Shaped Pancakes

I love making pancakes for breakfast and I came across this nice idea on another blog. You make your usual pancake batter [I usually make thick pancakes] and place it in a squeezable bottle. You can then draw or write whatever you want with your pancakes. I surprised Little-N and my hubby with this the other morning and they were very happy.

Baking Cinnamon Rolls

On Monday the children made cinnamon rolls. Here are a few pictures of the activity. We used a bread machine to make the dough.

Cup Cakes and biscuits

Lately I've been spending more time baking. I think I'm addicted to decorating cup cakes and I'm looking for any excuse to make some. Here are a few pictures of my recent creations.

I made these cup cakes as a surprise for the 40th birthday of a teacher at school. As you can see the theme was pink and white. I wanted to come up with a variety of designs [as I try to have more fun]. The centre cupcakes are piped with coloured butter cream. The stars are cut out from fondant and letters piped on. Everyone loved the rose design. Apparently they DID taste as nice as they looked. Yum yum

I was experimenting with cookie cutters and techniques when making these biscuits. Each one was decorated differently.
I think the hearts look super cute.
This heart is made with a puzzle cookie cutter. Its so cool. We had to fiddle a bit to get the pieces fitting together.

These are a few more butter cream cup cakes.

A whole box of them going for a delivery.

I made lots of fondant flowers and added a little edible pearl for detail. I'll be storing them in a box and using them when needed.
And finally a chocolate cake that I helped my sister make. We covered it in butter cream and then decorated it with fondant pieces. I'm really getting into this cake decorating thing. There are a few cake decorating courses on near me and as soon as a find the time I'll enrol on one. The best thing about my baking addiction is I take everything to school and share it with the staff. That way I don't have to do all the eating and I make loads of friends!

Children In Need

Yesterday was the 'Children in Need' day. We arranged a sponsored dress up for the children at school to raise money. To make things a bit more tasty and to get a bit more money out of people I made these yummy Pudsey bear cupcakes. They sold out straight away. It was really fun making them, but took quite a long time! I think I have found myself a new obsession and I'll be making more cupcakes on the weekend for one of the teachers 40th birthday.

Simple Cup Cakes

Little-N's cousins will be coming to visit today so we've been busy making cupcakes.

Here's a really simple recipe for soft tasty cup cakes.

110g Sugar

110g Butter

2 eggs
110g Flour

1 tsp of baking power

1tsp of Vanilla sugar

Mix all ingredients and place in a lined cupcake tin. Cook for 20mins at 160'c.

We made simple icing from icing sugar and milk. Then sprinkled with hundreds and thousands.