Little Bird Bakery

Welcome to my first blog post on Little Bird Bakery! I’m going to use this blog to tell you about my adventures in baking, as well as any other baking related things I may come across on the internet. And anything else that may strike my fancy!

Since I’m getting ready for my wedding, I haven’t been able to bake anything in the past little while (due to time and waistline constraints). My last venture was 7 dozen cupcakes for our buck & doe mid-August – and I didn’t even get any pictures of them because I ran out of time! Thankfully my fiancé Matt got one shot of them for me..

That’s a lot of cupcakes! I have a few smaller projects coming up for some friends – no details yet since they’re going to (hopefully) be surprises!

My next big project is going to be making the cupcakes for our wedding. People think I’m crazy, but I have a plan: make the batter & icing the Monday before (which just happens to be Thanksgiving Monday – I’m lucky to have an extra day off right before the wedding!), freeze those, then bake Thursday night, decorate Friday morning, and they’ll be ready to go for Saturday! Sure, they won’t be day-of fresh, but they’re vegan, so they keep pretty well. I think splitting it up into three steps will make for a less stressful time than people are imagining.. hopefully!

Here’s a peek at what they’re going to look like. The colours will be brighter – at the time that I made the trial batch, I only had liquid food colouring so I couldn’t add too much or the icing would have got runny. Now I have gel colours so that’s not a concern. I’ll have purple and green ones.

Our friend Lisa is making the cake topper for us. She wants to make the top tier of this:

I think she’s crazy for doing it for us, but we’re super excited about it, and really touched that she offered!

Well that’s it for now – I’ll post about my upcoming small projects once they’re done and delivered!

Tags: cake, cupcakes, wedding

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