Little Lady!

This is my friends daughter, she is Lady Muck's biggest fan!

Sea Shanty Cupcakes

Vanilla cupcakes recipe from The Hummingbird Bakery - 'Cake Days' cook book
Topped with sprinkles called 'Sea Shanty' from the Happy Cupcake Company in Bath!

Coca Cola Cupcakes

I wanted to try these for a while! I used this recipe 2 cups sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups small marshmallows 1/2 cup butter or margarine 1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 cup Coca-Cola®
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl, sift sugar and flour. Add marsh- mallows. In saucepan, mix butter, oil, cocoa, and Coca-Cola. Bring to a boil and pour over dry ingredients; blend well. Dissolve baking soda in buttermilk just before adding to batter along with eggs and vanilla extract, mixing well. Pour into a well-greased 9- by-13-inch pan and bake 35 to 45 minutes. Remove from oven and frost immediately.

I used Cupcake cases instead and they took around 20mins
They are really moist and light with a slight taste of coca cola
For the icing
225 grams of icing sugar
30 grams of butter
3 tablespoons of cola
1 tablespoon of cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract
1 packet of cola bottle sweets - either the jelly ones or the fizzy sugary ones, which ever you prefer!

Gifts from my Parents!

Cupcake toppers from Linda's Cupcakes.

www.cupcakelinda.co.uk

"Bake yourself happy"

Today I found my favourite new shop The happy cupcake company

Full of brightly coloured sprinkles, loads of pretty toppers, cases and all sorts of things to literally "Bake yourself happy" which is their motto quite fitting!

Take a look
http://www.thehappycupcakecompany.co.uk/gallery

The face behind the cakes

Lady Muck

Polka dot birthday cake

Traditional occasion cake decorated with a polka dot theme.

Coconut Skull cake

Coconut sponge covered with Coconut flavored buttercream decorated with icing and edible glitter, finished with silver balls!

Red velvet cake

This cake is really popular at the moment it's a American recipe. The sponge is bright red it's a shame I didn't take a photo of the inside!
The topping is made of creme cheese and icing sugar it's surprisingly light. I used a Nigella lawson recipe for this the recipe was for cupcakes but I doubled the recipe and used a 10"inch round cake tin!
Ingredients ( needs to be doubled)
250g/ 8 oz plain flour
2 tbsp/ 30 mL cocoa powder
2 tsp/ 10 mL baking powder
½ tsp/ 2 mL baking soda
100g / 3 1/2 oz soft, unsalted butter
200g / 7 oz sugar
1 heaped tbsp/ 15 mL Christmas-red paste food colouring
2 tsp/ 10 mL vanilla essence
2 eggs
175 ml/ 3/4 cup buttermilk
1 tsp/ 5 mL cider vinegar

For the frosting (needs to be doubled again)500g/16 oz icing sugar
125g/ 4 oz cream cheese
125g/ 4 oz soft unsalted butter

Butterfly cake

This cake was baked to go with the very hungry Caterpillar cupcakes, the 3 year old was a girl hence the pink and purple decoration. This cake was a tradional birthday cake, Victoria sponge,vanilla buttercream, strawberry jam and icing

The very hungry Caterpillar Cupcakes

I really enjoyed decorating these, they were baked for a 3 year olds birthday party I also baked a Butterfly cake for the main cake.

Hello Kitty Birthday cake.

This Hello Kitty cake was baked for a birthday, a simple Victoria sponge filled with tradional vanilia buttercream and strawberry jam , decorated with icing to create the face of Hello Kitty

Hummingbird Bakery

when in London I visited the Hummingbird Bakery, This made me extremely happy as I use Hummingbird Bakery cookbooks on a regular basis. The Cupcake I tasted was the lightest cake I had ever had!

Check out the Hummingbirds website
http://hummingbirdbakery.com/

It's been a while!

So it's been a while since I last blogged on here, I have still been busy baking so now it's time to update and show you what I've been up to!