2 Cakes 1 Week

So this was a very busy week. I had a thank you cake and a birthday cake to make in one week not to mention working! This was very challenging but great fun!

Firstly is the thank you cake. Not often you see a thank you cake but one of my friends was making uniforms for our entire crew (Fortitude) within 10 weeks. It was stressing her out and we were all so thankful for her doing them. She is FANTASTIC at making anything and she loves my cakes so it was .... fate.

She love coffee and walnut cake and I was surprised to find that one of my baked and delicious magazines (issue 5) had a coffee and walnut cake recipe. I was so happy I got down to making it straight away. The crumb coating and centre of the cake is coffee buttercream which smelt LOVELY.

As for the decoration, my friend is a HUGE star trek fan. Her husband is a Klingon and she is a Trill (surprisingly she also looks like Jadzia Dax) so it was only fitting that on the cake I did the klingon symbol and  trill spots. She absolutely LOVED it and said it tasted amazing (as I don't like coffee I didn't actually try it).

The second cake was for one of my best friends birthday. It (unfortunately) didn't turn out looking like I wanted to. This girl is amazing and has the most amazing .... assets so I just HAD to do a boob cake to celebrate the amazingness of hers.

The cake was just a lemon sponge it was BEAUTIFUL and the centre and topping was lemon butter icing (it's a good job everyone likes butter icing!) The base was iced with fondant coloured with pink sugarflair paste (possibly wilton food colouring can't remember hehe). On the top was supposed to be a nipple tassel made with fondant. It was very pretty and everyone really enjoyed tucking into it.

 My friends little boy saw both these cakes and (while I was unveiling and taking photos) he got very upset that no one was serving or cutting the cakes. Bless him!

Simple Anniversary

So it's taken me a while to post a few things. Just haven't really been up for or haven't had the time!

September was my parents anniversary and I had COMPLETELY forgotten about it (doi!) so I needed to make on and quick! This care was so simple to make it was made within a lunch break! 

The background on the card was stamped using Martha Stewart's Around the Edge stamp kit. I love this kit. It is so simple to use although it's not particularly cheap to buy!

The embellishments were just some embellishments that I picked up from Hobbycraft in the sale last year. I think they cost me around 20p and were a good find and only wish I had picked up more. They were raised off the service to give the card a bit of dimension.

2nd Birthdays

So I was invited to my nephews 2nd birthday party which he was sharing with his little "girlfriend" who was also 2. Now they are both amazing kids and love them both 'cause they are so gorgeous so I had to make them some extra special cards.

My nephew is currently OBSESSED with diggers everything thing is digger digger digger, so naturally I had to do a digger card and who better that Scoop from Bob the Builder. This card was simple. I printed a black and white picture of Scoop from the internet onto super soft paper from My Craft Studio (perfect if you want a nice looking picture!). I then coloured it in using whispers pens. As lovely as these pens are, I would have preferred to use Promarkers as they don't smudge into the other inks. (Slight problem with black smudging with yellow although this made Scoop look mucky which worked!). I then mounted this on some home made 'wobble' springs (To make your own watch this video). The sentiment was done using a speech bubble from google images and the My Craft Studio program to insert the writing perfectly into it. The writing was the same colour as Scoop however my printer is not fantastic at printing colours.

According to my sister he loved the card so much that he pulled scoop off of it and carried it around the house with him =) Always an amazing feeling when you get told something like that! =)

Now Isabelle was a little more difficult to do as I'm not really sure what she is into so I went for a nice safe girly pink princess. I used a nice simple Jolly Nation (used to be Paper Nation) decoupage of a nice pink princess. I just cut it out and layered it up. It was very simple but very pink. The peel offs were see through so they showed the colour of the card through them however, I kinda wish I hadn't used them but had just used plain silver ones but hayho hindsight is a wonderfull thing. Lolz.

As far as I know she like it as I never actually saw her open it.

Graduation Invite

So my graduation was 2 weeks ago which was brilliant!!!!
(A small picture to celebrate)

Before the event I had bought my grandparents tickets for the graduation and thought I should make it a proper invite so made an invitation for them.

I thought it turned out pretty well. I used the everyday paper dolls cartridge in a 'Cricut' machine to create the graduation doll. The border has been created using Martha Stewart's corner and border stamps. They are amazing and really suggest to any crafter to buy a set! The ink used is a brilliance ink pad although I can't remember the colour of it other than red hehe.

Orange Drizzle Loaf

I decided to make my sister a birthday cake. I was going to make a Lemon Drizzle Loaf but found this recipe and thought she would enjoy it more! This tasted like a jaffa cake! I got the recipe off BBCs Good Food website so thought i'd share it with you all.

Ingredients

Cake

140g Butter, softened

200g Caster sugar

3 Large eggs

6 tbsp Milk

200g Self-raising flour

1 1/2 tsp Baking powder

Finely grated zest of 1 large orange

Sauce

3 tbsp orange juice

50g caster sugar

50g dark chocolate

Method

1. Heat oven to 180/160 fan/gas 4. Butter and line a loaf tin. Mix together the all the cake ingredients and beat together until light and fluffy.
2. Spoon mixture into tin and bake for 30-40 mins until golden brown and firm to touch.
3. Meanwhile, heat the orange juice and melt the sugar together. Once cake is cooked, pierce top with skewer several times and pour orange mixture over the top.
4. Leave in tin to cool then remove and place on cooling rack to cool completely.
5. Once cooled, melt chocolate in microwave and drizzle over top of cake. Leave to set.
6. Cut and enjoy =)

Mars Bar Rice Crispie CakesMars

These are possibly THE MOST delicious snack IN THE WORLD. And they are so simple to make!!!! I love them as do my family and my partner! And now I am going to share the recipe with you!

Ingredients

3oz Butter

3 Mars Bars

3oz Rice Crispies

200g Milk Choc

Method

1. Melt the butter and mars bars in the microwave (this will still be slightly lumpy as the centre of the mars bars doesn't melt particularly well)
2. Mix in the rice crispies
3. Place in a rectangular dish and place in fridge to cool
4. Meanwhile, melt the chocolate in the microwave.
5. Once cooled pour the melted chocolate over the rice crispies.
6. Place back in the fridge and cool till chocolate is hard
7. Cut and enjoy!!!!

Choccie Brownies

There is only one word for these. AMAZING!!!!

I only have one person to that for these and that is Nicola Lombardi (Nom! The Baking Blog). I used the recipe she placed on her blog and they came out perfectly.

They were wonderfully chewy, just how I like my brownies, and have lasted longer than most things I've made before!

Even my picky partner likes them and that's saying something!!!!!!!!!