Something new

Hi everyone, this post is kind of a sequel to the Game of Thrones decorating tutorial that I posted the other day. As I mentioned in the first post I made those cakes as a competition entry, and it being a Youtube contest that means a video was required!

So in case you guys are interested, here is the video version of that tutorial.

Honestly I'm not sure if the instructions make more sense spoken, but since I'm planning on getting a new camera later this year I might be able to record some videos for this place. Would any of you be interested in that? I could do tutorial videos on techniques (e.g. icing a cupcake etc.), decorating tutorials like this one or even product reviews.

If something like that would be interesting to you my readers please let me know; email, comment, PM whatever, I'd love to get some feedback on this idea!

Decorating Tutorial and Recipe: Game of Thrones Cupcakes

Ok so this post took me slightly longer than I was expecting to write, and it’s a really long post so for once I shall make use of the jump break feature! Seriously I've written essays shorter than this post! There are also quite a few pictures.

I’ve wanted to do some Game of Thrones (GoT) themed baking for ages and in a stroke of good fortune one of my favourite Youtube channels is hosting a GoT themed contest right now. This gave me the perfect excuse! So here I present 2 designs of cupcake; one is incredibly easy while the other is a bit more advanced. I’ve also included my lemon cakes recipe.

Snapshots: Rose Birthday

Wow I have just noticed that Princess Cupcake's Cakes has had over 2000 page views! That is a thousand hits in about 3 months! Thank you so much everyone!

And now onto some real content, here is one of my latest bakes. This cake was made especially for my mum for her birthday last week

Nothing too fancy as I was rather busy last week, this was actually decorated while I was cooking a big family dinner for 6 people!!! (I'm not very good at cooking for more than 4 people normally, though I did cook for 10 very hungry archaeologists once). But this is the first use of my heart shaped, silicone cake pan that I picked up around Valentines. It's a cute mold but despite being thoroughly greased the cake stuck slightly on the bottom, not sure why.

It's a chocolate cake covered with Betty Crocker cream cheese style icing (like I said I was busy, I didn't have time to make frosting!) I then carefully piped the lettering and hearts with one of those little icing tubes you can buy in the supermarkets. The hearts were then filled in with pink edible glitter and the cake finished off with some beautiful dried rose petals and candied rose petals (the pink bits) that I have lurking in my sprinkle stash.

Mum loved it and my grandparents were pretty impressed too, I hope you my lovely readers like it to.

Next week I have a new recipe coming up and some other exciting goodies. Game of Thrones is involved ;)

Oops

I'm so sorry everyone, I've neglected this place dreadfully recently! I really hadn't intended to go this long without updating! Want to hear my excuses?

For a start, Blogger has just been driving me nuts! As part of the site revamp, I want to reorganise the label library as it is a bit of a mess. Blogger is not co-operating with this as I can't seem to find a way to delete the old ones (which I KNOW you used to be able to do!), and all I can find on the internet are guides that tell you how to replace the labels on existing posts with new ones. Not what I want to do! So if anyone knows how to fix this issue please drop me a line! Oh and going through all the old posts to fix formatting differences is just so boring and time consuming.

Secondly my own lack of artistic skill has been getting me down. I know what I want the layout to look like, but I lack the necessary skills to do this. Which is depressing and honestly it's hard to find the effort to finish fixing up the layout when I'm not happy with the bits I have made and can't make anything better. However I do have a plan, so hopefully the layout won't be unfinished for too long.

Finally I've had dreadful writer's block. I have several post series on here that need finishing and I've tried to finish them, but I'm just not happy with the way those posts have come out and I refuse to post anything that I'm not happy with. Not only have I not been able to finish old posts I haven't been able to come up with any ideas for new posts or I have but I just can't get them into a state I'm happy to post so I've had to take a break from writing recently.
But I think I have defeated that particular monster for now and I do have lots of new ideas. I actually have a "Baking to-do list of DOOM" lurking on my computer now! I've decided to focus on baking things that I find fun or amusing for a while and I'm all inspired now. So hopefully you all should start seeing the results of this soon, warning what lies ahead shall be nerdy!

So that's where we are now. I'm now in a position where I'm happy to start posting again, it might be a few days before new stuff starts appearing but it is on it's way! If you have read this post, thank you for sticking with me! I shall do my best not to disappoint you my lovely readers.

Charlotte

Ps. Before I forget, I have managed to get some new pages up. The "About" page is a bit rubbish, so please ignore that (I intend to change it), but the "Recipes" links to all the recipes I've posted here. Oh and the newest page "Conversions" is full of useful information including a selection of conversion charts for weights and oven temperatures. I have at least one more information page to write and post coming soon but if there is anything you my readers want to see, please drop me a line (email or comment!) and I'll do my best to make it happen.