Cakes Around Town and the Ovarian Cancer Action

Cakes Around Town is privileged to join forces with Ovarian Cancer Action’s cupcake campaign to raise vital funds needed for research into ovarian cancer. This disease affects 6800 women in the UK every year, 75% of whom are only diagnosed late, once survival rates have fallen dramatically.. So to help raise money and public awareness of early stage symptoms, Ovarian Cancer Action has launched a brilliant campaign called ‘The Cupcake Break’!

Few of us need an excuse for tea and cake, but simply by getting a group of friends or colleagues together to indulge in some irresistible cupcakes and a mug of your favourite brew, you’ll be creating a memorable opportunity to raise both awareness of ovarian cancer and collect donations towards potentially life-saving research.

Cakes Around Town is donating 50p from the sale of every pack of cupcake wrappers or cases sold online to the charity for the month of March, which coincides with Ovarian Cancer awareness month.
So simply order your cases or wrappers online as per usual and at the end of the month we will be delighted to send a whopping cheque to Ovarian Cancer Action to help them with their cause - which, really, is also ours.

For more information on Ovarian Cancer Action click here http://www.ovarian.org.uk/. Their website in regards to raising the money for the Cupcake Break will be up shortly and we will post the link here.

To view our range of cupcakes click here. So from the 1st of March to the 31st of March: start baking people!

Paper Eskimo Baking Cups 24 £4.50

Our delightful new Edible Icing Toppers

 Edible Sugar Heart on Raspberry Cupcake (Heart Sprinkles also shown)

 

We have just taken stock of the most delightfully crafted sugar decorations for cakes and cupakes.  We did a little photo shoot (and we are afraid to say we were a little lazy on the baking side, and bought some scrumptious cupcakes from Marks and Spencers and the Co-op! Highly recommend their Pecan Caramel).

Pecan Caramel with White Daisy

After we had completed the shoot we realised how little time it takes, given the right deco to make the most devine looking cupcakes.  So fear not, those who fear the oven....

Cow in the Clover on Raspberry Cupcake (Cupcake by M & S, Decorations by Cakes Around Town)

Buy your cupcakes from your favourite supermarket (As we said we like the Co-op and Marks and Spencers, who have a new flavour Chocolate Orange too!).  Then buy some gorgeous decorations.  You could re-dress your cupcake by placing them in new cupcake liners that are unique, or cupcake wraps (Coming to soon to Cakes Around Town UK).

Edible Footballers on Pecan Caramel (Just in time for World Cup Mania!)

With a few simple steps you can get this effect and wow everyone at your next birthday party (little did they know you just placed them on some ready made cupcakes and sprinkled with some gorgeous sugar sprinkles!). Enjoy being creative without the baking mess.

Jungle Animals on Chocolate Orange Cupcakes!

Vintage Styled Cake

SIZE: 6” round


SKILL LEVEL: Moderate

Fashion through the ages…everything old is new again!
1. A day ahead, roll out some fondant and cut an oval shape; let dry.
2. When the oval plaque is dry, use custom edible imaging to print royalty free Victorian clip art, to be cut to size and applied with a fine mist of water.(http://antiqueclipart.com/ or something similar)
3. After applying the clip art to the fondant plaque, attach White Pearlz (buy here) around the plaque with royal icing. Let dry.
4. Ice the cake with fondant and apply Classic Dots and Stripes Tall Variety Designer Prints™ decorations  to the sides.
5. Apply Black Shimmer Ribbons™ decorations along the top and the bottom of the Designer Prints™ designs, all the way around the cake.
6. Affix the plaque to the front of the cake with icing.
7. Use Classic Small Flowerette to accentuate the image.
8. Mix a batch of black icing using Liqua-Gel Color With a #5 plain round tube, pipe a bottom border and a top border, as shown.
Decorating idea by Charra Jarosz