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 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 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.
Posted in Chocolate, Other, Tray Bakes, tagged chocolate, toffee, toffee bars on November 25, 2012| 4 Comments »
These are possibly my favourite bar cookies – they are so simple to make and they are really moreish! They are essentially a simplified version of millionaires shortbread/caramel slice: the caramel and shortbread is combined in one layer. If you like millionaires shortbread you’ll love these.
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, tagged chocolate, cupcakes, Fudge, Toblerone on November 14, 2012| 6 Comments »
In the office, if you go on holiday you’re meant to bring back “goodies” from wherever you go. On Thursday I headed over to Germany to see Tom and then as a surprise took him to Prague for the weekend for his 30th birthday! I’ve been away for nearly a week and I left the country so in theory I should probably have brought something back. However, I didn’t. Instead, I made these Toblerone cupcakes with a giant Toblerone which technically I didn’t even buy – Tom bought me the weekend before when he came back home! If you want a Toblerone cupcake, carry on reading!
Posted in autumn, Cupcakes, Other, Spring, Summer, Winter, tagged British weather, caramel, chocolate, cloud, cupcakes, rain, umbrella, vanilla, wellies on November 7, 2012| 2 Comments »
Anybody who lives in the UK will know that this summer (if you can call it that), it rained pretty much constantly. Spring seemed to just turn into autumn, with only a couple of warm sunny days in between. The bad weather is what inspired these cupcakes, so I guess something good came out of the bad weather. If you want to brighten up your day with some cupcakes, keep reading…
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, Halloween, Orange, tagged chocolate, Halloween, orange, pumpkin, pumpkin carving on October 28, 2012| 2 Comments »
This weekend I decided to have a cooking weekend – I did a roast chicken, made two different types of soup, baked muffins for breakfast, made the Christmas cake, baked and (half) decorated some Halloween cookies, and I also made these… chocolate orange pumpkin cupcakes.
Gloverly Cupcakes 