Signature Cupcakes

Gals you asked for it so here goes, how you can wow all your friends with this fail safe, easy-as-pie (or should I say easy-as-cupcake), mighty tasty, fluffy as clouds, cupcake recipe!

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Step one:
Gather the following ingredients from your local corner store.

Buttercake
90g butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup caster sugar
2 free-range eggs
1 cup self-raising flour
2 tablespoons milk

Butter cream frosting
125g butter
240g icing sugar (not icing mixture gals, don't make that mistake)
6 drops pink and yellow food colouring

Decorations
Silver cachous (large and small)
Pink sugar sprinkles

Preheat your oven to 180˚C, or 160˚C fan-forced

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Step two:
Beat those naughty buttercake ingredients including: butter, extract, sugar, eggs, flour, and milk in a beautiful old mixer on low until all ingredients are nicely combined. Once combined increase the speed to medium until the mixture turns to paler colour.

Take off the beaters and lick them clean. This is the yummiest part – even better than the bowl!

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Step three:
Using teaspoons divide the mixture into teeny weeny cupcake papers.

NB. I often use even smaller chocolate papers as these make a cupcake small enough to pop into your pretty little mouth without ruining your red lips. A must during a Sherbet Birdie photoshoot!

Bake for 15 mins exactly. This makes them pale golden on the outside and fluffy and moist on the inside.

I can get 48 cupcakes out of this mix when I use chocolate papers instead of cupcake papers.
That's a lotta cupcakes!

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Step four:
Beat those cheeky butter cream frosting ingredients all together on low until combined, then high to really make that frosting super-fluffy-like.

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Step five:
Divide your frosting mixture into two bowls. In the first bowl add 6 drops of red food colouring, and the second bowl add 6 drops of yellow food colouring. Aren't they pretty!

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Step six:
Using a simple bread knife, spread the icing on your cooled cupcakes. Remember to spread all the way to the edges. No one likes missed spots on their cupcakes!

Sprinkle both large and small silver cachous onto the cupcakes of your choice. This makes what looks like a galaxy on your cupcake... Too adorable!

Sprinkle the pink sugar sprinkles onto the other cupcakes to complete your masterpieces, but before you finish make sure you've got some tea brewing. After-all your guests will arrive any minute and there's nothing more embarrassing than serving cupcakes without a steaming teacup of Lady Grey to cleanse you palette after each munch!

Viola, your are now a master baker and have completed your Sherbet Birdie certificate in Perfectly Sumptuous Sherbet Birdie Cupcakes.

Mazeltov!
xx

On Tour Oct 2008 Sydney

Well these images are from a while ago now. October 2008 to be precise.

Carly who is our Syd and Melb makeup artist and I were early for a shoot, and obviously bored, so pranced around the Sydney studio. Never let a lady loose amongst so many frills, bobs, bows and feathers. Dangerous...

Also below is one of my favourite SB images to date. A client of ours Claire brought her sweet pup Baxter with her for the shoot. Yes we got some great images of Bax in the shoot with Claire (see Sunny Kissed on the SB website), and here's one after the shoot. He's exhausted. Life's tough Bax!

Marie Antoinette

This was a slice of genius, and I don't mind saying so.

I wanted to create a Marie Antoinette style costume smothered in frills, bows, satin, and swarovski's, but of course you can't purchase that off the rack.

I started with a regular FineLines Plunge bra (see below) and sewed all of the above onto it. I intended it would be worn with an under the bust corset so the base of the FL bra was left without detail, and the results were wonderful in the shoot (I'll upload examples once our client approves the final images).

I then embarked on a hoop skirt again in a French Rev style. This photo was taken on my camera phone so apologies for the terrible quality. It looks simply adorable with the little pasties that I made to match.

Our Lily's Makeup

These are just beautiful – so rich and vibrant, and how about the lovely handwriting that corresponds with each colour. These are 2 of Lily's make-up palettes. I just love the way she organises her make-up! Pure joy.

High-Tea

Let's start at the very beginning, it's a very good place to start...
Well by 'beginning' I mean tea-time.

In this blog you'll find images of my favourite ritual, high-tea. Not only does it taste magnificant, but also looks so delicious.

In image three you'll see my old tea plate. I don't really like it anymore so have a new tea plate with a large glass bell-shaped lid that sits upon it. It's from Portugal and I'm currently so so so in love with it :)

In the last image you'll see my (sadly now deceased) Pearl Cactus. I first saw one at the amazingly inspirational Tiffany Bozic's (www.tiffanybozic.net) house in San Fran in 2007. I searched and searched and searched for the same once I got home but didn't find one until a trip with my bro, sis, nephews and nieces in 2008 in Nimbin. I was so happy to find it. I brought it back home immediately and planted it in my broken teapot, but a few months later she left me :( booooo!

xx
Miss Sherbet

The Birdie Blog Takes Flight

Well Ladies and Gents, it's been a long time coming but I've finally found a spare moment to create the official Sherbet Birdie blog – Goodness it's been a long time coming!

This is where you can find up to date info about our shoots, clients, costumes, latest treasures, and general deliciousness!

I have been collecting images that I have been wanting to upload for a long time, so the first few blog entries are going to be old news, but I guarantee it will still be fun to read and see.

To clients that I've photographed already, I will finally upload those tea-sandwich recipes you've been asking for. And for all our new birdies take your time looking around to gain a sense of what really goes on behind the Sherbet Birdie doors!

Love to all, and thank you for reading
xx
Miss Sherbet