So I thought it was about time, after many requests to set up a blog where people can view my creations in whichever form they take, as so many find Facebook hard to handle! So here we have it, a place where I can post pictures easily and write all about the different cakes, baking and creations I make! I am now taking orders and have started selling the cakes, cupcakes, cookies, slices, and even a muesli recipe that I adapted from a sweet friend of mine! It may take a while to back date all the photos as I plan to upload everything so will do it bit by but over the coming weeks! I will start where things started out and upload first all my cupcakes!
I started making cupcakes with my occupational therapist for rehabilitation, as a disease within my nervous system shut down the left hand side of my body. Two years on I am still trying to regain function of it but I am in a much better place than I was even 6 months ago! We walk it through day by day one step at a time! But this was where I discovered my love for baking and creating fancy cupcakes, and then went onto cakes and the likes! I have a lovely friend who has helped and is helping to teach me the tricks and knacks of some things and I am so grateful, for without her I would be so much further behind that I currently am now! Very blessed I am, even amongst my current circumstances, which still has me mostly house bound and dependant on my parents for getting out and around! My dream and goal is to regain function of my body so that I can go on to beat this disease and live a full and energetic life! Beat the pain and come out on top!
So without writing too much more for today... Here are some of the very first batch of cupcakes I ever made, having NEVER worked with fondant before in my life... ENJOY! Sorry some of the photos are a bit blurry!
Strawberry topped cupcakes! These were my favourite of the whole bunch! I just loved how they looked!
A side view! The strawberries were quite round.. Decent size! YUM!
An individual - just for you!
The flower cupcakes! These were pretty fun as well! I decided to have a bit of a play, well that's all any of this was, but I did each flower differently... I think my favourite is the single flower with the dots right round the edge in the top left hand corner! What one do you like best?
The suns are what I call fail! haha... I didn't like them at all.. If I went back and did them again now, I think I could do a better job, but they were defiantly not some of my better work, never mind, its all learning experience and development! We have to start somewhere! The sun in the bottom right hand corner was testing out the icing bag. Turns out the nozzle was too big for what we wanted but we learnt! I was still pleased with my efforts, considering I only had partial use of my left hand and not a lot of strength in my right I can look back and see how hard I worked on them, but also how far I have come!!
This was the final outcome! All of them together! They look pretty neat all in a group together huh?
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