- Cupcake
- Piping bag with icing
- Sugar cubes covered in black gel food colouring
- Black liquorice
- Red sour liquorice
Last week Friday my boyfriend was invested into the Scouts.Basically into the adult version of the Scouts.To celebrate this I made Campfire Cupcakes for all the other Scouts. The equipment that I used: Step 1: Using the piping bag pipe a simple swirl onto the cupcake and put a pre-cut circle of green fondant onto the middle of the cupcake. Step 2: Place two sugar cubes onto the green circle just like charcoal. Step 3: Place two red and two black liquorices on opposite sides. The red looking like flames and the black looking like logs. Step 4: Hand out the cupcakes and let them enjoy. When I came back to pick up my boyfriend the cupcakes were devoured.
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Welcome to Part Two of my Art of Baking lesson. In this blog I make the buttercream icing I used to decorate this delicious cake. Step 1: Get all the ingredients together. Step 2: once the cake is cool place it on the plate or board on which you are ging to serve it. Step 3: Mix the icing using the butttercream method and pt about half of it as a filling. I uses just under half because you need more for the sides of the cake. Step 4: Place the second cake on top of the first. Pressing it down slightly. Ice the sides and the top with the rest of the icing using a spatula. You can use a breadknife but I find the spatula creates a smoother finish Step 5: Decorate the cake any which way you like. I just used sen colures vermicelli and some fondant flowers that I made previously.
I recently discovered the Yuppie Chef Online School. I am currently doing the course The Art of Baking and am loving it. I have learnt so much. The first lesson was on baking a cake. I immediately went and made the first lesson. Step 1: Get all the ingredients and tools together. I learnt that it was easier to do this. And the recipe goes so much quicker. What also do is as I'm finished with the ingredients I pack them away just in case I left out an ingredient. Step 2: It is important to prepare the baking sheets before you start putting the ingredients together because the batter needs toy go into the oven as son as it is mixed. Step 3: Creaming the butter and sugar is very important in order to havce a nice creramty cake. Step 4: Sifting the drty ingredients mean that the batter becomes nice and light. Step 5: I learnt a very important lesson. When putting the flour and eggs it is better to put them in the creamed mixture at intervals. Step 6: Once the batter is mixed put the cdoffee in but remember to mix it ibn with water before adding it to the batter. Step 7: Pour the batter into the baking tins and spread it even with ta spatula. Step 8: Once baked take the cake out
My cousin loves baking and lately she has been getting these Dora the Explorer cooking magazines. They are so awesome because they make healthy recipes that are simple for children to do without much help from an adult. Step 1: Take all the leaves off the strawberries. Step 2: Wash the strawberries. Just watch your children because Tehillah ( my cousin) took about 10 minutes to wash them. Step 3: Mash the strawberries with a fork. Or you can chaet and use a potato masher or you can be even more of a cheat and use a blender Step 4: Once the strawberries are mashed add caster sugar and mix. Step 5: Then add the plain yoghurt and stir really well. Step 6: Now for the fun part. Stirring the Sundae. Make sure that it is stirred very well and most importantly make sure that there is no spillage. Children tend to go overboard whern stirring. Step 7: Divide the sundae into cups for the guests. It might get a bit messy but let the child divide it beacuse theyt learn sharing and they get to have fun as well. Step 8: Hand out the Strawberry Sundaes to the guests and let them enjoy.
I am loving this Weigh Less recipe book I got. The recipes are so easy and everyone just loves them. This week I made the Swiss Roll Step1: Sift the flour and salt Step 2: Seperate the eggs. First beat the egg whites until stiff and then beat the egg yolks in the egg whites. Step 3: Freshly squeeze a lemon for the lemon juice. I prefer to use fresh lemon juice but you can use bottled lemon juice if you want. Step 4: Gradually add the lemon juice, sugar and essence. I used pineapple essence because I hate being boring with plain old vanilla essence. Step 5: Take the sifted flour and in thin layers fold it. When I first read the recipe I thought that it would be a waste of time but when I did it I found it was so much easier because the flour never went into lumps. Step 6: Once the batter is nice and smooth pour it into a prepared baking tray and bake. Just be careful because the cake bakes quickly. Step 7: Once baked spread the filling and roll. Step 8: I like decorating my swiss roll but if you like you can leave it plain. I had some icing leftover from a birthday and I just used that up.
