What a right boob...

I was asked to make these cakes by a family friend for her to give to a lady she knew who had had breast cancer.  I don't think they really need much more of an introduction...

Cookie Monster!

I've seen these cupcakes a few times on the internet in my many hours spent looking at different cupcakes and so on a rainy Saturday I decided to try them for myself. Everyone who has ever watched Sesame Street should be able to recognise these cakes as The Cookie Monster! The cake itself was a chocolate sponge with crushed Oreo biscuit in the mix to make it extra chocolatey and the icing was plain buttercream with colour added.  His eyes are made from white chocolate buttons with chocolate chips 'glued on' and in his mouth sits a Maryland cookie:

Jubliee celebration

I know there were many people baking cakes for the Jubilee celebrations and I was one of them! I ended up making three lots of edible goodies with a Jubilee theme and I'm about to showcase two of them.

First up the Jubilee tray-bake; a lemon infused sponge covered in scrummy buttercream and piled with berries in the celebratory colours:

The next Jubilee inspired baking I did was to make some cupcakes for my friends party.  They were lemon flavoured cupcakes topped in coloured buttercream and adorned with a gold crown.  They went down a treat:

My birthday cake

A while ago now I saw a photo of a cake somebody had liked on Facebook and knew that I had to try it! This cake is easy to do once you have the technique of piping roses down to an art form.  It's simple yet so so effective.  The inside is just plain sponge with butter cream between each layer:

Carrot cake

There were two birthdays in the office this week (mine being one of them) and my colleague asked if I would make him a cake for the office and requested a carrot cake.  Carrot cake has to be one of my favourite kinds of cake:

A Medley of cupcakes

 So my housemate was going to visit family last weekend and wanted to take some cakes.  Her dad loves baking and so I thought I would create a little selection for her.  The cakes are all just plain vanilla sponge but the icings were; white chocolate and strawberry, mint and chocolate chip, plain with Maltesers on top ones with a 'rocky road' style topping:

Birthday cupcakes

These were made for one of the girls at work recently for her birthday.  I'd made ones similar to this before and she loved them so much.  They're surprisingly easy to make but look stunning: