Happy Easter! Hope you all had a lovely Easter weekend and enjoyed the sunshine. I made some mocha flavoured / Easter themed cupcakes over the weekend, using my new Hummingbird Bakery iPhone App (thank you Jak), it’s one of the more expensive apps on the App Store but well worth it, especially with the how-to videos they’ve included. Continue reading “Mocha Flavoured Easter Cupcakes”
I thought of making an iPhone cake for Jak’s birthday, then I realised it was probably a little out of my league and I didn’t want to mess up his birthday cake (maybe next year), so my alternative was to make some iPhone app sugar cookies. Continue reading “iPhone App Cookies”
Jak turned 22 yesterday, so we celebrated with presents, cake and cookies (more of which in another post). After eating most of the devil’s food cake I made at Christmas, he decided he wanted to same cake for his birthday. The whole cake is chocolate (bar the blue vanilla buttercream), so it was ideal for him! Continue reading “Chocoholic Heaven”
I had the final class of my Wilton Cake Decorating course on Monday night, not sure what I’ll do with myself now it’s all finished! We spent the first half of the class learning how to pipe writing and ribbon roses. Piping writing is still tricky, it’s hard to keep it looking neat but it really helps if you have a thin consistency of buttercream to work with. I found that my buttercream wasn’t thin enough, so midway through a letter, the buttercream would break off, so some of my words ended up a bit lumpy when I tried to join them back together. Continue reading “Wilton Cake Decorating Course – Final Week”
I celebrated my birthday this past week and my lovely friends and family made sure it was a very cake-filled birthday. I got lots of new toys and baking-related items- so thank you all very much!
I went on the 3rd week of my Wilton Decorating Course last week and we covered a lot of different piping techniques…
For Mother’s Day, I decided to make some pretty pink, rose flavoured cupcakes from (surprise, surprise) the new Hummingbird Cake Days cookbook. It is adapted from a simple vanilla sponge recipe, so the only difference is the extra tablespoon of rosewater (you can buy it at most supermarkets). Continue reading “Rose Cupcakes”