Having fun baking and decorating cakes
I love these cinnamon balls. They really remind me of Pesach from my childhood along with the Macaroons from yesterday’s post. We could never leave them alone and with four kids in the house my poor mum could never bake them quickly enough! They are a quick and easy to make, not to mention very …
Well, what can I say about these sticky, sweet and delicious bisuits that doesn’t involve going into the complete disaster I created whilst trying to make them in a hurry! Let me start by saying they are really easy to make but I made a complete pig’s ear of it! Anyway, let me set the …
Cakes gone by… Beau’s 7th Birthday cake When Beau was 7 I was really busy with work and knew I wouldn’t have time to create a masterpiece for her birthday party. She was having a crafting party at home and I had a lot of ‘making stuff’ to plan -mug painting, magnet making, jewellery creating …
I mentioned yesterday that I had never tried to make cake pops before. I think it’s because I read a hysterically funny blog post somewhere (years ago) where the person trying to make them made a complete mess of it! They weren’t round, the candy melts wouldn’t stick, the sticks wouldn’t stick and her disaster stuck in my mind. So …
‘Pop party’ book review This is the second Cake pop book by Claire O’Connell from The Pop Bakery. At just 23 she runs a successful cake pop business from her home in West Hampstead, London, creating truly beautiful pops, you know the kind that are too good to eat! I hadn’t made cake pops before …
Muffins for Evie Last week we had a cake sale at school to raise money for charity. We have them all the time! One of Darcey’s friends, Evie, is gluten intolerant so I made some muffins especially for her so she wouldn’t feel left out. Evie is seriously cute. I wanted to do something with …
