Cupcake Blog

Virgin Holidays Corporate Cupcakes

We always love it when a corporate cupcake customer comes back to us and especially when it’s a great company like Virgin Holidays. Have a look at these gorgeous cakes we did for a recent event at their offices in Crawley. The client was so pleased with them the she emails not long after delivery to say “Thank you so much for the cupcakes, they have gone down a treat!”. It’s always lovely to get nice feedback! Yummy!

Valentine's Cupcakes

We just love putting a smile on your face.  So how about you put a smile on the face of the one you love!  Our team have just finished designing our beautiful Valentine’s Cupcakes especially for you! Make a difference this leap year and instead of sending flowers, or chocolates order some of our cupcakes, or why not send one of our large rose cupcakes (Cupzilla with love!)   We know from past experience that they go down a treat, so, getting ordering today, don’t delay!

Branded Cupcakes on display

Here’s a picture from our latest corporate cupcakes job we did for Two Birds Bridesmaids – as you can see these are our flat iced corporate cupcakes in our standard cupcake pods, beautifully displayed on a cake stand. As part of the campaign we helped the client to send out boxes of our yummy cupcakes to a number of locations over the UK. All the client had to do was send us a company logo and list of addresses and we did the rest!

Michelle was very happy with the cupcakes and said “I’ve had a few people call up and thank us today and say how delish the cakes are ” so we’re happy too!

If you would like to find out more about our corporate cupcake service give us a call on 01273 419 727

Wow, my first 2 weeks here have been busy, I’ve already helped to bake and decorate hundreds of cupcakes. It’s hard work but a lot of fun and everyone here is lovely.

One of my first duties has been to design our new Christmas cupcake collections which I really enjoyed doing – especially the taste testing (it’s a tough job but somebodys got to do it!).

After some experimenting in cupcakes labs, we finally decided on 3 different collections.

Season’s Eatings!

As a lover of food with a sweet tooth, I happily over-indulge every Christmas! I wanted to create cupcakes that reflect the delicious sweet and spicy flavours of Christmas. In our ‘Season’s Eatings’ collection you can indulge in cupcakes inspired by mince pies, stollen, chocolate yule logs, and white chocolate rippled with juicy cranberries……………..mmmmmmm!

Festive Fun!

I really liked the fun Christmas designs we used last year and wanted to expand on them to make a whole box of cupcake fun! We have kept our original Christmas Tree, Snowman and Santa’s Hat designs and have introduced  a Christmas wreath, a Christmas Pudding and, last but not least, a shiny red nosed Rudolf – complete with Cadburys Curly-Wurly antlers. So cute!

Christmas Balls!

Finally we have the Christmas Balls collection. A box full of hand decorated cupcake baubles, each one unique, which together look so colourful and festive. These are really pretty as well as absolutely scrummy!

I love Christmas and I wanted to create flavours, as well as designs that were fun. I hope you will all enjoy them! – Jo

The Hummingbum Cake

Here at Indulgence Cupcake Company we don’t just make amazing cupcakes, we also make amazing cakes! We often don’t get a chance to blog about them as they don’t last long enough, but that’s soon to change!

Our first cake we thought we’d share with you is our signature cake, The Hummingbum Cake. Invented by us The Hummingbum is causing quite a stir locally.

Jeremy Jacobs, inventor, describes the cake “It’s a 6 layer vanilla, orange and chocolate sponge with an orange double butter cream with a chilli chocolate ganache! It’s a monster of a cake so you have to be careful how much you cut off for yourself!”

The chilli chocolate ganache certainly adds a zingto the cake and mixed with the incredibly light chocolate, orange and vanilla sponge and orange flavoured double buttercream makes it quite an unusual taste experience.

Meet Jo, Jo loooooves to bake! Jo was crowned winner at the Brighton Bake Off, a charity baking competition run by us! We were so impressed with Jo and her skills that when we read in the local paper her dream was to work full timer a baker we had to snap her up!

Jo started with us this week and is already brimming with lots of ideas for tasty new cupcakes and designs! So keep your eye out for lots of exciting developments very soon!

Jo getting cases ready for filling!

Jo is so excited to see the mixer!

Jo's winning cake!

Check out these exclusive savoury cupcake recipes we worked on with the makers of Primula Cheese to celebrate National Cupcake Week! try them out this weekend and let us know what you think!

