Cupcake Party

Today, I had a trial cupcake party at a friends house and I am pleased to say that it went brilliantly.

There were seven ladies there in total plus their children and great fun was had by all. I took a selection of cupcakes for the children to decorate, the adults soon joined in though!

 
 

We had a colouring competition for the older children but they were all so amazing, I delcared them all winners. I brought home my nephews picture though to display proudly on my fridge.

I made a selection of cupcakes for people to buy on the day, chocolate with chocolate orange buttercream, vanilla with strawberry buttercream, chocolate with a rocky road topping and lemon with lemon buttercream. They all got snapped up so I was really happy about that.

I want to branch out into wedding favours so my fab assistant (my 12 year old niece) decorated some love heart vanilla cookies we made the night before. I'm going to bake and decorate a whole batch soon to show them off properly.

I'm really looking forward to holding more cupcake parties in the future, all though I am not looking forward to working two days non stop for it!!

Here we go.....!

Welcome!

I am at last writing on my blog!

I've had so many things i've wanted to share in the last couple of months but never got round to blogging!

Let me introduce myself, i'm Hayley and I am the baker, decorator and brains behind Rainbow Delicious Bakery.

I haven't worked for quite a while now, getting on for 2 years I think, due to illness and disability and to be honest, i'm sick of being a bum. I started baking as something to do to pass the time and found that I really enjoyed it. Then I decided I wanted to make my own wedding cake after getting engaged on New Years Eve, so I started making cakes for my family and realised I was actually pretty good! Now here we are at the end of September, Rainbow Delicious is up and running (apart from the website!) and it's doing really well.

I've had some tears and tantrums over the last few months but mostly I feel excited and motivated, my business is on my mind 24/7 and I am always thinking of ways to improve and expand. I already have orders for 2011 which is amazing and i've just started a year long cake decorating course so I can only improve right?

I would say my greatest achievement so far is this mickey mouse cake... I shed tears over this cake but in the end it turned out great and I was so proud of myself for not having a total melt down and not giving up.

I can't promise this blog will be witty, entertaining, useful or even updated on a regular basis but maybe i'll surprise myself eh?

The design of this blog is temporary while I get my logo designed and website set up.