Posted in Biscuits, Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, Macarons, Other, Other, tagged autumn leaves, baby boy, beehive, Biscuits, brian the snail, butterflies, cakes, chocolate, cookie monster, cupcakes, daisy, macaroons, olympics, poker, sugarpaste roses, Toblerone on January 16, 2013| 4 Comments »
I only started this blog at the end of September 2012 but I’d done a lot of baking before that – I hadn’t realised quite how much until I started drafting this post. Although I’ve manged to post some of the things I made at the start of the year, I doubt they’ll all make it onto here in their entirety. So, here’s a summary of my favourite ones from each month….
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, Figure Modelling, tagged caramel, chocolate, cupcakes, dragons, kids, vanilla on January 14, 2013| 3 Comments »
About a year ago I was lacking inspiration for what I could bake one week. For some reason I decided to ask Jamie for ideas. He said I should make “a giant popping candy cake with a dragon on top”. I laughed and said I wanted serious suggestions! But then when I got home, and I realised I didn’t have anything else to do that evening, I thought why not try making a dragon out of icing. After I’d made one I decided it was quite cute so had a go at making another…. and after a couple of nights I had a small family of dragons!
If you want to see the whole dragon family click here to keep reading…
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, tagged chocolate, cupcakes, happy birthday, kids, smarties on January 9, 2013| 2 Comments »
Last week the other batch of cupcakes I made were these – happy birthday ones for Sarah. These weren’t what I intended to make but I didn’t have the ingredients I needed for the decoration and Tom had gone out for the night with our only set of house keys so I couldn’t leave the house! In the end, I was pretty pleased with them and I think Sarah enjoyed them too (even if we were all completely stuffed have eaten a massive curry just before!).
Need to make some birthday cakes? If so, click here.
Posted in Chocolate, Christmas, gold, Other, Puddings, Winter on January 1, 2013| 2 Comments »
Happy New Year! Last night Tom and I decided that we would have a quiet new year’s eve with just the 2 of us – Tom made the cocktails and I made the food. For pudding I made these: salted caramel profiteroles.
I haven’t made profiteroles, or choux pastry, for a while and it wasn’t as tricky as I remember. I made them the night before and then assembled them and made the chocolate sauce just before I served them – I’d had a few cocktails by that point but luckily it was fairly straight forward!
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Figure Modelling, Fruit/Veg, Spices, tagged baking, cake, cake decorating, Christmas, drunken robins, festive, fondant animals, robin on December 24, 2012| 6 Comments »
So it’s probably a bit late to actually make a Christmas cake (I made mine about 6 weeks ago and it’s been injected with brandy once a week since then!) and maybe even too late to decorate it. But if you’re feeling ambitious then how about decorating it with drunken robins?! If you want to, here’s how.
Posted in cake pops, Chocolate, Christmas, tagged baking, brownies, cake pops, chocolate, Christmas, festive, snowman, snowmen on December 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »
If you make a whole batch of brownies and don’t want to turn them all into reindeer, what do you do with the rest of the brownies? Eat them? Or if you’ve eaten too many already there is another option. Turn them into snowmen cake pops!
Posted in cake pops, Chocolate, Christmas, tagged cake pops, chocolate brownies, Christmas, reindeer, Rudolph on December 19, 2012| 1 Comment »
Say hello to Rudolph. And his brothers. When I saw these in several places on the internet I just had to make them! And they looked so cute when they were finished that I could quite easily have gobbled them all up myself. But since they’re meant to be presents for people I had to resist. They did go through quality control a couple of times though, which Tom, in the role of chief taste tester appreciated. Do you want to make Rudolph and his friends too? Yes I do!
Posted in Biscuits, Christmas, royal icing, Spices, tagged Christmas, gingerbread, gingerbread men, icing, lebkuchen, snowflakes on December 15, 2012| 4 Comments »
I’ve got so many things to blog about and not enough time! I made these a couple of weeks ago with Becky when she came to stay. I’m having a baking weekend (again) this weekend and I made these (…again!) so I guess it makes sense to blog about these next. I’m baking Christmas presents for people this year and one of the things I’ve decided to make are mini gingerbread men and snowflakes – hopefully I’ll find time this weekend/next week to blog about the other things I’m making. If you want to make some gingerbread biscuits too click here.
Posted in Chocolate, Christmas, Cupcakes, tagged chocolate, Christmas, cupcakes, reindeer, Rudolph on December 12, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Here’s the next creation ticked off my Christmas baking list – Reindeer cupcakes. I saw these in What’s New Cupcake and I wanted to make them straight away, but making them in the middle of summer wouldn’t really have been appropriate. So I had to wait. I’ve actually made them already this year – when my sister came to stay a couple of weeks ago we invited the family over for coffee and cake on Sunday morning so these were one of the things we made then. We even made a gingerbread sleigh and a Santa cupcake to go with it – I didn’t have time to make all of that last night though! Do you want to make Rudolph and his friends?
Posted in cake pops, Chocolate, Christmas, Tray Bakes, tagged brownies, chocolate, Christmas, christmas pudding on December 8, 2012| 9 Comments »
I love trying new things and I have loads Christmassy things which I want to try to make. I have made these every year for the last few years so I nearly didn’t make them. But then I remembered how much everybody loved them and how easy they were to make so I decided I would. They are just chocolate brownies, rolled into balls and then decorated to look like mini Christmas puddings! If you want to have a go a making them click here.
Gloverly Cupcakes 