Primula Cheese with Ham and sun dried tomato cupcakes

250g of self‐raising flour

1 teaspoon of baking powder

60g of butter

1 x 150g tube of Primula cheese and ham spread

1.5 free range eggs beaten

2 tablespoons of fresh basil

125ml milk

100g sun dried tomatoes chopped

60g cooked smokey bacon chopped

3 tablespoons of orange blossom honey

Topping ‐ drizzled fudge icing

Method

1. Pre‐heat an oven to 200 C/Gas mark 6.

2. In a large bowl mix together the flour, baking powder & butter until fully combined.

3. Add in the sun‐dried tomatoes, cooked bacon, herbs & stir well.

4. Next add the beaten egg, Honey, Primula cheese & milk mixing well.

5. Spoon the mixture into the muffin cases.

6. Bake in the oven for 25 ‐ 30 minutes for large muffins or 20 – 25 minutes for small ones.

7. The cooked muffins should be golden brown & feel firm & spongy to the touch.

8. Drizzle a small amount of fudge icing on top.

Primula, spinach and beetroot cupcakes topped with Thai sweet chilli glaze (vegetarian)

250g of self‐raising flour

1 teaspoon of baking powder

60g of butter

1 x 150g tube of Primula cheese and chive spread

1.5 free range eggs beaten

50g of fresh spinach, chopped

70g of grated uncooked beetroot

2 tbsp of fresh or dried basil

125ml milk

3 tablespoons of orange blossom honey

Topping ‐ a glaze of Primula sweet chilli dip

Method

1. Pre‐heat an oven to 200 C/Gas mark 6.

2. In a large bowl mix together the flour, baking powder & butter until fully combined.

3. Add in the chopped spinach, grated beetroot, herbs & stir well.

4. Next add the beaten egg, Primula cheese, honey & milk mixing well.

5. Spoon the mixture into the muffin cases.

6. Bake in the oven for 25 ‐ 30 minutes for large muffins or 20 – 25 minutes for small ones.

7. The cooked muffins should be golden brown & feel firm & spongy to the touch.

8. Brush the top with Primula sweet chilli dip while muffins are still warm

We were very excited last week to get a call from Virgin Atlantic to order some of our tasty cupcakes for their inaugural flight from Manchester to Las Vegas. Virgin Atlantic are renowned for their great service and unique touches. The plan is to serve up some American themed cupcakes to passengers as a little token to celebrate the launch of this brand new route.

We though it would be perfect to serve up a mini version of our popular American Dream cupcakes as part of our corporate cupcakes service.

We were recently asked to do some very unique corporate cupcakes for Guess at an event at one of their fabulous stores in London.

The corporate image was actually a triangle so we hand cut the logos and applied them to a squeezing of our infamous vanilla buttercream icing, sprinkled with gold edible glitter.

As you can see they ended up looking great, making a great sweet canapé for guests.

We’re always looking at fun ways to create new and exciting cupcakes. As part of the line up we’d like to introduce QR Code cupcakes!

Quick Response Codes (QR Codes) are exactly the same as the normal bar codes you get on a packet of sugar except they can contain lots more information such a web addresses and text. They can be scanned by most new smart phones and some versions of Android phones can read them without having to download any additional software.

We are able to put QR codes directly onto our corporate cupcakes with your company’s web address or contact information. These make them a fun and exciting way to attract customers at your next business event as you’ll really stand out. It’s also a great conversation starter! Not only that but you could also send them out for a new website or campaign launch.

All our QR Cupcakes come with instructions for users and once they are done they can enjoy the cupcake! Yummy!

Ideas

How about some of these ideas for your next event or campaign:

Business cards: the QR code can hold business card information which can be saved directly into the user’s smartphone.

Competitions: hold a lucky dip style competition for people to win prizes or give-aways to draw a huge amount of buzz at an event. User’s scan to see “winner” or “loser” text and come back to claim their prize, or just eat the cake!

Secret message: put a secret message in your box of cupcakes to the receiver. Make the art of finding out who they are from a bit more fun or share a message you don’t want anyone to easily read!

Open a web site: Send user’s of the QR Cupcake to a special website or campaign launch site.

The service doesn’t cost you any extra so get in touch about how we can help make your next corporate event truly unique.

Call us on 01273 419 727 or email contact@indulgencecupcakecompany.co.uk