Thank you! (First leg of journey done, about to do second leg, they are still in tact).

The choc ones have Oreos inside. I was supposed to put jam in the vanilla ones but couldn't be bothered. I also really shoulda used my baby feet cutter for fondant shapes but I couldn't be bothered with that either (I already had leftover hearts).

Cake platter:

'Bakewell'
'Double Coffee'
'Lemon'

In standard and mini sizes.

Will purchase mini cupcake cases in different colours soon...

They look amazing . Where did you get your mini cupcake cases from ?

Thanks. The cases are from Lakeland.

I did the Macmillan Coffee Morning on Saturday (not the official date, but we can't do 27th Sept). It was hard work but SO much fun, it was amazing actually! I baked and sold around 90 cupcakes. I had initially made 60 but we ran out so I made more. I got one of our neighbours to print me out colour invitations to put through our neighbours doors, put them in the lifts, and invited our friends.

I decided on coffee, Oreo, Jaffa Cake, vanilla, and raspberry almond. We served free tea and coffee. After all the expenses, we raised around £115 to give to the Macmillan fund.

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And to everyone who loves baking cakes, please consider having a Macmillan Coffee Morning to raise money for a great cause. You can get a free pack (including balloons,invites and lots of other bits and bobs) if you go on the website:

http://coffee.macmillan.org.uk/Home.aspx#.UjtFUhZiEy4

Those cupcakes are stunning and what a brilliant cause you have supported.
My local pub is holding a coffee morning on the 27th and I shall be baking some delights for them, but they will not compare with yours.

I bet your bakes will be delicious, what will you be making?
I hope I can attend someone else's coffee morning, I like to eat other people's bakes

As I enjoyed my Macmillan thing so much, I want to do another cupcake sale around Christmas time, maybe for Great Ormand Street hospital.

Bib that is a great idea .you could have a christmas themed bake .

Yeah deffo Christmas theme, that would be really fun. I might even create one or two Christmassy flavours.

Victoria Sponge - your cakes look sensational. You are very very clever.

Brilliant cupcakes, Victoria

Fabulous looking cupcakes, Victoria, please can you share your recipe for the cupcake sponge, including the amount of flavouring to add, for chocolate, coffee, vanilla, any other etc.

Katie, I use a regular sponge mix of 1:1:1:1, I have posted it here somewhere, I will have a look in a bit and see if I can dig it out for you.

For chocolate cakes I replace 25% of the flour with cocoa powder.

Coffee - 1tsp instant coffee (mixed with the tiniest bit of water) per egg used.

Vanilla, almond, orange flavours - half a teaspoon of extract per egg used. I also add vanilla extract to coffee, and chocolate cupcakes - half a teaspoon per egg used.

thanks, think that was where I was going wrong with coffee cupcakes/sponge - using too much water then needing to add more granules to get the flavour. Sounds like a sensible approach of 1tsp w/water per egg used.
Looking forward to the recipe when you find it, no rush as need to cut down on the baking!

Camp coffee is also very good for cakes, as it's already in a liquid form. My Gran swore by it, and I keep a bottle handy for when I have to make a coffee cake for someone else.
Don't eat it myself as I can't stand coffee cake

Great idea, will buy some. Coffee cakes are my favourite!

Do you use it to flavour icing aswell?

Excellent. Nice work there.

I've used it for butter icing with no problems.

Thanks mate, I'll give that a go I think.

28th birthday cupcakes:

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yum yum. They look great.

Thanks...He loved them, and I ended up eating three!

They look super tasty

Thanks. They were yummy!