CUPCAKE MANIA HITS HATFIELD!

What a fab evening we all had at the Cupcake decorating class at The Red Lion in Hatfield on Sunday night! A big thank you to Janine, our teacher and our Sweet Herts Sister Lou for organising everything.

Look at that, all spick and span... the calm before the frosting frenzy! Then it got MESSY!!!.......

Our teacher Janine taught us all the tricks of the trade.... we learnt how to make piping cones, different piping techniques with large and small nozzles, how to colour our icing to perfection, how to create sugarcraft decorations like buttercream roses and DIY edible marzipan decorations with teeny weeny cutters and edible glitter and loads of other cool stuff. We all donned our pinnys and got stuck in. We borrowed each other's icing "Oooh, your red is redder than mine, can I have some of yours?", shared our creative ideas (Even the teacher admitted she'd be copying Bianca's heart shaped frosting in future!) and laughed at our splodgy icing mishaps! I don't think a single one of us could honestly say they didn't eat at least a bit of the icing along the way....

The result was 12 Sweet Herts Sisters with pinnys coated in buttercream, marzipan, glitter and icing sugar... oh yeah.... and a ton of ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS CUPCAKES!!!!

We all took home a lovely big box of our own creations... As you can see, I was very proud of mine!!!

Once again it was lovely to meet some new Sweet Herts Sisters on Sunday.... so if you or anyone you know is interested in joining us or running an event, we'd love to hear from you - email us at sweetherts@hotmail.co.uk or join our facebook group.

xFi

PS... We'll be able to put our cake decorating skills into action soon.... as we've got our Retro Afternoon Tea and Cake Sale fundraiser for The Eve Appeal in May.... we'll need to call on all our Sisters to get baking for a good cause.... more details coming soon.