I bet you can’t imagine all the types you could find. Cupcakes related to fashion, cupcakes related to video games such as Mario or Angry Birds, even others designed from iconic films like Star Wars. It even goes as far as finding designs inspired by technology like the iPhone and Wii! There are many more amazing cupcakes designs as well.

Most of the designs are following trends and are very unusual. Everything these days follows trends, including cupcakes.

Find the perfect bakery to buy your next cupcakes. The Lanes at Brighton is a place to find different stores, specialising in cooking these little treats and they teach you as well with some tricks to cook them.

Some bakeries have mastered the art of making cupcakes, try looking around your own city and enjoy some examples!

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Take some little cupcakes for your next event. All of your guests will enjoy for sure!

One of our interns was leaving after 5 months and our manager made some cupcakes that were delicious (I’ll ask her for the recipe and share with you all).

Here you have some pictures with some of the team eating cupcakes:

Have a nice weekend cupcakelovers!!!

• Cupcake pan or muffin tin

• Pan/foil liners

• Heatproof bowl: for melting chocolate or beating a cooked egg white frosting

• Electric mixers (if you go to the gym, you might not need this item.. )

• Graters: it can be microplane or box graters

• Measuring spoons: one set of dry measuring cups and another one of  liquid measuring cups

• Rubber or heatproof silicone spatulas in several sizes for folding mixtures together

• Pastry bag

• Wire racks: this allows for air circulation of the cupcakes so they don’t get soggy on the bottom.

Are you ready to cook?

Happy Friday cupcake lovers!!

Playing classic cheesy songs ensures a party atmosphere. Tunes with easy dance moves are a winner, as are those tracks that are so bad they’re good! Take a look at this list of the top 10 cheesy songs that are a must-have at any wedding reception.

1)     Celebration

What better way to celebrate the joining of two people than by singing ‘celebrate good times, come on’ at the top of your voice? This Kool & the Gang classic was covered by Kylie Minogue, so you can pick the version that tickles your fancy.

2)     Hokey Cokey

Wedding receptions bring generations together, and choosing a playlist to suit all ages can be challenging. That’s where this gem comes in. Old and young alike will bend their knees, stretch their arms and sing ‘rah rah rah’ with glee.

3)     Agadoo

This 1984 novelty song by Black Lace often pops up in those most annoying songs polls, which is why it’s a classic. The dance moves will get guests grooving to this so-bad-it’s-good tune.

4)     Mambo No. 5

If a song can get Jim and Twiggy from The Royle Family dancing, then it’s got to be a good bet. Lou Bega brought the catchy number to the masses in 1999, and we have been wiggling our hips ever since.

5)     YMCA

Camp as Christmas and just as fun, this up-tempo number will get those arms in the air. If cheesy is your aim, you can’t go wrong with this crowd-pleaser.

6)     Conga

Nothing screams wedding reception like the Conga! Who can resist joining in when the line wobbles past? A great way for everyone to have fun together.

7)     Birdie Song

Any newlyweds who want to see their guests behaving like chickens need this song on their playlist. The Tweets’ 1980s version of the ‘Chicken Dance’ will get everyone flapping like mad.

8)     Macarena

Surely at least one guest at any wedding will know the dance moves to this 1990s hit. By the end of the song, everyone will be busting the Macarena moves!

9)     Oops Upside Your Head

Seeing your guests sitting in a line on the floor making rowing actions has got to be a fab photo opportunity for any bride and groom.

10)        Congratulations

Cliff Richard says it best in this popular wedding reception song. It’s a great choice for getting everyone singing along and is cheese at its most tasty.

So that’s the music sorted, but what about the venue? Newlyweds-to-be looking for wedding reception venues in Manchester, Cambridge, Leeds or anywhere else will find a range of options for the special day. Just make sure you check until what time you can go on partying.

It’s been busy period at work as well as outside work and so I hadn’t been able to find the time to write a post until today(I don’t like to write when I’m in a hurry). In the last month I’ve had my family visiting me to the UL so I’ve been in charge of sight-seeing with them.

