ITS A FRIGGIN' RAINBOW!!

I have not much to say about these cupcakes apart from HOW CUTE ARE THESE!?!?! So easy to make and people loved the idea. Just a plain sponge with blue butter icing, white butter icing with glitter and rainbow sugar sweets.
Fantastic for children they will go mad for these babies.

Last Years Christmas.

So Christmas time came and went too quickly as usual leaving the weather behind it. This is a great time of year to bake. My mum and nephew made our family's Christmas cake. Its a traditional recipe with royal icing.

Sorry for the bad quality photo. Christmas is a great time to bake and get the kids involved my nephew helped with the icing and "snow" ( icing sugar)

Every year I make one cake for my family and one for the boyfriends family.  I love working with fruit cake or Christmas cake because marzipan makes it easy to cover in sugar paste. This is my festive sugar paste Christmas cake.

My boyfriends niece (Lilly,6) helped me make this ginger bread house with trees. I used the old templates I was given at the national bakery school it worked out great. I'm not gonna take all the credit she did most of the decorating.

Finally I am excited to say I got a waffle maker!! I will definitely post later with different recipes for waffles I am experimenting with. I want to find a brioche recipe that will be crisp on the out side and sweet and soft on the inside so watch this space.

Some Little Experimets- mars icing!!

Well this was something a tad different. Chocolate fudge cake with mars bar icing. I melted the mars bar in the microwave was a bit weird but mixed in fine with butter icing and turned out very yummy caramel and chocolatey.

Some Little Experiments - Mocha

I used to work at a cafe whilst there I was taught how to make coffees. I had made coffee cakes SO many times but coffee and chocolate....

Chocolate and coffee cakes with coffee icing and melted chocolate on top. I think they look very fancy and are very easy to make.

If any one would like the recipes for any cakes please don't be afraid to just comment and ask. 

Some Little Experiments- lemon

As any budding baker its always good to experiment with different flavors and combinations. I like lemon drizzle cake so I tried to make lemon drizzle cupcakes... Not just lemon drizzle cupcakes but lemon drizzle cup cakes with lemon curd, lemon icing and candied lemon... too much maybe?

They tasted fantastic but with experimenting you find out what works and what doesn't. Using drizzle (sugar and lemon juice) caused the paper case to become unstuck, but your not really lacking in lemon flavor so next time I will be leaving that part out.

I'm Still Alive!

Hello everyone I'm sorry I haven't written on here for a while. But I'm back to update.

So my boyfriends aunts best friend had a baby last year and I was asked to make some baby shower cupcakes. She didn't want to know what the sex of the baby was so it was half blue and half pink.

For the girls ones I used butterfly cutters with glitter on to be extra girly I also used large flower cutters which I love. For the boys I re used the tile prints that were on my nephews christening cake and blue stars. I think they turned out really well and the mother to be was very pleased.

She had a beautiful baby boy

Hula dancer cake!

My boyfriend’s niece turned 6 and decided she wanted a Hawaii themed party and as perusal it was on me to make the cake. She loved the rainbow Elvis cake I did last summer for a Hawaii Elvis party and wanted rainbow cake. So after a long think I decided to do a Barbie cake (which 6 year old girl doesn’t love Barbie) but not just any Barbie cake it had to be Hawaiian so here’s my hula dancer cake. 

I was given the cake tin to make this. So making each individual rainbow layer wasn’t going to be an option so I looked in to rainbow cakes just like this 

I found one that worked for me and it turned out better than I expected it would the sponge was moist but not dense with a hint of lemon, the children loved it and it was a wonderful party

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 inside my cake

 

 The party was great fun with beautiful face painting and a very happy 6 year old ( and her mother)