Amateur cupcake enthusiasts: If you were to receive a box of assorted cupcake making bits and bobs as a pressie...

[TheMoistWorldOfSeptimusQuench]

...what would you like to be in it?

Have been looking at the Splat cooking site, but it's just an embarrassment of riches & I'm indecisive at the best of times.

Thanks

Choc and Orange
Cinnamon
Lemon

Yum

Nice cases - silver or gold ones always make them look special. Things for decorating - maybe some colour paste and gubbins to stick on top. Or a silicon mould to make fancy shapes.

have no idea what the specialist tools of a cupcake maker might consist of.... bunting maybe?

Doh, clearly didn't read the thread properly. I always have food on my mind.

Harpo
You need:
A PINK Kitchenaid mixer
A Cath Kidston apron
Heart-shaped cake-tins
and
An appealing dab of flour on the end of your cute button nose

at LGP. That's you, that is!

Yes, guffaw away, I know...

It's for my shopaholic cunting-bupcakey SiL though.

ok, now I have the picture... how about a gorgeous cake stand?

this sort of thing

aaaaaaaaah Jenk dreams of a pink kitchenaid,!!!

The cake stand is great Harpo, but do they have it in pink?

Ooh, nice cake stand.

Well, knowing you lot weren't going to make much sense , I have bought:

• Sugar violets
• Sugar daisies
• Edible lilac stars
• Sivler & gold cases
• Pink spotty cases
• An icing sugar shaker
• A mini spatula
• A set of natural colours
• Heart, star & crescent moon shaped cookie cutters

Twee enough?

Wish someone would spend so much effort thinking of something for me! Sounds absolutely lovely (from a newly converted baking addict )

Can I be your friend, Septimus [needy]?

I would so love to receive that lot. Edible glitter would be cool as well. My best friend gave me a stackable cooling rack last year. She understands me .

fairy cakes

grr

And it's not easy for a cat to grrrr y'know.

Are you a septic, moisty?

Fabio - aren't cupcakes just American super-sized fairy cakes?

No, that's muffins.
Fairy cakes is fairy cakes.
The septics double their size by dolloppping on a pound of butter icing andthat.

BUT

they're fairy cakes
AMericans call them cupcakes because they can't speak English proper like what we can.

OK. Point taken.

I still want to be Septimus' friend and get pressies like that. I will call the resulting baked things whatever pleases everyone concerned.

Edible glitter.

In lots of different colours.

I have just made 50 cup/fairy cakes in silver cases, with white icing, pink sugar roses and silver glitter. They look wonderful.

A silicone mould to make the sugar roses is fabbio fab too. I can direct you to a good ebay store for them if you like - nice friendly seller who didn't get stroppy when he sent me a recorded delivery package and I forgot to collect it from the post office!

Seeker can we be each other's friends and thereby justify buying such essential stuff as presents ?

Can I have that link, pretty please?

Some edible glitters -- a little sprinkle looks sooooo good on other people's cupcakes etc. but I have never quite been able to justify buying them for myself.

Oh that all sounds so lovely; will you be my friend too?

I would also like: some vanilla pods and some proper lemon and vanilla extract please.

cough someofthatisalreadyinmycupboard

Mmm. If I were twee enough to ask for cupcakey excesses at Christmas, I would put these on my wishlist:

-these
How Bunty are they? And I bet you run through them fast, better get me two lots.
-Assorted sugar daisies, forget-me-nots etc.
-Coloured sugar sprinkles
-gold cupcake cases
-some outre or obscure cookie cutters (I'm still searching for one shaped like the Millenniu, Falcon - I know it exists, I've seen it.)

ahem. Not that I'd be that Bunty.

Millenium Falcon, naturally.

Oh ffs. It has two 'n's as well as the missing M.

Going to have a drink now.

Mamahobgoblin, I have spent a small (actually pretty large) fortune on that site.