Cookie contest

Here's the yellow angry bird:

Cookie Contest!

So Lilaloa is having a cookie decorating contest and here's the task:

Bake a cookie using this cutter. If you don't have this cutter, that's okay, just print out this high-tech sharpie version (or trace it right on your computer screen. It's the right size.) and then hand cut a cookie or four. And then decorate that cookie to look like anything except a present. That's it. Easy peasy. You can cut off parts of it if you want, or add pieces if you need to. Just make sure that we can tell it came from the present cutter to begin with.

 

In the end i decided to do angry birds, miffy (the cute little bunny) and a powerpuff girl, not quite sure which one but oh well :L

 

Red Angry bird:

Yellow angry bird:

 

 Green pig from angry birds:

Green angry bird:

Powerpuff girl:

Miffy:

Enjoy!

 

Gold bling cake!

So a while back me and my cousin made this cake. Sorry it took so long to upload it, the photos were on my old computer and i only just transferred them. Anyway, i will say no more, i think the cake speaks for itself!

It has 6 layers!

To make it you will need:

12 ounces flour

12 ounces marg

12 ounces sugar

6 eggs

blue ( or a different colour if you want) food colouring

12 ounces flour ( take about 3 tablespoons out and replace with cocoa powder, more if you want a really strong chocolate flavour.)

12 ounces marg

12 ounces suagr

6 eggs

Just a few ingredients then!

You'll need to make the two different mixtures in different bowls you can either

 a.) put all the ingredients in a bowl and whisk. i.e the method you use when you can't be bothered or are in a rush or just like to make things easy.

b. ) cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add one egg and a teaspoon of flour and whisk until all the ingredients are used.

Spoon the mixture into different round cake tins but if you don't have enough, which we didn't, you will have to put them in the oven at different times.Annoying i know. Bake for 25-35 minutes at 180°c or until a wooden skewer comes out of the cake clean.

After the cake has cooled level the off with a knife and eat the waste cake :D Layer the cake with Better Crockers "Chocolate fudge frosting" and then cover the outside of the cake. and then for the fun bit.

Spray the whole cake with Dr Oetker gold shimmer spray and the eat a slice.

Yum.

Children in need bakesale!!

I know its a bit late and i haven't posted for a while but i thought i'd show you the cupcakes i made for children in need and how to make them.

 Plain and with sprinkles

Cupcakes with fondant buttons (I'll tell you how to make them in this post)

For the cake i used plain vanilla sponge:

8 ounces butter

8 ounces sugar

8 ounces Self raising flour

4 eggs

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons vanilla extract/flavouring/essence

Preheat oven to 180°c (fan)

1. Cream the butter and sugar together with an electric mixer, until light and fluffy

2. add 1 egg and a tablespoon of flour then mix until combined, repeat until all eggs have been used.

3. add flour, vanilla and baking powder and mix until combined.

4. Line 2 muffin trays with 12 paper cases or grease well

5. I use an ice cream scoop to put the mixture in the cases but a tablespoon and teaspoon will work fine. You don't need to even it out, it will do this in the oven on its own.

6. Put in oven for 12-15 minutes or until a knife or skewer comes out clean when put through the cupcake.DON'T OPEN THE OVEN DOOR BEFORE 10 MINUTES BECAUSE THE CUPCAKES WILL SINK IN THE MIDDLE!

7. Leave them to cool before decorating

For the buttercream i used:

225g unsalted butter (at room temperature)

450g icing sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla flavouring

A few drops of yellow food colouring until you get the colour you want ( I use americolor gel paste, egg yellow )

1. Whish the butter and icing sugar with an electric mix until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla essence and a drop of food colouring at a time, whisk again. If the colour isn't dark enough, add another drop whisk and so on.

Pie Cupcakes!

I got the amazing Hello Cupcake! and What's new Cupcake? books from my birthday. I decided to make the pie cupcakes and heres how they turned out :

I would seriously recommend buying these books, i think mine were from amazon but you can probably gets them from other places aswell

Abbie x

New baking stuff!!

I went to a shop in Nottingham(link below) the other week and guess what i bought?! AMERICOLOR FOOD COLOURS! I have been wanting them for ages and they are so cool plus they colour really well. Heres a few pics along with some other things i bought:

Rainbow!

Heres the link for the shop: http://thecakedecoratingcompany.co.uk/catalog/

Abbie x

Valentines Cupcakes?

Ok i'll just get straight to the point, these are the cupcakes i made earlier today. Vanilla sponge coloured pink althought its not very obvious in the picture:

I made chocolate buttercream and piped it from the centre outwards to make it look like a rose, then sprinkled little heart sprinkles. I think they turned out pretty cute, here's the recipe for the buttercream:

100g butter/marg

150g icing sugar

50g cocoa powder

(This probably decorates about 10 cupcakes, also if you want the chocolate flavour stronger take some of the icing out and add more cocoa powder.)

Cinnamon, ginger biscuits and very tasty cupcakes :)

Our local shopping centre has just got a brand new pretzel stall, which has the nicest cinnamon pretzels EVER. So i decided to do something cinnamon based, cupcakes of course! I used a regular cake recipe adding cinnamon at the end ( recipe below ) but decided that it could use some different flavours, and as i'd been to IKEA recently and bought "ginger thins" i decided to use them in the recipe as well. This is how they looked not decorated:

Sorry about the photo quality, my camera'snot very good

It wasn't me who ate it, i promise

 Recipe - makes 12

4 ounces sugar

4 ounces marg

4 ouncesself raising flour

2 medium eggs

Teaspoon of vanilla flavouring (optional)

2 tablespoons of cinnamon (add more or less if you want)

4 ginger biscuits

Icing sugar

Water

1./ Pre-heat the oven to 180°c (fan).

2./ Cream the butter and sugar together with a electric whisk until light and fluffy.

3./  Add 1 egg and a tablespoon of the flour(to stop the egg from curdling)then whisk until combined. Add the other egg and another tablespoon of the flour and whisk until combined.

 4./Add the remaining flour and whisk in with the cinnamon.

5./Put 3 of the biscuits in a sandwich bag and hit with a rolling pin untilbroken into small pieces and crumbs.Mix these in the cake mixture then put the mixture into a piping bag and pipe into cupcake cases which have been placed into a muffin tray.

6./ Smooth the mixture in the bun cases and put the remaining biscuit in a sandwich bag and hit until it is fine crumbs.

7./Sprinkle this over the mixture but don't mix in.

 8./Place the cupcakes in the oven for 10-15 minutes. Don't open the oven before 10 minutes otherwise your cupcakes will sink in the middle.To check if they are done, put a skewer in the middle of the cupcake, if it comes out clean they are done.

9./Take out of the oven and place on a coolling rack or bread board to cool before decorating.

10./ When cool, place the icing sugar in bowl and keep adding teaspoons of water until the right consistency.

11./ Dribble the icing over the cupcakes.

This is the cupcakes after they have been decorated :

Abbie x