Christmas boxes and giant Christmas trees...

 A christmas box delivered on Christmas Eve.

The Giant Cupcake won in the raffle at the Garstang Victorian Evening in December.

A selection of cakes sent in the post to Scotland as a Christmas surprise 

Christmas, birthdays and Balls..................

This week I have been getting ready for the Christmas fairs.  These lovely cakes are going to the Dolphinholme Christmas Fair tomorrow which is held in the village hall from 11am to 1pm.  Come over and have a look there a lots of gift stalls......a perfect place to get bespoke Christmas presents from.

 I have also made cakes for a 64th Birthday this week and a dinner party that we went to on Wednesday evening.

This week also saw the second courier delivery of the Giant Cupcakes.

This one has just arrived in Kent this morning and is for an Eventer's Ball this evening.......lovely yummy vanilla sponge with jam and butter cream frosting.  Modelled on the winner of tonight's prizes and bought as a surprise from a very good friend.

I am taking orders for Christmas now and the cupcakes make lovely gifts or treats for friends and family.  This next week I will be getting 500 cupcakes ready for the Garstang Victorian Evening on the 10th and 11th December.......:))))

Christmas is only 34 sleeps away......Don't delay order today :)

Well Christmas is approaching fast and this week it is the local school fair so I am donating some cakes for their raffle and some for them to sell as well.   I have been experimenting with my snowflakes and pastel shades and think they look very lovely.  I then used the traditional Christmas colours and made the ones below.   I am taking orders for Christmas now so why not treat someone with a box of wonderful seasonal cakes from Jeni's Cupcakes.  Contact Jeni for more details.

I have also been playing around with some new designs too.  The spotty ones above are some of my new ones and the bows below are in my new range too. 

 I am developing a 'Vintage' range of cakes to improve my skills and this look is awesome :)  Even if I say so myself!!!!



So watch this space for my new cakes :)))

Sparkles and beach cakes .......

 This week has been a frenzie of Giant Cupcakes!!!!!!!  The above one was made for an 18th birthday and presented to her in the restaurant.  The girl is into fashion so I decorated it with handbags, shoes, hats and dresses, intermingled with pink sweets and finished off with lots of sparkles on the top.  The picture below is of it half way through with the rose icing just done.  This cake is a chocolate chip.

Next on the agenda was the beach scene below, made for someone from the Horse and Hound Forum for their friends birthday.  Once a year they go on a beach ride and this was modelled from last years photographs.  This was the first cake that I have sent via courier and it went all the way to Perthshire in Scotland.....and arrived in one piece......which means the world is now my oyster and anyone can order a Giant Cupcake :))))  This was scrummy chocolate.

This cake I have just delivered this morning to another lady from the Horse and Hound Forum again for her friends bithday tomorrow.   This was modelled again from a photograph of her eventing.  There is obviously a lot of chocoholics out there as this was a chocolate  cake too!!

Horsey Giant Cupcakes.......

Here are a few of my horsey giant cupcakes.  All made with scrumptious vanilla or chocolate sponge and filled with jam and vanilla frosting.  Finished off with a model of you and your horse and mini cupcakes around the bottom.  All of these have chocolate fingers and maltesers to make them low fat!!!!!!!!!!!

Show Jumping 

Eventing

Showjumping

Happy Halloween....

Jeni's Halloween Cupcakes

So this weekend has been full of Halloween Parties and Jeni's Cupcakes have been in demand!  Here are a few of the ones that I have made this week.  I especially like the spider and the mummy cakes, they are so funny!!!  Above are a collection that I made with ready made toppers and below are the ones all handmade by your truely!!!

LOVING the Spider!!!

Halloween Cupcakes

 A few ready to go with 'Mummy' in the middle!!!

Boo to you!!!

All the cakes went down really well and caused lots of laughs and comments......not only did they look fantastic they tasted delicious too!!!

Halloween Cupcakes

Ghoulish delights for everyone......

 HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO YOU ALL..................

Fender Guitars, Cakepops and Markets.....

A Fender Esquire 

Last week it was Peter's birthday and with him being as mad about guitars as I am about horses I thought it only fitting that I had a go at making his pride and joy into a cake.  It is only the second 'novelty' cake I have ever made and by far the most complicated and fiddly but it was worth every minute of it to see his face on Wednesday morning!!!  Onto facebook it went and off round the globe to all the guitar 'gods' and it got 239 likes before the end of the day!!!  Needless to say we are still eating it!  Good job it tastes as good as it looks!!!!

So what to do with the left over cake after the guitar was made......I thought I would have a go at some cake pops.....also a first for me.  I'm not sure I would want to make a lot of them but the kids loved them at Dolphinholme Market on Saturday so maybe I'll bear that in mind.

Dolphinholme Market was a success with a lot of stalls from bric a brac to cupcakes to sketches and also a pig stall with quails eggs and honey but no pork......yep I do have to say I thought that was odd!!!  The pork will be available in Feburary so orders were being taken.  It was a shame though as I thought we could have sausage sandwiches on Sunday.... :(  Roll on the next one :)

My website is changing all the time so please take a look and let me know what you think :) www.jeniscupcakes.co.uk  

Birthdays, BBQ's and Open Days........

So last week was a busy cake week for me and I baked 200 cakes to take to Ribby Hall Equestrian Centre Open Day on Sunday (see above), the weather was good to us and loads of people turned up to watch the demonstrations provided by the staff and others from Ribby Hall EC.  The cakes went down a treat and we only had one cake left by the end of the day!  I did a raffle for a giant cupcake and this was won by a very excited lady!!!

 

The above are just a few of the many cakes we took with us.

This week I have been busy baking for my friends for their trips away, birthdays and BBQ's.

 

I have been busy setting up my new website www.jeniscupcakes.co.uk.  Please take a look and let me know what you think.  I'm open to any suggestions.

WOOHOOOO it's Halloween.......

So this morning it was raining so much I could not ride my ponies so I thought I'd have a little play at decorating some cakes.  With Halloween approaching I decided to make this my first theme.......Please let me know what you think :)  If anyone you know is having a party or would like some for their children I am now taking orders.

 I've got my eye on you!!!

 A witches hat.....not mine though!!!!

 Not a real one.......honest!

and Incy Wincy to finish off!

Austin Healey and not a car crash!!!

The Austin Healey Cake

This Austin Healey cake was my first attempt at any sort of decorated cake and was made for a friends birthday.  I was not really sure what it would turn out like but I impressed myself and certainly Peter who I think thought he'd come home to more of a car crash than the above!!!

I learnt a lot whilst making this cake and one of the most annoying things was that I couldn't find silver icing anywhere so I had to paint all the silver bits with edible paint.  So if anyone out there knows where to buy it please let me know.

I'm back to baking cupcakes today ready for Chipping Show at the weekend.  If you are planning on a day out please pop in and see me. :)

Hi everyone

Hey there welcome to my new blog.   Talking about cakes is a bit on the new side still for me and those of you that know me know that my life has mainly been horses up until now.  But I am heading in a new direction and loving every minute of my new venture....cupcake baking.   Jeni's Cupcakes have been approved by the local council and are now supplying people in and around Lancashire with home made delights!
Please see my website or join us on facebook to see more pictures of my lovely cakes.  I will be posting them all on here in time.