Happy 4th July

Some of you may  have seen my trial run at my all-American cupcake last week.

It's a rather simple idea - a red white and blue cupcake. Nothing special but it does look kinda fab. And very patriotic.

I just took my favourite vanilla cupcake, and....dyed some red and blue. Simple.

As you can see the colours kind of merged, and the blue on top went kind of green, but when you bite into them there is still a hint of white in there and you can see the three colours. Sorry I don't have a cross section picture - it began to fall over while I took it but you can kinda see how it works.

I had planned to top the cupcake with some red, white and blue fondant hearts to signify I Heart NY (my favourite place in the US..well the world actually),  but after a long weekend of working, and getting up at 4am today to open the bakery I just couldn't face fannying about with fondant. Also I couldn't find my small heart cutter and just didn't have the energy to go through my tonne of cupcaking paraphernalia. I did manage to find my USA cupcake cases and toppers that Ann Arbor Dennis brought me back recently though.

So to top the cupcakes my second plan was blueberry and strawberries on top of vanilla frosting, but then I decided to dunk the strawberry in some blue chocolate (Lindt white coloured with food dye) and voila - my perfect all-American cupcake was born.

Happy 4th July everyone!

Celebrate the 4th of July

I shall be celebrating July 4th at the American Beer Fest at the White Horse a day early (so spending the 4th with a kool n soothe on my head, drinking diet coke feeling sorry for myself in other words) but you can celebrate with a red, white and blue cupcake from Lolas. If it wasn't so baking hot outside I'd go to Selfridges tomorrow to buy one as I have the day off, however the thought of Oxford Street when its 30+ degrees scares me! Too hot to travel for cupcakes..there's a first!

Cupcake-less 4th of July

So I went to Selfridges this am, ready to get my lovely 4th of July cupcakes (below) and alas they didn't have any. The man serving at Lola's didn't have any idea about them, although he didn't seem to have much of a clue at all, it took him 10 minutes to stop his conversation and come to serve me, while another woman just stood there blatantly ignoring...nice staff they hve there!

I think tomorrow I shall go to Hummingbird and see what they have - I have to say I heart Lolas but the staff at Selfridges are just rather unpleasant to deal with and if you promise special cupcakes maybe you should have them :(

However we can trust good ole Martha Stewart to be patriotic today and clicking here will find you her American Flag cupcakes!

Today we celebrate our Independence Day

Celebrate the 4th July with a delicious box of LOLA's red velvet, chocolate and vanilla cupcakes. Each gift box will contain cupcakes iced in red, white & blue and decorated in an assortment of sprinkles & images with an American theme.

Lola's will be sampling red velvet cupcakes at Selfridges on Friday 4th July for the "United Tastes of America" - I shall be there at about 10am! I hope they're doing single red velvet ones - they're my favourite, although I'll get a box if I really have to ;)

Happy 4th July my American chums - wish I was in NY to celebrate!!!!