It's a Boy!

Congratulations to The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge who were safely delivered a boy today! It seems very appropriate to show you this picture of some cupcakes I made for The Queen's Diamond Jubilee last year and seems fitting for our new Prince.

Another Post!

I am not doing very well keeping up with posting! Thank you to everyone who has been viewing my page and I will hopefully be doing more frequent posts!

For now I'll just show you some baking I've done recently and not so recently.

For the past few years, my school's Fairtrade group have been running a cake competition which I have entered every time. The first year I came runner up which is pretty good for a first attempt but the past two years I have won both times! Each time there is a theme and you have to incorporate the theme in with Fairtrade ideas. The first year I won was a Halloween theme of which I produced this cake:

I based it off of cupcakes from the American cupcake book called 'Hello Cupcake' by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson where I used crushed oreo biscuits for the 'soil' and piped chocolate onto baking paper and let it freeze for the trees and ghosts.


The second year I won was a Christmas theme and I made this cake which I was extremely pleased with:

The white piece of icing on the left is a Christmas Wish List of things that Fairtrade want such as 'fair wages for all farmers' and 'sustainable production'.

More recently I have done lots of different baking for several different things such as my last Spanish lesson at school where I made brownies but they were gone so quickly I didn't manage to get a picture! For my last Classics lesson I made these cakes: 

I did the two-toned icing using special compartmented icing bags which I bought here which were really easy to use and give a really good effect. I decided to use red and blue with a white pearl as it was on American Independence Day.

I also made some chocolate macaroons for a party which were all gone in minutes! It took a lot of piping: 

The recipe is easy enough to make and I filled them with some delicious chocolate ganache: 

And this is how they mostly came out: 

They didn't look perfect in any way but they tasted so good!

For my birthday in May I made some cake pops which were very easy to make as I had a wonderful machine which I bought here but can be bought in lots of different stores on and offline. This machine only takes four minutes for each bake and they come out in perfect round balls: 

 

I then covered them in melted coloured chocolate and sprinkles and they looked great:

 

I'll hopefully do some more posts when I'm back from holiday when I can have access to all my cook books and pictures but have a great summer for now :D