Getting all gifty . . .

So, my (maybe one day to be) sister in laws' birthday was coming up and i didnt know what to give them, and then is struck me, something personal, that i had made an effort with, that i enjoy creating, cupcakes of course.

(at this point i apologise for the not-so-great image quality)

So I set about finding some presentation boxes (which i bought from http://www.icing-works.co.uk/) and once they arrived i got baking.  I didnt take the decision of what flavours to include in the box lightly, in fact it kept my brain occupied for a fair few days.  I decided to include 3 different flavours, 4 of each, that way if any in the batches of 6 went wrong there would be 2 spares of each flavour!

What flavours did I choose? Well up until half way through baking they kept changing, but the final cakes came out as the following . . .

Chocolate: Chocolate mud cake with a whipped milk chocolate ganache.

Lemon meringue: Lemon cake with a meringue topping

Berry white chocolate: Mixed summer berry cake with a vanilla and white chocolate whipped ganache topping.

YUM!

I will create a blog post for each flavour over the next few days, with a few more pictures and recipes (as much as i can remember as i pretty much made these up as i went along)