My giant cupcakes are starting to become popular! This is my fourth now, and my second “ordered” one. I got an email earlier in the week asking for one completely chocolate (case, cake and icing), and the theme was a Mad Hatter tea, so I decided to make a hat for the top as well! [...]
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Giant Princess Cupcake
You may remember this from my previous post about the Ladies Night stall I appeared at in March! I had a lot of comments from people thinking the cupcake wasn’t real, so here’s the full explanation of how it came together. The giant cupcake itself is a chocolate cake recipe (another recipe from my Step-Mum, [...]
Posted by Monnie on April 8, 2010
http://www.monniecakes.com/2010/giant-princess-cupcake/
Giant Cupcake Round Two (Oreo Paw Prints)
We have success! This went off in the end so perfectly, but I was stressing about not having enough time.. I always over stress, don’t I? I am baking for a promo event on Friday and I will also be appearing at a primary school Ladies Night with my first ever Cupcake Treats stall! But [...]
Posted by Monnie on March 22, 2010
http://www.monniecakes.com/2010/giant-cupcake-round-two-oreo-paw-prints/
Vanilla Good Luck Cupcakes
I am going to do a big follow-up on my Giant Cupcakes this weekend as I am making one for an order, so I will hand down all the tips with my second official run next week! Last week was a busy one for the business – I had one major corporate order and then [...]
Posted by Monnie on March 17, 2010
http://www.monniecakes.com/2010/vanilla-good-luck-cupcakes/
Chocolate Brownies!
Last week on Catch of the Day they advertised a brownie tin. I’ve wanted to make great looking dark chocolate brownies for a little while, so I gave it a crack with one of the included recipes last Saturday night after I picked it up at the Post Office. It was a disaster. The recipe [...]
Posted by Monnie on February 27, 2010
http://www.monniecakes.com/2010/brownies/
Dairy-Free Vanilla
I’ve posted Dairy-Free Orange and Vanilla before, but completely forgot about it when I needed a dairy-free recipe. It’s fairly easy to substitute ingredients in for specific nutritional requirements, thanks to things like gluten-free flours and lactose/vegan margarines. The photo above was from my first test run of dairy-free. I chose to use one of [...]
Posted by Monnie on February 26, 2010
http://www.monniecakes.com/2010/dairy-free-vanilla/
Red Velvet Cupcakes
I finally figured it out to a standard I’m happy with. When I made these cupcakes for the first time I used liquid food colouring. After that, I had the Wilton gel and used that for a few times. I was still getting the bright pinky colour and was scratching my head. Gel colouring is [...]
Posted by Monnie on February 16, 2010
http://www.monniecakes.com/2010/red-velvet-cupcakes-2/
Double Chocolate Cupcakes
I have been baking chocolate cupcakes a lot lately and have noticed they are a little drier than usual. I think it might be due to the weather, so I am going to start adding a little bit more butter each time to see if I can get an even balance for the seasons. We [...]
Posted by Monnie on January 6, 2010
http://www.monniecakes.com/2010/double-chocolate-cupcakes/
Vanilla Butterfly Cupcakes
This is the very first cupcake recipe I used when I started making them from scratch at the end of last year. Before that I baked mainly cakes and puddings. They’re my absolute favourite and also the easiest to make! You can’t mess up the icing part because you don’t have to be an expert [...]
Posted by Monnie on November 4, 2009
http://www.monniecakes.com/2009/vanilla-butterfly-cupcakes/
Sticky Maple Cupcakes
This recipe isn’t as impressive as the jelly slice one I posted recently, but hey, these are definitely a different taste to a regular cupcake! A bit of background: I LOVE STICKY DATE PUDDING. When I was 11, I did some catering work with my Mum up in the Barossa, and we were serving a [...]
Posted by Monnie on October 29, 2009
http://www.monniecakes.com/2009/sticky-maple-cupcakes/
Cupcake Phenomenon!
Hi! My name is Monnie and I live in Adelaide, Australia. Thanks for stopping by my cupcake blog! I love cupcakes because they bring people joy - so they make me happy in turn. I have got everyone hooked on making them and hopefully soon you will be too!
My cupcakes have won first and second place at the 2009 Coonalpyn Show so you're looking at award winning cupcakes ;) I also sell them at Cupcake Treats, my business :)
Please leave a comment on one of the recipes if you use it (and links to photos!) I love to see everyones creations. :)
xx Monnie
The Book
I've been featured in a cupcake book! 1000 Ideas For Decorating Cupcakes, Cookies and Cakes features three of my cupcake designs!
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