Rocky Road Cupcakes

Rich chocolate mud cake,

frosted with rich chocolate ganache buttercream,

covered with chocolate coated peanuts, mini marshmallows, white chocolate chips & chunks of cherry ripe,

& drizzled with dark & white chocolate.

Sticky Date Cupcakes

Moist date cake,

filled with gooey homemade toffee,

frosted with smooth caramel buttercream,

crowned with a single date & drizzled with sticky toffee sauce.

Jaffa (chocolate orange) Cupcakes

Moist chocolate orange mud cake, 

frosted with orange scented buttercream, 

studded with chunks of jaffa chocolates, 

 & finished with a single slice of Terry's chocolate orange.

Ferrero Rocher (Chocolate Hazelnut) Cupcakes

Moist chocolate hazelnut cake,

frosted with rich chocolate hazelnut buttercream,

sprinkled with coarsely chopped hazelnuts,

topped with a single ferrero rocher

& drizzled with dark chocolate.

Crème Brulèe Cupcakes

More from the 'Deluxe Gourmet' cupcake range.

Moist vanilla custard sponge cake,

filled with homemade crème patissiere,

frosted with smooth brown sugar Italian meringue buttercream,

sprinkled with sugar bark pieces & topped with a large sugar bark shard.

Hokey Pokey Cupcakes

Another birthday gift box from the 'Deluxe Gourmet' range.

Moist fudgy chocolate sponge cake with added pieces of chocolate cover honeycomb, 

frosted with smooth honeycomb buttercream, 

sprinkled with crushed chocolate cover honeycomb pieces, 

topped with a large piece of chocolate cover honeycomb

& drizzled with a sticky toffee sauce.

Chocolate Truffle Cupcake

A birthday gift box of a dozen of my 'Deluxe Gourmet' cupcakes range

Moist dark chocolate mud cake,

frosted with a thick rich chocolate ganache buttercream, 

covered in a smooth chocolate ganache glaze,

sprinkled with chocolate curls,

topped with a decadent whole chocolate truffle.

Lemon Meringue Cupcakes

More of my 'Deluxe Gourmet' cupcakes, Lemon meringue flavour this time.

The cake base is my 'Citrus Zing' cake (lemon flavour of course).

I then filled each cupcake with a generous pocket of fresh lemon curd.

Next was the super light & fluffy marshmallow like meringue frosting which I browned with my culinary blow torch (it's good fun doing that part).

& finally a good sprinkle of fresh lemon zest & yellow sugar.

These would have to be one of my favourites as they are not as heavy as all the chocolate laden ones, although I like all those too sometimes ;-)

Raspberry Ripple Cupcakes

 Here we have birthday gift box of my raspberry ripple 'Deluxe Gourmet' cupcakes.  Traditionally raspberry ripple is vanilla & raspberry but I use white chocolate instead, yummy!

They started with white chocolate mud cake with fresh raspberries mixed through.

Next came the white chocolate & fresh homemade raspberry coulis Italian meringue buttercream.

A good scattering of nice big chunks of white chocolate were added.

Each cupcake was then crowned with a single fresh raspberry before being given a good drizzle of some more of my homemade raspberry coulis.

I love raspberries! 

Cookies & Cream Cupcakes

Talk about cookies & cream overload, these little beauties were so packed full I don't think I could get more cookies into them if I tried!

I started out with a whole full size Oreo cookie in the base of each cupcake, yes that's right a whole cookie (start as you mean to go on as they say). On top of this was my 'Killer Chocolate' (chocolate fudge) sponge cake.

Next was as always a very generous & decadent swirl of buttercream, which was vanilla Italian meringue with lots of crushed Oreo cookies throughout.

I then studded the top of each cupcakes with lots of mini Oreo cookies before adding a drizzle of cookies & cream sauce on top.

Finally was a last little extra sprinkle of crushed Oreo crumbs.

Triple Chocolate Fudge Cupcakes

Wow this next set of 'Deluxe Gourmet' cupcakes sure did have a massive chocolate fudge hit!

They were a birthday gift box of a dozen deluxe cafe style triple chocolate fudge cupcakes.

The first thing I did was whip up a batch of my own delicious homemade chocolate fudge, then next I made some of my awesome sticky hot chocolate fudge sauce.  Once I had prepared these I moved on to the actual cupcakes.

The cake flavour I used was my 'Killer Chocolate' (chocolate fudge sponge), then I filled each cupcake with some of that sticky chocolate fudge sauce.  Next came a generous swirl of my smooth, rich chocolate buttercream.

I then topped each individual cupcake with nice big chunks of my chocolate fudge & for an extra indulgent chocolate hit I couldn't resist adding a Cadbury chocolate Flake as well.

& of course I just had to finish them all off with another good dose of that beautiful chocolate fudge sauce.

"The birthday girl loved them. Thanks again" Juile