Sponge..check, icing ....check, flower ...check.....job done!

So here are the cakes that I made yesterday for m.i.l...they came out ok after all. I am very happy with my icing...it's not one of my strong points so I went onto 'You tube' to see if anyone had videos of icing a cupcake and hay presto....so I've learned a new trick! They say your never too old!

The one thing I stress over when icing is having enough icing to cover all the cakes. I end up icing them  with not enough to cover them all or having loads left over because I have been too tight....and I really hate licking the remains of a frosting bowl!!! ...not!

Looks like I'll be in compitition with my little man............

Faircake.

Hello bloggers! I am finally back on board with my posts...but when I am not Harrison will be I am sure!!
I have found a wonderful company called 'faircake'. It is run by a very talented lady called Shikhita Singh. She runs cake classes in baking and decorating cakes...check out the link http://www.faircake.co.uk/
I've posted some pics for you to see. At the moment I am baking some cakes for my mother in laws birthday...I'll post them if they look ok later today....that's if time allows!

I wish mine would look like this!!
Sorry for the short post, I'm trying to get bits done whilst the little fella is in snoozy land.x

Harrison here...

HEllo, I'M hArrison.....

mUmMy's a little Busy at the moMent so I thought I'd dO a little post on heRe. wE haven't had internet acceSS for a while which drove mummy made mad and then we went Away foR a little break two to dOrset so i thought I would show you some pics.....

There wEre rainY days...buT it wouldn't be a cAravan holiDay without rain....

TheRe were sUnny days too...

We visiteD mOnkey world....

anD I took hOme mr aBbotts...I lOve him....

SooooooooooO many buckets.....

In the End is was just alL tOo much.........

You can't seE me........Look what I did to mUmmy's wool...

It was nice and soft to cUddle.....and sometimes the only thing to get me sleep in the car!

I don't want to go there again....I didn't like being in a tin box.

soon I'll bE going to sWeden so if anyoNe has anY tips about taking a littl'un like me away mUmmy would lOve to know.x

One tash or two....

I have a thing for tashes..I like them, no reason why I just do. I got my husband to grow a chopper type tash once, but he shaved it off after a week (boo hoo).
My pal also likes them... more so on objects...sock monkeys, doodles etc.....
I was paying my work pals a visit this week so I thought I would make them some tash cakes, here they are...

I made marbled chocolate and vanilla sponge....

With a chocolate frosting.......

Cake + tash + ladies =  happy days!

A treat or two for mum....

I know it was almost a week ago, but you should know me by now...I take at least a couple of weeks to post my projects!
I spent most of saturday in the kitchen making bits and bobs for my mum and m.i.l.
I purchased the Hummingbird baking book a while ago now and everything I have made from it has been delicious.I started my day by making crumbly coconut ice ( almost mixing in baby dribble,as my little Harrison wanted a front row seat whilst I was stirring it!)
I packaged the goods in cello bags and using an alphabet stamp that I purchased from The range last week I made some tags.

Next on the list was m.i.l's lemon sponge cakes with lemon cream cheese frosting..........decorated with lavender and purple flowers.....

and then last but not least lemon and poppy seed cake (Hummingbird) delicious,
zesty, and morish...like most cakes!!

It was worth all the hard work to see their happy faces and the best thing that I had on mothers day was my little boy :)
if anyone wants recipes just ask, I haven't got the energy to write them all down (tut tut)!!

Choo choo little train...

It was my nephews second birthday last month so I decided to make him a cake with a sugarpaste train that I had seen as a tutorial on Cakejournal. It was a lot easier to make than I thought.Once the candles were blown out the train and carriages didn't live a very long life. I think the kids would have been happy just to have the train and pass on the cake! Oh to be a kid eating sickly sweet things. It reminded me of when I used to eat the left over raw cake mixture my ma had made when I was little!

There are so many inspiring things on Cakejournal's website, If you haven't looked on her site, it's well worth a visit. Infact she has a post about easter egg cake pops that Iwill be making soon!

Red Velvet....

Yep,more cake! This one is a recipe from 'The Hummingbird Bakery' book.
It was quite a bit of work and it's defo not one to do with the kids, there was red cake mixture everywhere.
Whilst making it I said I wouldn't make it again because of the mess I made, but after eating it I changed my mind.

Such a wonderful vibrant colour.

It was not easy to apply the cream cheese topping due to little red crumbs coming through, but it didn't look too bad in the end.




Photograph by chris patience.



The textue was lovely and moist and the taste is rather unusual. it's not chocolatey or vanilla it's somewhere in between the two.

Word of warning it turns your tongue red (that will be the pot of food colouring ).

Another thing the flavour seems to improve day by day. It lasted in the fridge for a week, cake doesn't normally last that long in our house, but because it's so tall with the three layers you only need a thin (ish) slice!

p.s  watch out if using wooden utensils as it dyes them red!!