Christmas wishes.....

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Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas...Relax and enjoy.

xxx

Little iced trees....

Having leftover frosting from my mince pies I thought I would put it to good use.I can't bare throwing it away. The trouble is I can never juddge how much to put on each cake/pie. I either have loads left over or some cakes are frostingless :(
 As I am not very skilled with the ol piping bag I discovered by accident on my last lot of cakes that if I use the star nozzle and just push down and not around the icing looked liked little christmas trees, so today I thought-why not make little cupcakes topped with frosted christmas trees.
So here they are.......

I used sugarpaste to make the hearts ....

The butterflies and baubles are from the dr oetkers range....

I added a little sparkle with some pearl lastre dust....

They were fun to make and eat!

Wednesday tomorrow.....only 4 more days and nights and then santa will be here!!

Merry mince pies...

Mince pies with a twist! After reading a post by Nicki from Homebird about some very scrumptious mince pies that she had baked ( after seeing them herself on cherry Menloves blog ) I couldn't resist the temptation to make some myself,  especially as they are made with shop bought ingredients....sometimes a little cheating doesn't hurt! there is homemade frosting though ( I had to add a little milk to the frosting)....Go on have a go......

Don't you just love christmas, not the shopping or the stress...just all the nosh!

wow one week to go now, I hope your all organised...... not like me!