Football it is

blowing out the candles

This year for Zack's birthday he designed his own cake and I produced it. Entirely built on Victoria Sponge - both the main cake and the cupcakes - and then iced with the design in bright buttercream icing. He was thrilled. I guess it was an interpretation of football - a green "pitch" with cupcakes with black and white chevrons on them. He loved it, I guess I cut the grade :) #yippee

Quite a bit of baking went down in August

So our little brother turned 4! and we just had to bake him a chocolate cake - thank you Aunty Erin and the BBC for the delish recipe!

I had oodles of icing left over from various things, so decided to swirl them onto cupcakes and sprinkle them with a bit of happiness (orange & yellow sprinkles). not too shabby.

Here's a South African mainstay : melktert. It's really delicious. I used a recipe in a classic SA cookery book (Kook en Geniet) and they just AREN'T the way I remember them. I will have to hunt for another one and make them again! 's all there is to it

Does whatever a spider can

Zack's Spiderman Birthday Cake for the party. There, I've put it on the web. It represents hours of baking and icing. One thing I can say is that the colouring paste is a real winner - managed to get this indigo blue by being heavy handed with it. I did the black lines with the buy-in-a-tube variety which comes out very shiny. It was an efficient solution to the "black icing colouring" dilemma I was in. I'll definitely use it again.

Birthday Cup Cakes

Tomorrow is our godson, Alessio's, 3rd birthday. I'm making cupcakes. They don't need to be overkill as it's backup food and not the main feature. Looking forward to it though - wanting to be a wee bit creative. Will post creations, and comment on Sunday :)