First Holy Communion

I'm on a roll. . .two blogs in two days! Ha! This one as the title indicates is about the First Holy Communion cupcakes I made for my partner's cousins. These cupcakes again deviate from my challenge as they are not from the 500 Cupcakes book. I decided against using any from the book as I wanted to use recipes I knew well so that there was less chance for failure, afterall I made them Friday night after work for Saturday morning, which didn't leave much room for error.

It was a long time ago now that I made my First Holy Communion but I do remember that we, the girls obviously ^_^, wore white dresses, shoes, gloves, and so forth. I figured I would try to keep the cupcakes primarily white and aimed for the 'pretty/cute' factor to tie in with my memory of the white dresses. I decided on the following cupcakes:

Victoria Cupcakes

I made these cupcakes by following the same recipe as the one I referred to in my Cake Stall blog. I figured these ones were perfect for the event, they're pretty and girly, and the cream and icing sugar are delightfully white.

Chocolate Surprise 

I made these ones using the chocolate cupcake recipe that I adore from Joy of Baking.com again. I dubbed these ones 'surprise' cupcakes on account of the fact that I put a Cadbury Roses Chocolate in the middle of each of the cupcakes.

I put a strawberry chocolate in the pink-bowed cupcakes and a caramel chocolate in the silver-bowed cupcakes. However, I think this chocolate cupcake recipe makes me even more forgetful than usual because I put my batch of cupcakes into the oven for a couple of minutes before I remembered I'd forgotten to put the 'surprise' inside! Just like the last time I made them! Ha! o_O

As I was working on a kind of 'white' theme I topped these cupcakes with a cream cheese frosting which came from Chockylit's blogsite. I adore her site, she comes up with the most fabulous flavour ideas and combinations and explains everything she does really well too!

Once I finished frosting these cupcakes I topped the strawberry chocolate filled cupcakes with some pink dragees and used yellow and green dragees to top the caramel chocolate filled cupcakes. Dragees can be found in most supermarkets, I just love how pretty and shiny they look! ^o^

Plated up and ready to go, I don't have a nice cupcake display stand, it's something I've yet to, but really want to invest in, so I covered one of my serving trays in cupcake wrapping paper! I thought it looked quite pretty! ^_^

On the topic of cupcake stands, I love the vintage ones, they're super cute! My favourite stands at the moment can be found here. I love that they're all so unique and that they use teacups and glasses, so cool! Unfortunately they're a little too pricey for me! Maybe when I win the lotto! Haha!!! ^_~

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, these cupcakes went down a treat!!! Everyone seemed to really enjoy them and as predicted everyone was 'surprised' by my Chocolate Surprise cupcakes!

My next blog will again veer away from my challenge, as it's more of a flavour experimentation. . .

Happy Baking! ^_^