carrot cake muffins

I have no idea where I got this recipe from, but I'd obviously downloaded it from the printing. It's a carrot cake recipe which is high in oat & apple content, and very low in fat. It doesn't use the perennial vegetable oil, but half a cup of butter instead. Bad for you ? you decide. It has 2 eggs and one extra egg white which means it's lovely and light. Personally I enjoy something a bit heavier in the carrot-cake genre, but this is not a bad offering.
Frosting (icing) is a-la Nigella. You need to be generous on the lemon or lime juice tho' to offset the carrot and oat flavour.

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.

nearly there

cupcakes again

I have laboured very hard today. I was up at 06h20 with children, and went on to ice cupcakes, make fresh buttercream, and then deliver them to the Fun Day event at the church an hour before.
This evening I have made another two dozen cupcakes, one chocolate cake and coloured one big pot of red buttercream icing. I'm annoyed at myself for losing Janine Rose's buttercream recipe because it was superb, and the stuff I made today is too crystaline (I'm assuming the ratio of icing sugar to butter is too high). Will keep hunting.
Tomorrow I need to turn the chocolate cake into a Spiderman cake, and the cupcakes into red and blue spider-satellite things. I feel tired already, but by this time tomorrow I'll have my feet up.

half way through

eager little fingers

OK, so we've got to Friday and so far we've made wicked chocolate biscuits (Apple Publishing recipe), and Nigella's cupcakes/fairy cakes recipe last night. I decorated them with the blue liquid colouring mixed into the bog-standard butter cream icing. I have now decided that the liquid colouring is terrible - just like they told me at the cupcake decorating evening. It is such terrible quality. I ended up with blue-grey which you can't really fix. What a waste of icing! Thank goodness for "confetti" which Keith sprinkled ontop. I need to buy some colouring paste now and pronto! I have to make the cake & cupcakes tomorrow for the big day on Sunday.