This is what my baking is all about: family. I love baking for my family and in this case with my family! I was so happy when my YOUNGER brother joined me in the kitchen to make red velvet cupcakes. I have so much love and respect for him, he has already achieved such big things in his short life, and will hopefully continue to do so. I can always rely on Steve to eat my baked goods, I suppose when you do the amount of exercise that he does there is no worry about putting on weight!! I love baking for Steve, he is so appreciative and complimentary and makes me feel like I've done something really special!
I made these beautiful morsels for the youngest cousin's 21st birthday. The colour scheme was white and peach, thankfully Wilton food colour gels actually had a colour called peach! But even with the peach gel colour it was still a little tricky getting the right tone. I was so proud of how they looked, all dressed up in their own little lace frocks ready for a night out, pity they didn't get very far...
Once again, not great pictures but what can you do when your photographer is on holiday!
I made this cake for a little boy's first birthday, I know it's not your typical children's cake, but I am really proud of how it turned out. I had so much fun colouring all the batter and splodging it in layers. If you're wondering what those weird caterpillar/sausage decorations are... they are Dr Seuss trees from "oh the places you'll go"... of course!I so wish I could have been there for the cake cutting moment when the rainbow was revealed!
So not the best photos, but my photographer is currently galavanting about Europe so I have to make do with my point and shoot camera. This is a 60th birthday cake I made for a family birthday. I started colouring the icing with raspberries, so that I didn't need to use as much red colour, also to give it a better flavour. I learned a big lesson with this red colour, the secret is to colour the icing pink first, then add red.
