Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cake. Show all posts

Sunday, 21 July 2013

Can't stop baking.....

We have cake coming out of our ears! I just cannot stop myself from baking at the moment. I know once baby August comes along I won't feel like it, so I am making the most of it now.

Here are a few I made earlier........( my excuse as to why I've not been on here again...for ages)......


Enchanted garden cupcakes....




 
 
A little felt bunting...

 
 
 
 
Cupcakes for nanny.....




Little flowers......




 

 
 
Little hearts.......
 
 

 
 
 
And we are still wondering...Is it a girl....
 
 



Or a boy......

Just under 6 weeks and we will know!

I can't wait, neither can Harrison ( unless it's a girl, he doesn't want one of those)!!

Well enjoy the sunshine, whilst it's here........xx

Monday, 6 May 2013

Something old

Whilst looking through my posts I found an old post that I hadn't posted, so rather than write a new one I thought why not post this one....

This was before I started feeling rough...cake, cake and more cake...



 
 
 
 

 
 
 



 
 
I had started to feel better and then my sinuses kicked in along with my hayfever.
 
I am lately found with a grumpy face ( mostly) and a box of tissues, although this sunshine is making me feel better apart from the fact I am avoiding the pollen that is floating around with the aim of making me more miserable .
Don't I sound the jolly one!
here's hoping you've all had a grand weekend in the sunshine.x
 

Saturday, 10 December 2011

Jack Skellington......

My cousin asked for a 25th birthday cake....Jack from the nightmare before christmas was her choice of character.Well that's a lie...he was her second choice, I couldn't do the first 'the little mermaid'...too hard!
Well this is it, it took a while but she was pleased with the outcome....







Jack has spindly arms and legs, it's not my skill...honestly.
I get very stressed making cakes for people, but I get excited when it all starts coming together.
I hope your having a great weekend.I have been busy writing christmas cards, only a few more to do.

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Harrison is one!

Well, where does the time go!
My little baby turned one at the end of last month and I cannot believe the time has passed by so fast. One minute he is helpless in my arms and the next he is running around laughing and playing.
He's an active little lad which doesn't leave me much time for blogging these days.
I find that when I haven't blogged for a period of time,I cannot seem to get back into it..but today I decided that I would post his birthday pictures.

He loves Waybuloo, so I thought I should go with a waybuloo theme. I made the two male characters and two little nara bugs and kept with a blue and orange theme, with a little lime green thrown in for good measure....

















We had a victoria sponge cake, chocolate cupcakes and cake pops.............ummmmmmm!


Our little ray of sunshine.........Harrison.

Tuesday, 22 February 2011

I'm not just talking to myself....

.....I reached 50 follows and I want to say a big thank you to you all for adding me. I didn't think I'd end up with 5 let alone 50!
My little blog is somewhere for me to come and be creative and it's so lovely to know that you are there following me along the way.
I thought I would celebrate with a good old fashioned traditional victoria sponge with a little twist of a filling!!



Ingredients:
4 eggs, weighed in their shells
butter or margarine
caster sugar
self raising flour
the above 3 ingredients should weigh the same as the weight of the 4 eggs in shells!
(if you want smaller cakes make with 3 eggs and the same weight again in the sugar, butter and flour).
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Method:

1. Mix together the sugar and butter /marg until light and fluffy.
2. Add in the vanilla extract and beat.
3. Add the eggs and lightly beat.
4. Now sift in the flour and stir into the mixture until well combined.
5. Poor the mixture into 2 tins lined with greaseproof paper and place into the oven at 180c.
6. Bake for approx 20 minutes.

I filled the middle with a layer of strawberry jam and a layer of mascapone cheese (the mascapone stops it from becoming too sweet).
the topping is icing sugar mixed with water and pink food colouring.






Friday, 18 February 2011

Raspberry Coconut slice

A little late for a valentines post, but these are what I made for my Hubby for valentines. They went down well with a cuppa and so I thought I'd share this very easy recipe with you lovely bloggers!

 

Recipe taken from marks and spencers ' biscuits and macaroons' recipe book.


Ingredients
Sponge:
90g Butter
110g Caster sugar
1 Egg
35g Self Raising flour
100g Plain flour
1 Tablespoon custard powder
220g Raspberry jam
Coconut Topping:
160g desiccated coconut
55g Caster Sugar
2 Eggs, beaten Lightly

Method:
1. Preheat oven to 180c and grease and line a 20 x 30 cm retangular tin.
2. Beat the butter, sugar and egg in a bowl until it turns light and fluffy.
3. stir in the sifted flour and custard powder.
4. Spread the dough into the tin and then spread the jam on top ( make sure you stir the jam before spreading, as it needs to be runny to spread over the dough) .
5. place the topping ingredients into a bowl and mix until combined.
6. sprinkle over the jam ( they say sprinkle but it's too wet to sprinkle, so I placed it on top of the jam and spread it with a fork).
7. Place in the oven and bake for 40 mins.
Make sure you use the correct size tin as I used a 20 x 20 tin and it took longer to bake!!

