Mickey Mouse Ears cake



Mickey mouse ears cake

This turned out great, and I'm pleased as it's 150% better than when I last used red sugarpaste as I didn't totally cover it with cornflour when I dusted.

Tasted good (I've been told) - just need to practice tiered cakes a bit more as I might need to invest in proper supports for the next one...

Number one first birthday cake

Number One cake for Lily

I made this cake for Lily's first birthday. I was pretty happy with it, apart from it being really hard to ice an "odd" shaped cake.. Still - practice makes perfect I guess!

Coconut cream pie

Page 88 - Coconut cream pie

Another dark horse! Recipes like this are the reason that I like my little Hummingbird project - because I'd have never have made this by choice...

... But it was lovely - the coconut custard was so nice and I'm getting good at making pastry myself. I took it to Hannah's for dessert and think they liked it too. The custard even had mum's approval - shocking!

I spent quite a bit of money making this - as I bought a posh loose-bottomed pie tin and baking beans. So I best have lots more pie recipes to come!!!

Malted chocolate cupcakes



Page 84 - Malted chocolate cupcakes

WOW! This recipe was a bit of a dark horse, I thought it would be okay but it turned out to be super tasty! The malted chocolate frosting gave it a different flavour to the usual chocolate cupcakes, more subtle and actually nicer I think as sometimes chocolate cupcakes are little intense. The icing was lovely an smooth, and Maltesers on top were scrummy too.

As I'm writing this I'm actually trying to work out when I can make them again :-)

Apple and walnut cupcakes



Page 83 - Apple and walnut cupcakes

Another recipe that I made last year and have been hopeless at writing up!

Any recipe with the cream cheese frosting is bound to be a hit an the apples made this nice and soft. In all honesty I can't remember much more about my thoughts about making these at the time (hence why I need to remember to blog about my recipes as I make them!) - however they obviously weren't memorable for being amazingly good or awfully bad!

Blood orange cheesecake (to be re-visited)

I'm excited about this recipe as I love cheesecake and the orange on top I bet will be lovely.

HOWEVER...

It appears that blood oranges are only in season briefly in the UK - So I'll keep an eye out but think I might need to wait until January/February to make it.

Perhaps I'll have made all of the other recipes in the book by then!!!

Carrot and ginger cake

Page 79 - Carrot and ginger cake

I made this for dad's birthday as he loves carrot cake and thought he might like the ginger twist...

It was HUGE! In my opinion perhaps a bit too big for a single cake, but it was moist and so noone complained about the size. My only criticism is that I didn't grate the ginger finely enough and it was a bit stringy in texture. But noone else said that, only me!

A good variation on a carrot cake.