Garden Cupcakes

Summer has finally (finally!) arrived in Vancouver, and our gardens are starting to look more like these cupcakes. Flowers! Insects! Colours!

These were made several weeks ago, in a flurry of catering jobs, bakers markets, work, mystery abdominal pain, graduation, my birthday, and oh, that whole Stanley Cup finals mess, for a beautiful wedding at Minter Gardens.

These summery cupcakes are chocolate hazelnut, chocolate raspberry, and lemon, all topped with a vanilla swiss meringue buttercream. If you've never had swiss meringue buttercream, please put a stop to that nonsense, and have some immediately. It will ruin you for other icings. Trust.