Minty minty mouthful!

My boyfriend knows only too well my favorite chocolate in the world is mint aero! mint aero bubbles?! even better! He took a little visit to a cash and carry and returned home to me with a HUGE box of mint aero bubble's which sparked a little idea light bulb in my mind when I was bored to tears at work today! So as soon as I got home I set about it. 

I wanted to make chocolate and mint cuppy cakes! I made a basic chocolate cake mix for the sponge and then twisted the usall butter cream I make and use to include mint! then of course my cheeky little decoration using the millions of aero bubble my boyf supplied me with in the week! 

I'm not sure which i prefer, with the entire aero bubble on the top or them cut into halves?! 

Happy space!

I don't know if anyone will find this interesting or not but this is where all my little cakes come to life. its our little red kitchen!

I think its important to say, I don't make any cakes for any reason at all. I would love to one day be able to use this funny little talent I seem to have been blessed with. 

My friends think I'm crazy for not following it up as a career 'right now' I'm so excited to use it in the future though! So anyway here's our quirky little kitchen that makes many many many! amazing things!

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?