It is so easy to turn a simple cupcake into something
with much more depth and meaning behind it than it had say...10 minutes ago,
when it was just a little light sponge with a rich and heavy
buttercream and a 1m-attack perched & splurged right on top of it.
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Sky Poker Dice |
So when I made
cupcakes for Russell to take to work with him at Sky Sports (obviously,
I wanted to make him look like an even bigger goodie too shoes), I was
delighted to have been approached by the guys over at Sky Poker, asking if I’d
be willing to do the same thing for them, but with a poker theme. At no point
was I going to deny such a project, so I put my baking cap on and
started drawing poker chips that I could eventually translate into cookies, and
some cupcakes like the ones I mentioned above, only with rice paper carefully
inserted into its soft and simple swirl.
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Sky Poker Cupcakes and Dice |
My first instinct for these bakes was to go for the initial Sky reds and blues as found in
these cupcakes. But then I started to really think
about it, and realised that I weren't just baking cakes for the broad spectrum
that is Sky Sports, but instead was presenting bakes for Sky Poker, a less
broad and more subject related area of Sky. So as long as I had some pungently
coloured red and blue poker chips in there, I was happy (and hopefully so was Sky Poker!)!
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Sky Poker Chips |
Flavours are consistently vanilla based throughout both of these bakes; I went
for the classic cupcake which
can be found here. Then moving onto the cookies,
I used Peggy Porschen’s Sugar Cookie (couldn’t leave my shiny new bespoke book
hanging!) recipe, but, to be completely fair, much preferred
Primrose’ version,
it was much more crisp, without those milky notes that Peggy’s version boasts.
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Sky Poker Cupcake |
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Sky Poker Chips |
What did you think of my poker themed cupcakes and cookies? Do they live up to the standards of Sky?! I'd love to know! Lastly, watch this space for (hopefully) some Macarons in the next few days!
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Would you! I only had a nibble and then straight to the compost bin. Tut tut!
DeleteWhat a unique idea, I really like the sky poker chips - totally original x
ReplyDeleteThank you miss F! Unfortunately the idea isn't totally original, there are actually so many poker themed bakes around! X
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thats so sweet of you hannah, theyre so easy to make at home as well, just requires buying a few pokerish bits and bobs! x
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ReplyDeleteits true you can! altho im getting sooooooo bored of plain cupcakes, deffo gonna start stretching out my horizons by baking dsifferent flavours more often...after 10 odd years!
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Love these and great photos, fantastic cupcake wrappers! You've made the chips look easy but it must have been very fiddly to get them so precise. Glad to see the bottles and straws in use again ;0)
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DeleteYour poker cakes and bakes look brilliant. They're really unusual and stand out from the crowd! I love the little playing card toppers too! :-)
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I'm tempted to make some of these edible poker chip sets, but I know we'd eat them before anything else.
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