Cupcake heavenAfter many sleepless nights of dreaming about how many cupcakes are enough the final result ended up pretty well; minus a few funny kitchen stories with G & I wiping a layer of icing sugar off our whole body and a last minute dash to buy every box of icing sugar in Tesco; I think the cupcake wedding cake went down well.

More pics to come from the professional photographer, I figured out only after the wedding my camera was on the wrong setting! The only thing in the house to eat this weekend is cupcakes - need to get to the grocery store to get some real food as there is no more 'taste testing' excuses.

Babushka Miracles
My Babushka from Russia won't open, maybe I was conned into buying a faulty one? So it is in the fridge as maybe the wood will contract to allow my teeny muscles to twist it open. Or we will ask Chad to open Babushka. As you can see the fridge needs filling but it is T-4 sleeps before the wedding cake experiment so will need to fill it with milk and eggs before then and make sure the swine germs are out so I don't make the whole wedding party ill! Am praying to the saint of baking -St. Honore (that's what Wikipedia said) to make it all go ok.

But miracles can happen, or a little creative scraping can turn this almost disaster (a little butter burning the tops of these pressies) into the lovely gifts that were given out below. The receiver didn't even notice, let's hope she never reads this blog post.

Strawberry mutantThis poor mutant strawberry still tasted good! R left it on my desk with this little note.

Cooking update: I actually baked yesterday afternoon, I made chocolate cupcakes, coconut and pineapple cupcakes and strawberry shortcake cupcakes with cream cheese and regular frosting, yum! It was a test run for D's wedding cake; they got the thumbs up from the crowd last night and the only thing left this morning was the crumbs and the mess from the party.