Okay I'll be the first to admit that I'm no use at writing, I'm useless at spelling and after living in Spain for the past year I can hardly even speak in plain English. So why am I writing a blog? I have 2 more weeks left in Spain and when I come home I will be starting my own business making beautiful hand-decorated cupcakes for all to enjoy. So basically my blog is to keep you all up to date on how my business is going and to show you all my creations.
The last time I was home for a wee holiday I was asked to make cupcakes for Kirkhill Primary School's summer fayre. I was really excited and happy that I had been asked because being in Spain I hadn't baked cupcakes for a lonnnnng time (I have no oven) so I was missing that and also it was a great opportunity for me to get my name out there and show off my skills.... and hopefully get a few orders! It was a very last minute thing... I came home from Spain on a Thursday and by the Saturday morning I had to have 96 cupcakes all ready to go. It was stressful and it was the first time I had ever done something like that, there were a lot of "hiccups" ....... business cards not being delivered on time, running out of icing sugar running out of oreos but all in all it was a great day and all my cupcakes were sold out! Here is a picture of the final result which I was pretty pleased with :) On the bottom tier are oreo cupcakes, the next tier are cookie cupcakes, the next are vanilla cupcakes and the next two tiers are "99" Cupcakes.
I came back to Spain the next day on a high after getting so much good feedback from everyone who had one of my cupcakes and the next week I got a message from one of my Mum's friends, Alison, saying she had an order for me! Not just any order .... an order for around 60 cupcakes for a charity event with a blood/red theme. So here I am trying to think of as many ideas as possible for this and so far I have a few things in mind. I don't want to make any kind of gory cupcakes so I think what I'm going to do is a red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting decorated with lots of red hearts, roses and daisies. I hope the end result will fit in with the event and look classy as this is my first paying order I want to get it exactly right. The event is on the 12th of June so I have quite a bit more time to get my thinking cap on and see what else I can come up with but I will keep you posted! Hope you enjoyed reading my first blog and a bit about what I'm doing at the moment.
Lynsey x
