These cupcakes were made for a friend's 40th bithday. The colour theme was silver and black but as neither are particularly appetising colours and I didn't fancy giving everyone a black tongue, I opted for a simple Victoria Sandwich recipe with a white cream topping, adding the colour with the cake cases and decorations. I made 60 in total. I struggled a bit to decide on a 'manly theme', as I didn't want to make anything too girly (flowers, butterlies etc.). In the end, I opted for coloured sprinkles, '40' plaques and handmade (flower paste) champagne bottles. Unfortunately, I only had a gel-based black food colour to paint the bottles with and by the end of the evening, they'd started to run. :o(
Lesson learned: powder colours next time.
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