Sunday 13 April 2014

Happy baking!

Going to the Cake and Bake show in Manchester last weekend has inspired me to do some baking myself, having two weeks off from work is the perfect opportunity. 

I decided to make some vanilla cupcakes from the recipe book 'The Great British Bake Off: Learn To Bake' this book was given to me as a present a while ago, it's not my favourite cookery book as it's pretty basic but it's suitable for what I was baking today.

I happened to go into Aldi today and as part of this weeks Special Buys they had loads of baking goodies and I couldn't resist picking some up!
Flour 45p, royal icing £1.29, vanilla and chocolate ready icing £1.49 each, food colouring 89p each and mini eggs 59p 

I'm hoping to improve my cake decorating skills but here is the finished result from today (got loads of the stuff I bought left over for more baking!)
They were very yummy and I'm fairly pleased with the results, there will be lots of Easter baking coming up, hope you all have a great weekend!


4 comments:

  1. Those cakes look great! I can never get my cakes to look pretty... they always taste good though... so I guess that's something :)

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    1. Hello, thank you very much! Taste is one of the most important things... It's taken me a lot of practice for my decorating but there's still room for improvement haha x

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  2. Oh man those cupcakes look so good. I want to make some for Easter but I'm on a diet >.< cupcakes need to be healthy somehow!!!

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    1. Thank you! If only cupcakes were healthy... my diet would be going better if they were! Haha x

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