Hello all! Just wanted to share a spot of simple baking with you all today for puddings you can make easily and in a rush…
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Dude, It’s my Birthday! April 2014 Favourites & Review
Since it’s my birthday, huzzah! I thought I’d queue up today’s post since (hopefully) I’m out doing something fun and exciting… So here is my April review and some of my favourite things I’ve experienced this month.
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A spot of Easter baking: Gingerbread Iced Easter Cookies!
Hello all! It’s good friday, so I’ve done a spot of Easter baking ready for our Sunday family get together. Here are my results. These are perfect nibbles for any spring do so I hope you like them!
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March 2014 in Review
I want to share with you my March favourites and my experiences of the month. I’m going to be honest, this month started a little bit rough… but things have definitely been looking up from about midway through. I met the boyfriend’s parents for the first time on his birthday, which was a wonderful day and I performed in two separate productions which I’m really proud of. In all it’s been a month to remember.
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BAKING!
This has been one of my absolute favourite things to do this month. I’ve made a batch of cupcakes for my friend Emily’s Birthday, a cat cake for my boyfriend and a coffee cake for my mummy for mothers day. It’s just something that I’ve really gotten into recently and it’s a nice way to use my spare time instead of just watching youtube or various television programmes!
FIZZY WATER!
I haven’t been able to get enough of this stuff this month. Usually I drink a lot of Evian and I’ll occasionally have some fresh orange juice in the morning, but I’d been getting a bit bored so when I popped into ASDA’s I bought myself some of these flavoured fizzy waters. (They’re a bargain at 4 for £1.50). And they’re so yummy! My favourite is the peach flavour but to be quite honest I really enjoyed them all. A welcome treat!
PLAYS!
I’ve been in two plays this month and I’m super proud of them both. In fact we still have three more performances of Richard III to do on April 2nd, 3rd and 4th at Leicester Cathedral and I’m still very excited about it all! I’m playing the Duchess of York, Richard’s Mother and it’s a really brilliant production that we’re all so proud of. It’s a sad time, but I’m really glad that it’ll be my last production of the term.
FINDING HAPPINESS!
This is going to sound really stupid, but for me March has been about finding myself all over again. After a rubbish February it took me some time to feel good about how things were progressing in my life and I became considerably withdrawn and out of sorts. I hope I’ve moved passed that now and I really feel as though I have. In truth it’s all thanks to Ashley. He told me to make a list of all the things I was grateful for and at first I shrugged it off like it was a stupid idea but when I reached a place when I thought things couldn’t get any worse I did it and I remember how amazing my life really is. I’d like to hold on to that feeling for as long as I possibly can and I’m really pleased with how the latter half of this month has helped me do that.
Looking forward to April now.
xx
| SOURCES AND RELEVANT LINKS |
My March Flipagram || My Goals Post || 365 Picture Challenge
Making a Kitty Cat Birthday Cake
So it’s my boyfriend’s birthday today and he absolutely loves cats, so what kind of cake was I to make for his birthday? A cat one of of course! I followed a recipe from a very old book, so I’ll post that below as well a a simplified version of the items I used.
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Simplified for experienced bakers:
- I made two standard Victoria Sponge cakes, in a 1 pint pudding basin and a 2 pint pudding basin
- I shaped the smaller cake into a sphere so it could be the head
- I stuck the two cakes together with buttercream icing
- I used this buttercream icing with orange food dye to cover the cake
- I used sponge fingers to make the paws and the tail, covering them in icing also
- The ears are made out of hollowed out ice cream cones
- The nose, collar and mouth are assorted pick ‘n’ mix sweets
- I cut the eyes out of regular icing, which also formed the writing
- And finally added the spaghetti whiskers for good measure
Official recipe as per my cook book:
You will need (cake):1 pint pudding basin, 2 pint pudding basin 250g butter, 250g caster sugar, 4 eggs, 250g self-raising flour and 2 tablespoons of hot water, 3 sponge fingers, 2 ice cream cones, few liquorice sweets, 1 piece red liquorice ribbon, few short pieces of spaghetti
You will need (butter icing): 250g butter, 500g sifted icing sugar, 4 tablespoons milk, colourant
- Line and grease the pudding basins
- Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees/Gas mark 4
- Cream the fat and the sugar together until light and fluffy
- Beat in the eggs one at a time, adding a tablespoon of flour with the third egg
- Fold in the remaining flour with a metal spoon, then the hot water
- Two-thirds fill each basin with the mixture
- Bake in the preheated oven an hour for the small cake and an hour and twenty minutes for the large
- While cooking, make the butter icing (recipe below)
- Turn onto a wire rack to cool
- Trim the small cake into a ball for the head
- Place the large cake on a cake board and fix the small one on top with a little butter icing
- Position a sponge finger at the side for a tail
- Cut a slice off the other sponge fingers, place them either side of the chest, as legs and paws
- Cut the tips off the ice cream cones and place on either side of the head for ears
- Cover the kitten with icing
- Shape the sweets for the eyes and nose, press into position
- Tie the liquorice round the neck in a bow and position the spaghetti as whiskers
Butter Icing:
- Beat the butter with half the icing sugar until smooth
- Add remaining icing sugar with the milk and flavouring/colourant
- Beat until creamy
Hope this helped and that you enjoyed my kitty cat cake! xxxxx
| SOURCES AND RELEVANT LINKS |
All the Bakeware || More cat cakes || One of my favourite baking blogs
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