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Bourbon Biscuit Cupcakes

Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, tagged , , on May 29, 2013| 2 Comments »

photo (99)When I came up with the idea of making a selection of “party biscuit” cupcakes, there wasn’t a recipe for Bourbon biscuit cupcakes in the new Hummingbird Bakery book so I decided to come up with a recipe myself. I couldn’t remember the last time I had a Bourbon biscuit so I had to buy a packet so I could taste them to remind myself what they were like! After tasting a couple, Tom and I decided that the biscuits themselves were pretty flavourless, it was the buttercream sandwiching them together which had the chocolate flavour. If you want to try making some homemade Bourbons too, keep reading….

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Party Biscuit Cupcakes

Posted in Biscuits, tagged , , , on May 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »

photo (89)A few weeks ago I gave in and I bought the new Hummingbird Bakery cookbook, Home Sweet Home. I debated for a long time whether or not I should get it – I have a large collection of baking books and I’ve only made a fraction of the recipes in them, so do I really need any more? I decided yes. I love the Cake Days book from the Hummingbird Bakery and the latest one is also full of interesting recipes. Click here to keep reading.

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Welsh Birthday Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Green, Iced Cakes, Red, White, tagged , , , on April 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERALast year I made my friend Ro a birthday cake. It was huge. So, this year when she invited me to her 30th birthday celebrations, I asked her if I could make her a giant birthday cake again. Her response was “that is possibly the silliest question I’ve ever heard”. In the end though, it wasn’t as big as the previous year – I think it would have been hard to beat it! Click here to keep reading.

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Knitting Cupcakes

Posted in Cupcakes, tagged , , , , on April 23, 2013| 5 Comments »

imageLast weekend it was my Grandma’s birthday. She loves knitting so when I saw these in one of the Hello Cupcake! books I knew I had to make them for her. I thought they would be fairly quick to make and decorate, and they were. However, I didn’t quite leave enough time for th cakes to cool down before I had to ice them so I ended up icing them while they were still warm – not something I would recommend! Click here to keep reading.

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Chocolate Biscuit Cake

Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Tray Bakes, tagged , , , , , on April 21, 2013| 7 Comments »

photo (85)Later this year I’ll be making my sister’s wedding cake. She wants one of the layers to be a chocolate biscuit cake, so, as a trial run, I decided to make a couple of the layers of her 30th birthday cake as chocolate biscuit cake. I wanted to try two very different recipes to see how they tasted and how easy they were to marzipan and ice. My mum made the top layer – it was a very rich, fruity, and slightly alcoholic chocolate biscuit cake. I made the middle layer – a biscuit cake which was more similar to rocky road. Click here to keep reading.

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Easter Bunny Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Easter, Figure Modelling, tagged , , , on March 29, 2013| 4 Comments »

easter bunny cakeAfter I made a dinosaur cake for David’s son’s birthday, he asked me if I could make an Easter cake. As soon as he said he wanted a silly (rather than serious) cake, I came up with an idea… I loved the style of the drunk robin cake I made at Christmas and decided to make it Easter themed – so instead of drunk robins on a tree trunk, I wanted to make bunnies who’d eaten too many carrots on a raised vegetable bed. The problem is, now I’ve made it, I want to keep it! Click here to keep reading.

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30th Birthday Triathlon Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, tagged , , , , , , on March 20, 2013| 7 Comments »

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My big sister turned 30 last weekend – HAPPY BIRTHDAY BECKY!! I wanted her to a have a really special day and of course, that included making her a birthday cake she would never forget. Like me, she loves baking and decorating cakes so she probably would have liked to make her own, but when I saw a picture of this cake here a while ago I knew straight away that I had to make it for her – she’s a triathlete so what could be more appropriate than a 3 tier triathlon cake?! If she feels that she’s missed out on the baking and decorating, I guess I’ll let her make mine in a couple of years! Click here to keep reading.

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Sticky Toffee Cupcakes

Posted in Cupcakes, Other, Winter, tagged , , on March 19, 2013| 3 Comments »

sticky toffee cupcakes

I’ve been wanting to make these cupcakes for ages and they were definitely worth the wait. The caramel cream cheese buttercream is probably one of the best buttercreams I’ve tasted for a while – the texture was so smooth and silky and it had just the right sweetness. I could have eaten the whole bowl! If you want to find out how to make this yummy buttercream (and the cupcakes!) keep reading…

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Red Nose Cupcakes

Posted in Cupcakes, Red, tagged , , , , , on March 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »

red nose cupcakeI wanted to make some cupcakes which looked amazing for the bake off in the office yesterday to enter into the showstopper category. I’d looked through my Hello Cupcake book on Monday night but nothing jumped out so I asked Bertie in the office for ideas – she said I should make “the bear”… I think she was getting mixed up with Children in Need! But it did give me the idea of making Red Noses. This year’s noses are pretty cool and even have feet (they’re meant to be “di-nose-saurs”) but I decided making them 100% identical would take too long given I had other stuff to bake too, so I took the simplest one and based it on that. Keep reading if you want to make

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Red Nose Jammy Bodgers

Posted in Biscuits, Other, Red, tagged , , , , on March 6, 2013| Leave a Comment »

red nose jammy bodgerLast week I saw an email about a cake sale in the office today for Comic Relief so sent an email to say I’d bake something to sell. I then discovered there was a bake off too so I thought if I was going to bake something to sell I might as well enter it into the competition. There were various categories to enter so I decided I would make cupcakes and enter the cupcake and showstopper categories and then if I had time I would bake something for the biscuit category. I managed to finish work slightly early so I had plenty of time while the cupcakes were cooling. Choosing which biscuits to make was pretty easy – for Red Nose Day there’s only one type of biscuit which is suitable… Red Nose Jammy Bodgers!

Do you want to bake something funny for money? If so, click here to keep reading.

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