Birthday time again – and my turn to make cakes for the Friday cake meeting at work. I decided to use up one of the small Christmas cakes that I had left over from Christmas (still well preserved in a mixture of sloe gin / cherry brandy / plum liqueur!) and make a couple of complementary cakes. As there is a coeliac amongst my colleagues, I made the very delicious gluten-free carrot, coconut and pistachio cake that I last made in October again.
Cupcakes are generally seen as one of my specialities and
I hadn’t made any for a while, so I decided that I would make some lemon cupcakes, filled with passion fruit curd (as I had some in the fridge!) and
topped with lemon buttercream.
Given the never-ending rain that we have all had
recently, I was inspired by some rainbow-themed cupcakes that I had seen on
Pinterest. When it came to decorating the cakes, I tried just smoothing the
buttercream on with a pallet knife but my pallet knife skills are not the best
and it looked a bit scruffy to me. I decided to go with my ever-reliable Wilton 2D nozzle and pipe roses. The clouds
were piped with a small round nozzle. The rainbows themselves were fizzy multi-coloured
belt sweets – cut in half and then stuck down into the clouds.
