Making Biscuits

I made some biscuits.

I piped them out onto a baking sheet.

I then baked them.

I then coated them in chocolate, somewhat hiding all the pretty pipe worked shapes, opps, got a bit carried away with the amount of chocolate.

Truffles

Haven't blogged in a while, but these are the truffles I made over Christmas for pressies.

I made cake...

I saw a picture of a cake I really wanted to make a while back, I just needed an occasion to make it. So my Nan's Birthday.

This is a test run, just to check it wouldn't be a total disaster at the last minute when I didn't have a back up plan (often a problem I have!!) But it wasn't and am quite happy.

I think I'm gunna make it in shades of green, my Nan's fav colour. There'll be pics of that 2, so fingers crossed it's successful.

I also got some icing tools when I was out shopping (it is what I used to do the icing on the cake), but I also wanted to try and make some chocolate shapes (another idea that I saw recently). I just did some test runs of hearts and stars, but worked ok. Just gotta make sure I don't get too impatient and touch them before they r properly dry!

I just tried them in my cake, think they look cute, might add these to the next cup cakes I make, now there's an idea!!

A day of making

If you have been here before or are a regular reader of my blog, u'll know by now that I love to make thing. It may be clothes, jewellery, sewing or it may be food, but I love to make.

So I spent a free day making lots of things in the kitchen. I made Ice cream (mint choc chip and chocolate), lemonade and macaroons. Yummy.

Cupcakes

I see lots of pretty cupcakes when I'm browsing around the net, so have been making a few myself.

I put some in my fav cake tin.

Yum, writing this is making me hungry, I may hav 2 go and eat one!!

Cake bites

Ok, so I have been quite excited looking through a new blog I found- Bakerella.com It has some amazing baking on there and some lovely ideas. So today I though- y not try one of them out. So I tried my hand at making cake balls.

Now here's how they should look:

So I baked a small cake (I didn't want to make too many all at once). I used one of my fav recipes, then crumbled it in a bowl and mixed it with a chocy icing.

I then rolled this in balls and laid on a sheet, so far so good. Quite easy and smooth so far!

Then came the chocolate coating. I started off by skewering them, but I broke a few of them in half, opps. So change of plan- I decided to use a spoon instead. Had a few problems, the first ones I dipped are covered in very thick chocolate and towards the end they are very thinly coated. Think I definitely need to do some perfecting of the technique!!

These are my very messy creations!! They are currently waiting to dry.

I am sure they will be yummy anyhow!

Cakes

I like to do a bit of weekend baking and am always trying out new recipes and going back to some of my favs.

I have a few mishaps, but then it wouldn't be quite as fun if you didn't would it?!

I made a toffee cake (yet to be tasted- I will let you know the verdict)

And a chocolate spread teacake, which I have made before (and so already kno it is yummy) :)

Brownies

I love brownies, so obviously I keep making them, these came out well and I could cut them up into little square without them all falling apart- always a plus!!

Cake stand

I gave in and got a domed cake stand, how gorgeous is it?!!

And I had to make a yummy cake to go inside (of course). I made a moist chocolate orange cake.

Yum, yum and yum!!!!

First Milkshake of the year

Ok, so it's hot, the sun's out and I had some new straw spoons to test out. So of course- I made milkshake, yummy!

Yummy Cake

How does choc spread cake sound?

A rhetorical question I think, who wouldn't like the sound of that.

And it was yummy, I will be making it again!

Chocolate cake

I do like a good chocolate cake and I made this one with white chocolate icing. Was very yummy (though not as neat as it could have been!)

Cupcake

I have just been experimenting with making cup cake cases. I saw a beautiful butterfly one in a magazine and thought it was amazing, though unfortunatly very expensive, so I thought- y not make my own?!

So here it is, thought it would be cute for birthdays. I have also been preactising my icing skills to make these pretty little choc cupcakes.

Honeycomb with chocolate

I have been trying to make honeycomb for a while now, have had a few disasters. One lot came out inedible, it was rock hard!! The next lot I burnt! Opps (tho the texture was right that time) and now this lot is just right! yay

Once it cooled I coated it in choc and then broke it up and put it in a jar.

Yum...

Cup cakes

I was inspired to make some pretty cup cakes after I got this new cute cup cake stand. How pretty is it?!