This week I chose a Weigh Less recipe. It looked so delicious and simple I decided to try it. Step 1: Sieve the dry ingredients and add the butter. Step 2; Rub the butter with your fingertips until it becomes fine like breadcrumbs. Stp 3: Mix the wet ingredients together. Step 4: Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and mix the wet ingredients till a dough consistency. Step 5: Roll the dough out on a floured surface. Step 6: Cut out the scones. I just used a glass but you can use anything. Then place on a greased baking sheet and bake at 200 degrees celsius for 14 minutes. Step 7: Once brown take out the oven, Immediately serve or leave to cool.. Step 8: Decorate them with butter, jam, cream, cheese or whatever your heart desires. Step 9: Serve to your excited guests. This recipe was really simple and so easy. If you want to view the recipe <CLICK HERE>
My Nana has been pestering me for ages to make some Buttermilk Rusks so I went and bought all the ingredients and made my first atte,pt at Buttermilk Rusks. Step 1: Melt the butter. I used the microwave to melt the butter instead of the stove I found it easier. Then you add the sugar, salt and buttermilk. Step 2: Sieve the self raising flour and baking powder. Step 3: Add the eggs to the butter mixture. Step 4: Stir the butter mixture and flour mixture. Step 5: Knead the mixture until it is nice and smooth. Step 6: Make the dough into balls and place it in a aking tin together. Step 7: Bake in a moderate oven till golden brown. Leave to cool. Step 8: Once cool place on a baking tray and dry out in the oven at 100 degrees celsius till nice and hard. Step 9: Take out the rusks and serve them warm or leave them to cool. Step 10: Watch as your guests enjoy these lovely homemade rusks. I loved making these rusks. Such a simple recipe and very delicious. If you guys have any ideas on what I can try make next please let me know,
This month is World Hunger Relief Month so I decided to make a hungry emoticon cupcake. I thought they were very cute and yummy. What you need for these cupcakes are:
Step 1: Ice the cupcake yellow. I used yellow because that is the general colour of emoticons. Step 2: I made a white circle out of fondant and just stuck it on the wet icing. Then used a little bit of icing to stick my fruit jelllies on the eyes. Step 3: I took my Sour Roo and shaped it into a half a circle. I realised that I had to hold it a while because they went back to the normal shape and I wanted the smile effect not a grumpy effect. I was quite impressed at how cute these World Hunger Relief Month Hungry Emoticon Cupcakes turned out. I loved making these and they turned out very cute. Please comment and tell me what you would like to see me make next week.
This week I am going to show you how I made a Farm Animal Cake. I had an order for this cake and was quite excited to try and broaden my experience. The first step was making the animals. I had a bit of help with the pig because I found an awesome tutorial on YouTube. The other three animals I just used my cousin's toy animals as models. She was very interested in what I was doing but refused to taste the fondant. I think she thought I was making toys out of it. I am not going to go into detail with how I made the animals because it was a whole lot of experimenting but I did learn a lot by making these farm animals. The next step was the actual cake. I made a nice flat cake. Used chocolate icing for the ground and for the grass in their pens I just used a simple star tip. then for the fences I used wafers. Unfortunately I had to cut the wafers in half and it looked very cute. Just like a real fence. Then I placed my farm animals in their pens and I must say they liked their new home. Of course you can't forget the Happy Birthday on the cake. The boy loved his cake and his mom was very happy with the cake. I enjoyed making this and can't wait for a new challenge
This week's blog is on how I made Sour Bill Cupcakes. First I made green lemon flavoured cupcakes. The next step was to make green icing. This time I decided to make a royal icing since I had never tried it. I iced the cupcakes till they were nice and smooth. I had previously made blue eyes and have never used them and I thought to myself that this will be a perfect opportunity to use them. I just put the eyes on the iced cupcakes before they dried. I rolled out some green fondant and used a flower cookie cutter and cut off the petals to use as eyelids. I placed the eyelids over the eyes to make them look droopy just like Sour Bill. I used a toothpick and some black gel food colouring to make different mouths. My brother wasn't very excited that I made some of the faces happy. Everyone at the party loved them. I love new challenges so if any of you are reading this and have a challenge for me please let me know.
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