A very English Tea Party

Buttercream and Dreams were lucky enough to be asked to help the lovely Fizz and Paul plan their fantastic wedding day. The wedding took place at the stunning Red House Barn in Stoke Prior. A truly beautiful venue. Old barns but with a fantastic contemporary interior. I would highly recommend it. http://www.wedding-venues.co.uk/redhousebarn

Fizz wanted to create a relaxed atmosphere with a vintage theme. We chose to decorate each table with vintage cake stands and tea cups filled with avalanche and spray roses in pale pinks and creams. The top table featured hydrangeas placed in to tea pots and milk jugs. With the tables set in cream and lilac the finished effect was a mixture of old and new, just like the barns themselves.

At the end of the meal the cake stands were collected and returned brimming with pretty cupcakes decorated with sugar flowers and blossoms. We made the cupcakes in a variety of flavours including vanilla, lemon and autumn fruits. Yummy!

I do love a good wedding tea party!

Whoops! The Whoopie pies went wrong...

And then they went oh so right again! Having been baking cakes and cupcakes for many a year I decided it was time to give the whoopie pie a go. You would think it would be easy given that they are quite simply two mini sandwiches of cakes filled with delicious buttercream. How wrong could I be! The first batch was an unprecendented disaster and I had no idea why. I stood in my kitchen and puzzled how what should be lovely plumb chocolate chip pies had descended in to what can only be described as a splodge! I was not going to give in and so put in another batch, this time a salted caramel flavour. And they worked, hooray! I discovered that the trick is to have the oven completely up to temperature so that they don't have time to spread and instead cook straight away. The oven obviously hadn't been hot enough the first time and so the now infamous splodge disaster occured. This week I have finished baking another batch of the chocolate chip whoopie pies, just to prove I could do it! At least the disaster cakes didn't go to waste. They were swiftly munched by my husband and his friends after an afternoon of ruby and drinking. Glad to see they aren't fussy!