I’m quite looking forward to Wimbledon starting next week as for me that’s when summer starts. I was thinking how nice it would be to have some summery cupcakes to eat whilst watching the tennis and came up with these.
Easy Wimbledon cupcakes
For the cupcakes I tried Dr Oetker’s Shake it! Vanilla Fairy Cake Mix as I was baking with the toddler. The mix is fantastic as you simply add milk and shake. Easy peasy.
After the cakes had cooled I mixed up some royal icing. I seem to have mastered it so am now using it for everything! I took a small amount of the icing out and coloured the remaining yellow. I iced a circle around the edge of each cake and, when it had dried, flooded the inside with the icing.
When the yellow icing had dried I iced a small amount of plain white icing to make the top of each cake look like a tennis ball.
What do you think of my Wimbledon cupcakes? The perfect tennis-themed cakes for watching Wimbledon. Now we just need some sunshine.
You may also be interested in our Wimbledon-inspired tennis ball sun catcher
13 Comments
Steph (@imcountingufoz)
June 21, 2012 at 5:05 pmSuper cute!
Nicola
June 21, 2012 at 5:33 pmThey are gorgeous!!
mummyslittlepeeps
June 22, 2012 at 7:34 amWhat a clever idea. They are ace!
Amanda
June 23, 2014 at 6:46 pmOh I am loving those! Off to stumble them now…perfect!
jenny
June 23, 2014 at 8:29 pmThanks so much!
Emma T
June 24, 2014 at 10:33 amLove these. And, so that’s the way to ice cakes – do the outside, dry, then fill in. I might copy these for biscuit icing. #parentingpinit
Helen Neale (@KiddyCharts)
June 27, 2014 at 12:58 pmAwesome – so simple and they look so fantastic…I am sure that mine wouldn’t look like that though
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Gude @HodgePodgeCraft
July 17, 2015 at 1:30 pmThese are so cute – I love them
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