one that may not have tickled her fancy, or she may have possibly had that cake the year before. But never the less, she loved it! And I am so happy she did, it nearly all fell apart at one point, but it didn't! 

This cake is a Victoria sponge, with light spreadable strawberry jam and some whisked double cream instead of the plain old butter cream. It worked out wonderful, the cream went nicely and it tasted lovely, or so what I have heard. It took a grand total of 2 hours to bake, I think and about 6 - 7 hours to decorate.

I also did the design by tracing it out on paper first, then placing it on the cake and sticking cocktail stick in it so it wouldn't move. Then cut round it with a bread knife. So not that bad for timing I don't think. 

I really enjoyed doing this cake and hope to make it again soon, and loved doing the frills on the bottom, granted I also need more work on them, but hey! There's a first for everything. I loved doing the decoration and the ribbon also, was a nice way to end it I think. I may not look the best but I am so proud of it :) 

Hope you enjoyed looking at it too! - If you ever wish to have a cake like this or something similar, let me know!

Cheers, 

Em xx

HH Amplifier Cake

Hey, 

So I did this cake a while ago now and it was my first attempt at a cake like this. Well, when I mean like this I mean in that design and as in actually going that far in decorating. Rather than just throwing on a bit of icing and words as usual. And I am happy to say and quite proud, that I think it came out and looks wonderful! 

The cake is supposed to be in the design of a HH Musicians Amplifier, which my other half of me always plays. Along with his guitars, he's a little obsessed ;) 

Had to copy it from the actual amp and photo's of it. Was all sketched out by hand first, then we worked around the edits of the photo's and drawings. 

(Below is what it is based on)

But he loved it ever so much and so did his family, took a while to make, though I had an extra hand, seeing it was his cake and he wanted to help me out (Probably just in case I didn't spell something right haha!) No, he helped and we had a blast, was so happy! Didn't want anyone to eat it. 

The cake was a double  layer one, with Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge frosting in the middle, the top part where the mesh section would be where the speakers are, is done also with Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge Frosting. The lettering done by writing icing, and knobs are done with Fondant icing, then sprayed edible silver.

Took a more than a few hours to make and decorate all together but it was worth it. Really enjoyed both the baking side and the decorating side and hope to do that design again soon. If you ever do wish for an HH cake or any other type of amplifier cake such as Marshall etc. Just let me know and will be happy to do it :) 

(PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS CAKE HAS BEEN DESIGNED BY HAND, AND MOST CAKES WILL BE. UNLESS I HAVE AN ACTUAL DESIGN AT HAND. OTHERWISE ALL WILL BE DRAWN FREE HAND. THANK YOU!)

Made: 24th - 25th November 2012