Sunday, 8 August 2010

hen party cupcakes

 
the cupcakes
vanilla cupcakes topped with vanilla buttercream, decorated with hand cut fondant flowers, butterflies and heart sprinkles

Saturday, 17 July 2010

Wednesday, 14 July 2010

Wednesday, 12 May 2010

whoopie pies!


Expanding the menu at helloisittea.com ...

These cookie-cake hybrids are amazingly delicious, and though not as beautiful as the glorious cupcake, I am looking forward to experimenting with flavours and decorations.  


a dozen roses cupcakes


buttertfly 1st birthday cake & cupcakes

 
 

Wednesday, 28 April 2010

daring bakers: sussex pond, an english pudding


The April 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Esther of The Lilac Kitchen. She challenged everyone to make a traditional British pudding using, if possible, a very traditional British ingredient: suet.

Sunday, 11 April 2010

tile cake


peppermint swirl cookies


found these cookies during one of my seemingly endless blog hops...and can not for the life of me find the link, whoops!  but...the idea is fantatsic, the cookies themselves were not pepperminty enough for me and were also a little hard, for me but not for others who tasted them.

I am going to definitely take the concept and rework it again, I think I will use the chunky swirl shortbread recipe from the Green & Blacks Chocolate cook book and adapt it for this.  In fact the possibilities are quite endless so a day of cookie experiments may be needed :D  what larks!

easter baking - birthday berry gateau yogurt & bunny sugar cookies

an easter trip to devon, a place of cherised childhood memories...glorious sun chased away the rain after the first day so many long walks were had before heading back to our cosy cottage for some yummy food and fireside treats, divine.
 

Sunday, 28 March 2010

daring bakers: orange tian


 The 2010 March Daring Baker’s challenge was hosted by Jennifer of Chocolate Shavings. She chose Orange Tian as the challenge for this month, a dessert based on a recipe from Alain Ducasse’s Cooking School in Paris.

Oh are these yummy!  crumbly, buttery biscuit smeared with homemade marmalade, topped with marmalade swirled whipped cream and caramel soaked orange segments....  sounds like an m&s advert!



never having made the biscuit or the caramel before, this was a great challenge, I love layered desserts and this one is a keeper.