Baking For Mums' Birthday ox

 

Hey Guys!!

 

It was my Mums' Birthday on Monday so as a surprise I thought I would bake her a cake and some cupcakes to go with it. I haven't baked in a while which I really need to start doing more of as I really do love baking a lot. I did try to do a Rainbow sponge but it didn't go quite to plan so I baked up the usual Vanilla sponge that I've done before. You can have a look at the recipe HERE if you'd like to have a go.

 

As I had to make 24 cupcakes and 2 sponges I multiplied the ingredients by 4, so what I used was:

 

Butter 440g

Caster Sugar 440g

Eggs 8

Vanilla Extract 4tsp

Self Raising Flour 440g

Milk 4-8tbsp

 

The first thing I did was cream the Butter and Caster Sugar together. I always love how it looks when its creamed.

 

I then added in the 8 Eggs and mixed it together.

 

I then added in the 4tsp of Vanilla Extract, this is what makes the sponge taste so nice and the smell when baking is gorgeous.

 

Now normally I just weigh the flour and put it in, but this time I actually remembered to sift it. Then I mixed it altogether, I must say I have an electric mixer which made it easier.

 

Then I added 8tbsp of Milk in and that was the cake mix already. I had already turned on the Oven to 180 degrees so it warmed up as I made the cake mix.

 











I then spooned out mix into 24 cupcake cases and then weighed out half of the leftover mix into my cake tin. I had to bake one sponge and 12 cupcakes first, then bake the other sponge and 12 cupcakes while the first lot was cooling.

 

I actually forgot to take a picture of the sponge, silly me, but it looks just like the cupcakes just a bigger circle.

 

I had already made up Buttercream Icing and stored it in the fridge ready to decorate. I iced all the cupcakes and put on the rice paper pictures, you can get these HERE. I then iced one half of the sponge and put jam on the other half and put them together. I then rolled out the fondant icing, which I need to practice with a bit more as I can't quite get it decent enough, then put the cake topper on. You can get this topper HERE.

 

I hope you enjoyed this post.

 

See You Soon!! 



 

Easter Nest Cake and Cupcakes

Hey Guys!!!

 

Today I thought been as though Easter is on its way I would do a cake that was based around Easter. I was thinking of doing a 'nest' but wasn't sure how to do it until I seen a picture somewhere (can't remember where) of someone who had done it with cornflakes and chocolate. So here is how you do it :)

 

All you need is:

Cornflakes

Milk Chocolate

Mini Eggs

Chicks

 

To start I broke up both chocolate bars and put it into a blue bowl, I did this as I was waiting for the water to heat up in the saucepan. Once the water had heated up enough I tipped the solid bits of chocolate into a metal bowl to melt in :)

 

 

It didn't take to long for the chocolate to melt, but while it did melt I tipped some cornflakes into the blue bowl ready to mix with the chocolate. I didn't weigh out the cornflakes, I just tipped in enough that there wasn't any chocolate left over.

 

 

To make the nest is pretty simple you just build up layer up on layer of cornflakes until you have a mound, then just shape it into a nest shape :)

 

 

Once you have done that you can then add the mini eggs and chick. I made a bit of a dip in the top so the eggs will sit nicely in :)

 

 

What was good about this was I had enough left over to make 4 cupcakes :)

 

 

I hope you enjoyed this post :)

 

Are you going to be making anything Easter themed?

 

If you want to try out this and take pictures you can either tag me in them on Instagram at @vikki_hale or use #EasterCakes

 

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Baking: Heart Shaped Cake

Hey Guys!!

 

So thanks to my sister posting about her brownies she baked, I really wanted to bake a cake, I love baking anyway but it just really made me want to bake :)

 

I used my usual recipe which you can go over and try out HERE

 

All you need is:

 

110g Self Raising Flour

110g Caster Sugar

110g Butter/Marge

1-2tbsp Milk

1tsp Vanilla Extract

2 Free Range Eggs

 

 

Silly me didn't take any photos while I was mixing it :( but I did take a photo of the mix when I put it into the moulds :)

 

 

I put this in the oven on Gas Mark 4 and baked it for roughly 15-30 minutes to make sure it was baked all the way through. Once I took it out and let it cool before I put jam on the bottom layer and then put the top layer on :)

 

 

To decorate the cake I used:

 

Chocolate Fudge Icing

Gold Shimmer Spray

Glitter Sugar

Pink Icing Pen

 

 

I covered the whole cake in the chocolate icing, I must say in the pictures it looks like a big cake but it is actually only small and is enough for 2 people :) Once I finished the chocolate icing, I then sprayed the whole cake gold and it looked so nice and shiny :) then I put a bit of glitter sugar on and wrote a little message on it with my pink icing pen and this was the finished product :)

 

 

I just love how metallic it looks and I must say it tastes really delicious, though I think I may have put to much jam in the middle but still it tasted gorgeous :)

 

I hope you enjoyed this post and I'm hopefully going to do some more baking next week :)

 

See You Soon!!