Up the garden path

We've been a bit unimpressed with the lack of summer lately but these cupcakes cheered us up a lot. Plenty of delicious chocolateyness and some gorgeously summery flowers, butterflies and bees... perfect even if you have to eat them indoors in your cardie with a nice hot cuppa...

Fancy a Dolly's shortcake or two?

We've been following the gossip about what's new in the world of cake since we set up Cupcake Dolly and seen the rise and rise of cupcakes, the rise and fall of macaroons and now it seems Whoopie pies are all the rage. We've sampled a good few Whoopie pies (for research purposes of course) but have been a little bit disappointed so we've invented our own version. Just as cute and much more yummy (we think anyway)... we present delicious Dolly's Shortcakes, available to order for parties and presents now.

Wedding season is in full swing...

Our blog has been a little quiet lately. That's partly due to the arrival of a small new member of the Cupcake Dolly team (welcome, baby Iris) and partly because we've been busy baking like mad for some lovely people's weddings...

One of our favourites was the giraffe themed wedding at Marwell, with scrummy chocolate and fudge cupcakes...

...and a fabulous giraffe print topper for the cupcake tower with a lovely chocolatey ribbon.

We've done 'pretty in pink...

...for a special day at Portsmouth Football club.

We've made cats and cars and lovely lilac hearts for a gorgous wedding in Wickham.

...And we've helped a few hen doos to go with a swing along the way.

Congratulations to all the lovely brides (and grooms) we've met so far and good luck to those who are still planning.

See you at Cams Hall

We'll be at the fabulous Cam's Hall in Fareham this weekend for a special wedding Fair so if you're planning your big day and fancy sampling a cupcake or two, or feel in need of some ideas, why not pop along?

It's on Sunday 4th July from 10.30am -4.00pm - hopefully see you there.

Cupcake Dolly on Radio Solent

Erica popped along to BBC Radio Solent today to chat about cupcakes with Katie Martin. The hot topic was 'Junior Apprentice', and how the young upstarts got on with their cupcake challenge, which certainly made entertaining viewing last night.

You can listen on BBC iplayer here if you fancy it.

Model behaviour...

Last week our friends at 'The Other Duckling' made the most of the sunshiny weather and stepped outside to photograph some of their lovely springy products. Our cupcakes starred in their shoot, beautifully co-ordinating with some cute flamingo napkins and a gorgeous tea cosy. We love the cakestand too.

Wonderful wedding fair

We had a lovely time at the Swanmore wedding fair, meeting lots of fabulous brides and enjoying the gorgeous spring sunshine.

We had a great little corner of the marquee for our stand...

Our cupcake tower attracted a lot of interest...

We had a snazzy pinboard to show what we can do...

...and the cupcakes looked (and tasted) yummy...

All in all a wonderful day was had by all.