Happy Birthday Mum!

It's my mum's birthday today, so I decided to have a go at making her a birthday cake. It's a chocolate sponge with chocolate fudge butter cream, I made all the little blossom flowers using a plunger cutter and piped in the center of each flower and then added a few leaves. I used a pastry cone to pipe the writing with royal icing. This is the first time I have used a pipping bag and I know it's not perfect but I'm pleased with how it looks and my mum really enjoyed the cake, as you can tell from the picture!

In September, I am starting a cake decorating course with my mum and I'm looking forward to learning how to do everything properly.

Low Fat Rasberry & Cottage Cheese.

When I found this recipe I wasn't sure about the combination but after tasting them they are delicious and extremely easy to make!

If you are trying to watch your waistline these cupcakes are the ideal treat. Next time I am going to try them with blueberries instead of the raspberries.

Cupcakes for the Jamie Oliver party.

Here are the cupcakes that I made for the Jamie Oliver party, they went down great!
I made cookies 'n' cream, which has crushed cream filled chocolate cookies mixed into the sponge, topped off with vanilla butter cream with crushed cookies mixed in and a few sprinkled on top. These are a personal favorite of mine!!
I also made, strawberries and white chocolate, which is a strawberry flavored sponge with white chocolate chips, topped off with vanilla butter cream and a few chopped strawberries mixed in. Delicious!

How cute!

Whilst browsing through some old photos, I came across this of my two nieces, Clodagh and Diddi.

It was taken a few years ago, when I was babysitting and we had an afternoon of baking and this is what we came up with!

From the looks on their faces they look pretty pleased with their masterpiece! How cute!

Don't bring a bottle, just bring cupcakes!

I'm off to a Jamie Oliver party at a friends this Thursday but instead of bringing a bottle, I have decided to make and bring cupcakes, who needs wine when you have cakes!

This is also is a good excuse for me to use the girls as guinea pigs and try out some new recipes.

I will post pictures of the finished creations and fingers crossed they go down well!