I think you could use any jam you fancy.....maybe something like blueberry or apricot.

Enjoy your weekend.x


Sunday, 7 November 2010

My Vintage tea party

On the weekend before my little bundle of joy arrived, I had family and close friends over to my 'Vintage Tea party' (this was my take on a baby shower). I wanted to make a range of cakes for everyone to nosh and with my mum's help I managed to make quite an assortment.
Also I do love an excuse to use my cake stands, rather than them sitting redundant on top of our kitchen cupboards!


Strawberry Cheesecake cupcakes and Devonshire Scones served with devonshire clotted cream and strawberry jam.


Lemon sponge cupcakes with lemon curd and lemon frosting.


 
A little homemade rocky road treat for my guests.


 

Chocolate fudge cake.


It was a wonderful day filled with laughter and lots of tea and cake... what more could I have asked for!
Over the following weeks I will post recipes and instructions for the above cakes..... it may take me a while as I have another project that is far more important now!!!

Saturday, 11 September 2010

Hooray for holidays!

Today We have been organising ourselves ready for going away tomorrow to Bude in Cornwall for a week. We can't wait, time away from work, walking in the fresh air, eating yummy treats and hopefully some sunshine!
So no posting until after the 20th for me. Hopefully I'll have lots to post about on our return! Probably that my sugar levels have hit the roof from all of the creamy fudge, vegetable filled hot pasties, scones with jam and clotted cream....... do I need to continue?

Anyway we went to the Epping forest festival last weekend to have a goosey gander and low and behold there was a cake stall...of course I had to sample the goods and I was well behaved and only had one fairy cake with a cuppa ( all for £1.50 - bargain I say).





It was a very cute looking stall with cakes topped with every flavoured frosting you could think of having, coffee, vanilla, strawberry, chocolate...you name it, it was available.



I went for the coffee frosting  with old school sweets ( I gave the sweets to Paul - my chosen one) and he had a vanilla frosting topped with a fresh strawberry.Darn the diabetes I could have sat there and stuffed myself silly with all those cakes!
I also noticed the cake wrappers, as I hadn't seen this style before.
You can get them from the Cakes, Cookies and Crafts shop if you feel so inclined!


Have a wonderful week .x

Wednesday, 8 September 2010

Bakerella






Still making myself suffer looking at cakes on a daily basis, dreaming about a day when it will be o.k for me to eat it again whenever I want it (although by no means do I want to rush my pregnancy it's far to precious...more so than any cake)!

Well one site that I like to check out is Bakerella. She has a book coming out at the end of October called 'cake pops ' and it's teeny tiny bits of cake mixed with a frosting of your choice, rolled into balls and then covered in whatever you fancy, fondant, chocolate....Or any other yummy rolling agent!





These little gems are just a few of her cake pops.
I will definitely be trying these out at some point... I'll just add it to my long list of things to bake/make!!




How cute are these for kids.... and adults like me who haven't really grown up!
It seems pretty easy to do, as you basically make a cake of your choice and then once its cooled down, you crumble it into a bowl and add your frosting, mix well, roll into small balls, refridgerate and then dip into the chosen topping...fab!!



All of the  photos above are taken from Bakerella's website.

Thursday, 26 August 2010

A naughty treat...but not for me!


August is the month for birthdays in our family, well four of them! So it's always auntie Sarah's little task ( and I love doing it) to make cake for the little ones, which at the moment is hard seeing as I cannot eat any of it!!
But I have made myself proud and last night I watched everyone else eating their slice of victoria sponge cake with butter cream frosting, strawberry jam and fresh strawberries, whilst I sat there with my cuppa tea and a slice of....nothing!!
9 weeks to go and hopefully I can eat as much cake as I like....





Making little fairy cakes like these for the little one's takes me back to my younger years. 
Birthday parties with jelly and ice cream...

Does anyone know how to stop strawberries from making all your sponge wet.
I have given up putting sliced strawberries inside my cakes because they always drip down and make the sponge wet!!

Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Company Bake off






A good few months back, my work colleague decided we should have a company bake off to see whose skills were up to scratch, oh and just a good excuse to scoff cake each week at work.
This was my attempt...a carrot and banana cake, recipe by the lovely Annie Bell. She often has recipes in the Daily Mails 'You' magazine on a Sunday, but you can also buy this lovely book..... which is on my wish list!
As I don't have the book I am not sure if this recipe is included, but not to worry you can retrieve it from here.


Unfortunately today I was told that I have gestational Diabetes, so I won't be trying any cakes between now and the little bundle being born! I'm not keen on the idea of having a large baby, which can be caused by this type of diabetes so carrot sticks and baby corn it is then :)
If anyone has any information on it, it would be grately received as I feel a little lost at the moment.
I can't eat cake,but i can make myself suffer by looking at it!!!!
Annie Bell


 Annie Bell