This Friday I wanted to share with you this Cuddly Cupcakes picture I took when I went to the Brighton Pier a few weeks ago.

I think these cuddly cupcakes are so sweet! I would like to have one sitting on my bed.

I don’t know why but I love this kind of decorating toys  on my bed. If I manage to get one, I’ll put it as a cupcake decoration. My  bedroom definitely needs one!

Sometimes feeling like a child makes you happier

Happy Friday cupcake lovers!

• Halloween cupcakes
• Halloween decorations for the home
• Halloween punch
• Halloween pumpkins
• Halloween games (Halloween horror film quiz)

There are lots of things to consider. Let’s start with our speciality: the cupcakes!

Halloween Cupcakes Ingredients

• 100g of Butter
• 100g of Sugar
• 150g Flour
• 1 Teaspoon of Vanilla essence
• 2 Eggs
• 150g of milk chocolate

If you are unsure or don’t know how to make these Halloween cupcakes; you can visit an old post for full recipe instructions by clicking the link “Chocolate cupcake recipe” and following our 5 simple steps.

Halloween Cupcake Topping Ingredients

• 100g Butter
• 300g Icing sugar
• ½ teaspoon of vanilla essence
• Orange food colouring (The quantity depends how orange you want your cupcakes – you can also use other food colouring colours to create other various designs such as purple, red, green and black)

Some Halloween cupcakes can be decorated to look like: pumpkins, ghosts, spiders, webs, monsters and black cats – for the less adventurous cook, you can just use standard baking Halloween sweets or Halloween coloured food colouring for your icing.

If you don’t remember how to make the Halloween toppings, you can visit an old post for full recipe instructions by clicking the link “Cream Cheese Topping” (be sure you adapt the instructions with the new ingredients as for this recipe you won’t be including cheese)

Now is time to be creative and make the Halloween topping! YAY!

• Do you remember what we did with the icing syringe?  First fill the icing syringe with the topping and start building a spider web on top of the cupcake. After that we can add spider decorations.
• Next add the normal topping onto the Halloween cupcake, placing the Halloween sweets on top.

I think this party is going to be really good and I’m looking forward to it as it’s going to be my first Halloween party in the UK. I have been looking for my witch fancy dress, but there is so many I can’t decide which one I want.

See you soon cupcake lovers!

Today I was in the office and suddenly all the office started to sang “happy birthday to you…”:  candels and cupcakes became the main characters in the room (and also my red face, I was a bit shame…) Next Tuesday is my birthday and  they decided to celebrate today with strawberry and raspberry cupcakes at brunch time because i wont be here in my birthday.

It was also Katie birthday (is tomorrow). She and Ruth made really nice cupcakes. Acually both are amazing cake  and cupcake cooks.

Taking advantage of the situation I used again my new iPhone App instagram to share with all of you this beautiful and delicious cupcakes.

Ruth strawberry cupcakes

Katie raspberry flavour cupcake

See you soon cupcakelovers <3

Yesterday enevening at “english” tea time I coudn’t resist the temptation to ate this cherry cupcake.

My friend bought the cupcakes in Angel Food Barkery, here in Brighton. They where decilious

I took this photo before ate all of them, and it was my first experience sharing the photo in my new iPhone App “Instagram“. In this app you can put different effects in your pictures and also share them with other people.

I hope you like my photo, I’m so excited and I want to eat more cupcakes this eve. YAY!

Enjoy your weekend cupcake lovers!

We hope you like my cupcake jewelry, is handmade, and it have soo much love inside.

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See you nex week cupcake lovers!!!

Our time as interns at Upstream Connections is over. That means that, after 6 months together, it’s time to begin a new stage in our lives.

For this reason, last Wednesday we had a little ‘see you later’ party in the office (I don’t like ‘goodbyes’) with PINK TOPPING CUPCAKES!

They were AMAZING, so we want to say ‘Thank you!’ to Ruth Perrett, our Operational Manager who made the beautiful and delicious pink cupcakes.

@Ruth –> we want the pink cupcake recipe to share with our cupcake followers

As a proof here is this picture:

See you soon cupcake lovers!!!!

Mar Marti