Sticky toffee... cheesecake

Mum and I have never eaten Christmas Pudding, we've always had something else for dessert on Christmas Day and this year I offered to make it! I really like cheesecake and saw this recipe in a Good Food Magazine and suggested it, I must say it was delicious and I would definitely recommend!

Christmas cupcakes

I LOVE Christmas, and I love cake so what could be better than some Christmas themed cupcakes? The decorations are just ready-made ones and I added shimmer as well. The icing on these cakes is marshmallow which is much lighter than butter cream but very sticky (!).

After Eights...

I might be ever so slightly addicted to chocolate mint flavoured things so these cupcakes seemed like an amazing idea to me. I made a basic chocolate sponge recipe and then topped the cakes with mint flavoured icing and an after Eight:

I know I haven't posted in a while but I've been busy with exams since December, though I am now finished for a while! So I'm going to put up several posts with photos of things I have made over the past few months!

Firstly; Oreo cupcakes! These were really yummy, I ground up Oreo pieces to put into the cake batter and icing. Definite chocolate heaven in a cupcake:

Chocolate orange cupcakes

My housemate had asked me to make her some cakes for an event she was going to and decided upon chocolate orange cupcakes. I am a big fan of chocolate orange, whenever somebody in my office has an orange I crave some! These cupcakes were topped in a cream cheese based frosting which I had to adapt slightly to be able to pipe as cream cheese frosting is notorious for going too sloppy and being hard to work with. Anyway they looked and tasted great so here are some pictures:

Baby shower cupcakes

So, a girl I went to uni with asked me to make her some cupcakes for her friends baby shower. The friend in question is having a little girl so of course the colour of choice was pink! I made plain vanilla cupcakes and iced them in baby pink butter-cream, to finish the cakes off I made little booties and dusted them with coloured lustre. This was the end result:

Sticky Toffee Cupcakes

Sticky toffee pudding is one of my all time favourite desserts so when I came across the recipe for sticky toffee cupcakes in the Hummingbird Bakery's 'Cake Days' book I had to make them and what better occasion than for bonfire night? These cupcakes are simply delicious and are exactly like a mini sticky toffee pudding topped in an ultra-light frosting: