Mmmm.. Cupcakes

My love of making and eating cupcakes is really what got me interested in baking in the first place. Who doesn't love a good cupcake?

 I was searching the world wide web for something fun to make and I spotted a recipe for Oreo buttercream and I had to try it! It was really easy to make and tasted great!

I made loads but this is all that was left when I came back after getting my camera.  

They were all eaten and went down a treat! 

xoxo

JD!

I follow several cake blogs, who post new blogs every week of LOADS of cakes! I however, am lucky if I have one cake to post in a week! 

This week I had a John Deere Tractor cake to make. 

I was nervous when I agreed to do this this as it isn't your ordinary cake. But I chanced it, and I like to think I succeeded! 

When I was finished I decided to put the left over cake under/around the cake to make it look like it was stuck in mud. I also pipped a little bit of green coloured butter cream icing to look like grass. 

Overall, I thought the cake was good for a first attempt at a tractor.

I hope my next tractor isn't as stressful to make! 

xoxo

Two Years Today!

My boyfriend and I are going out two years today. And me wanting any excuse to make a cake, and his love of chocolate, I decided to make him a chocolate cake! 

I went for a kind of, "You hold the key to my heart", sort theme. Granted he didn't really understand what the whole chain/padlock was about, but that's just lads for ya! 

I put two roses at the front to represent our two years together. 

I really liked this cake because it was so small and simple!

And Daniel certainly enjoyed eating it!

xoxo 

GUESS

I made a cake this week for my best friends sisters 21st birthday. Whether they agreed to have me make the cake because of my ability or my friends persistence, I'll never know. 

They asked for a GUESS handbag, and a GUESS handbag they got! 

It was going to be the biggest cake I had ever made so I was really worried about being able to cover it with fonant. But I got there in the end. 

I put Zola on each end as I wasn't going writing 'Happy Birthday' on the cake so it was just a little personal touch. 

Being just 16 and not having a notion about the correct was of decorating a cake, there are mistakes in all my baking. There was a crack in the fondant at the back, which I hadn't a clue how to fix. So I created a pocket at the back to cleverly cover my error. 

I attempted to get a quilted effect on the cake, but that didn't exactly work out. That will be put on the top of my Google search list. 

I made some lipstick out of icing I had left over from other cakes. The idea of this was to have it looking like the birthday message was wrote with the lipstick. I also put the number of the lipstick as 21! 

I also made vanilla cupcakes!

 The family were very happy with the cake and it went down a treat at the party!

xoxo