In need of icing inspiration!

I would really like to enter a few shows this year with my cakes! ive been doing alot of thinking and had a perhapds, not so surprising, realisation! I love baking and would really like to work harder to see if maybe i could use this tasty little skill i seem to have! So im appealing for show entry idea's at the moment! i will keep you posted!

More bank holiday baking!

obviously people in my family have too much time on their hands when bank holidays are concerned!

Really went to town on the whole red white and blue huh?!

I actually ate a bit of this cake for breakfast! so good! 

Jubilee Jollies!

Was asked by my boss to make some 'jubilee' muffins, however I'm really not that confident with muffins I think its because they're a bit out of my comfort zone! so I i did borring normal cup cakes instead! I used these cute union jack cases I found in waitrosse with a strock of luck when I was running around town in a blind panic trying to find some Queeny style ones!

They look like stilton?!

I've never made blueberry muffins before! and they turned out so well! i couldnt beleive it i was expecting a blue mess when I opened the ovan but had a lovely surprise to find them cooked perfectly. The recipe I used only requires 3oz of melted butter which seemed like a tiny ammout! but its made up with 2 large eggs that our chickens had laid for me this morning and 200ml of milk, because I cant ave milk I used my special lactofree milk and they still turned out amazingly well! very chuffed! I actually got the blueberries from Lidl becuase theyre plum tomateos that they sell i can eat by the handfull so I decided to trust them and buy blueberries there too they didn't dissapoint! 

P.s excuse the photo of my shaby purple nails... just couldnt resist comparing colours! 

Egg and nutless!

This was the outcome of our day with lovely Kate at egg and nutless! everything Kate bakes are egg and nut free which is amazing for people with allergies, it means people that normally wouldn't be able to go anywhere near a tasty muffin can enjoy a sweet treat. Shes getting quite famous for her 'cake pops' which we learnt to make at her workshop using her secret egg and nut free recipe! they look amazing and taste incredible! what do you think of our Easter chicks?

Mr whippy please!

These are my contribution to the massive mothers day meal that we're having today! all the famo are coming round for a HUGE roast.. These are my pud! I found these flakes in the supermarket the other day, new they'd come in very handy! 
I put a little too much vanilla extract in the icing so its super sweet but I'm sure all the little mouths wont mind to much! 
Happy mothers day everyone! 

Triny star!

Triny stars little cakies! I drunkenly promised somebody I would bring them cake at work and these are what she received! 

The topping for these isn't my usual butter cream! it's actually chocolate ganache.. I've never actually made ganache before and to begin with this was an absolute disaster! I used 250g of chocolate because I didn't actually buy enough to begin with, the recipe says you need 350g but I think that's a huge amount! It was so rich! however I did keep the other quantities as it said 50g of butter and 150g of single cream! anyway it all came together in the end thank fully! 


I used the lakeland cupcake cases I was chatting about the other day, they're such good quality I would defiantly recommend!