{Recipe} Pimm's Cupcake

This is one of my favourite cupcake recipes ! The cake and frosting are sweet, with a hint of Pimm's and the surprise heart is fresh and fruity, what a perfect combination !

Pimm's Cupcakes

Makes 12 cupcakes

CAKES

125 g unsalted butter, soft

125g caster sugar

2 tbsp Pimm's No.1

2 eggs

125 self-raising flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

3 tbsp semi-skimmed milk

Preheat oven to 180C and line muffin tin with cases

Add the butter, caster sugar and Pimm's and cream together using an electric mixer for 7 minutes, or until light and fluffy

Add the eggs, one by one, and mix for 2 minutes

Add flour and baking powder and mix until incorporated

Add milk and mix for a further minute

Fill cases and bake for 20 minutes

Remove cupcakes from tin and leave to cool on a wire rack

FROSTING

125g unsalted butter, soft

1 tbsp Pimm's No.1

250g icing sugar, sifted

2 tbsp semi-skimmed milk

Cream the butter and Pimm's together in the mixer for 2 minutes, until light and fluffy

Add icing sugar and milk and mix for a further 2 minutes

Chill in refrigerator until ready to use

HEART

2 strawberries

5 raspberries

2 slices peeled orange

2 slices peeled cucumber

A few mint leaves

Make a fruit puree by blending fruits and mint together

TO ASSEMBLE THE CUPCAKES

Use an apple corer to remove the centre of each cupcake and fill with the fruit mixture. Pack in gently with your finger then replace the sponge core.

Top the cupcakes with the frosting and decorate with some fruits and mint leaves 

{Girls Cocktail Night} Pimm's Night

Finally the pictures of my little soiree !
I really enjoyed creating a mini dessert table for our girlie gathering. The Vintage British picnic theme allowed me to reuse some decorations (like the pretty fabric banner) from Chloe's Ice Cream party last year.
I made it a challenge with myself not to go over board in terms of time AND money and I think I pretty much achieved this. I did stick to my shopping list and only shopped for food, drinks and flowers on top of it. Everything else I already had !

My intention is to host two more girls Cocktail Nights this year, and I will reveal the next theme pretty soon... If this one was for spring, the next one should be perfect for summer :)

Enjoy the pictures and make sure to come back on Thursday and Friday for the recipes!

I took these pictures in the afternoon, the light was amazing.

Decorated mini Candles

French Strawberry Tarts, in jars !

Twine spoons

Pimm's Cupcake

Ready for the girls !

As the afternoon became evening, it was so pretty with the candles and the soft light.

{Pin of the week} Biscuit flip flops

How fun are these flip flops decorated biscuits from Living Locurto ???
Follow the link for some very creative Pool Party ideas. I love it all !

Have you noticed the sweet little sugar sand castle in the background ?

{Craft} How to create a tissue paper FIRE backdrop

Have you checked out this tutorial yet ?? The instructions are at the end of the original feature post over at Amy Atlas's Sweet Designs.
This was pretty easy to create but so effective to get the 3D fire effect.

Have a great week end !


Linky Parties

{Craft} How to create a City Cake Pop Display

Hope you enjoyed the Fireman Birthday Party pictures yesterday !
Here is how I made the city backdrop I used as cake pop display.

Notes:
- Sourcing the grey wrapping paper was not so easy. I do understand why nobody wants to wrap presents in grey (it sure does not scream fun !!!) but I really wanted this color....
Anyway, after searching high and low and visiting all the local party stores, I found mine at Paper Source and it was well worth the $5 a roll. The paper is thick and has a lovely matt finish, exactly what I needed for this project.
- The foam blocks I kept from my craft furniture delivery a few weeks ago ! The boxes were full of blocks in different sizes, just what I needed :)


Linky Parties

Fireman Birthday Party

Finally, all the pictures from the Fireman Party I created for my son's 2d Birthday!!! I only had two weeks to make it happen (you can read why here...!) but I am very pleased with the result. The background looks exactly how I had envisioned it, so I am happy !!!

Scroll down to the end for a list of tutorials already on the blog. There is also a link for the tutorial featured on Amy Atlas's blog Sweet Designs: How to make the Fire backdrop.
I will be posting one last tutorial tomorrow to explain how I created the buildings/cake pop display.

Get ready for picture overload !!!
Enjoy :)

 

Many thanks to two very talented ladies: Holly from Mimi's Dollhouse and her beautiful printables, and Ansley from Goodness by Ansley and her amazing cake pops.

Other supplies:
Grey vinyl tablecloth (with a metal like finish) and red buckets: Party City
Washi Tape: Michael's

Tutorials:

DIY Fire Backdrop

City Cake Pop Display

Fireman Birthday Party Banner

Fireman Birthday Party Hats

How to make Tissue paper FIRE

InLinkz.com

Linky Parties

{Fireman Party} Party Feature

Super excited, over the moon, ecstatic... that does not even cover it !!! So thrilled with the huge feature my fireman party got today on Amy Atlas's blog !!!

At last I can share the pictures of my son's Birthday Party !!!
You can see the full feature here and there is also a tutorial on how to create the fire backdrop.
I will be posting the pictures here tomorrow and I might even share another tutorial... :)