Sunday Afternoon Baking...

Me and the little one decided to do some baking this afternoon. I had got her a childrens cake book from work so she wanted to have a go. She's only three so I had to help a lot but I think they all turned out well.
We ended up with cupcakes (which are pink inside as well) and little iced people.

There are chocolate topped stars (these were yummy) and yummy butterfly cakes.

Only tried one so far but they are yummy!

Thanks

Vintage Pretty....

Scarily its less than 7 weeks now till my big day!

So as I'm attempting to make my own wedding cake. I've made the decision to do cupcakes for the quests but I do want a cake to at least 'cut the cake'.

Anyway with that in mind I tried to make a mini 3 tier cake.

And heres my attempt........

It actually looks a lot bigger than it is - its about 4/5 inch wide and about 8/9 inch tall.

I just made a basic sponge recipes

4 oz butter

4oz sugar

6oz flour

2 eggs

a few drops of vanilla essence

I put all the mixture into a tray and then cut the tiers out with pastry cutters, sliced them in half and used raspberry jam and buttercream and put them back together. Finally covered the whole cake in a thin layer of buttercream and then put on the ready roll icing.

For the decorations I used old broken earrings (that I washed and sanitised first) stuck on with icing.

It's a bit bumpy with I'm really happy with my first go.

Baking for Comic Relief

Wanted to just quickly show everyone my yummy cakes for Comic Relief!

In work today we're selling breakfast butties and cakes for comic relief - so I thought I'd help out and make some cakes.

And I did a few biscuit as well,

Cupcake Love....

Just wanted to show you what I spent my Saturday doing!

I absolutely LOVE Baking (definitely more of a baker than a proper cook). I have so many cook books - my first was Mary Berry's Ultimate Cake Book. K actually picked me up The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook this week as well and I can't wait to try the recipes.

I don't just like making cakes both me and the other half like to make biscuits, bread, pastry etc. We also make our own pizza's as well.

(The other half half is in the process of attempting to make his own tortillas after finding a recipe for them)

Now this batch of cupcakes was made withe the idea of whether or not to make my own wedding cakes. It was only the first attempt at the decorations etc and even though their ok, I've definitely got alot of things I want to change and perfect over the next few months.

The recipe I used for the cake:

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  4 oz caster sugar


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  4 oz soft butter


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  2 eggs


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  6 oz self rising flour


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  1 teaspoon of vanilla essence

For the butter cream icing:

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  4 oz soft butter


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  8 oz icing sugar


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  1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Just made up as per the instructions on the box really

For the butterflies:

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  fondant icing - made up as per the box for modelling option.
  
  

They were so yummy!