Handmade lemon drizzle bee cake

Heeeeey Everyone!!

A couple of weeks ago, my sister (Figgy) and I were entrusted in baking our little baby cuzzy a birthday cake for his first birthday! I should point out now that my sister and her friend Lane are champion cake bakers, hence the important request made of them. I was more of a heavily involved assistant in this crafty-bakey adventure and had loads of fun making it! 

Figgy has made her own post about the bee cake but I thought I would put my own piccies up. They are eeeeever so slightly different you know! Tehe! 

Here's the bakey rundown:

It took many layers of cake...

to get a very special suprise black and yellow layered inside...

this is what black colouring in a cake mix looks like...

a little bit grey and yukky looking (but still tasty I promise!)

we used bright yellow colouring from Asda

and the rind of a few lemons in the mix...

using their juice mixed with icing sugar to pour into holes in the cake layers for a juicy moist lemon drizzle cake!

This is me adding the finishing touches....

After some rummaging in a kitchen drawer I found some suitable antennae! (bag fastener thingys!!)

Photo stolen from Figgy Lane's blog

TA DA!! The finished article! We were assured by the captive audience that it was delicious! I have to say it was pretty spesh! Even baby cuzzy had his first bit of cake 

Thanks for checking out mine and Figgy's baking efforts!! If you enjoyed that, you will definitely enjoy Figgy and Lane's blog as they are super duper at baking lovely cakes and they even like doing nails too. Take a look here: http://figgylane.blogspot.co.uk/  plus they have a few more piccies of the inside!!!

Wig Wam xx

Now for something different: bake-tastic times!!

Hey everyone!!


Today is a post to commemorate my recent baking adventures. NOw, I never said that my blog was strictly nail-related did I? But I reckon most of you out there appreciate a little baked sweet goodness to let this one slide right?


Since trying my first ever red velvet cupcake in my cousin's favourite cafe in Gramercy in New York, I have had an undying love (or more correctly, lust) for these tasty cakes. All the others I've tried in London have tasted nice. But that's it. Just nice. Not amazingly yummiliciously tasty which I think is the pre-requisite for any cake that makes your tummy say :)


Soooo to this end I tried making my own and this is what happened when I used the Hummingbird Bakery's recipe at 'Good to Know':

Bloody cute cupcake moulds from poundland

The sludgey tasty mix

TA DA! Cute heart cupcakes (no icing cos they were toooo hot at this point)

And my first attempt came out super yumsies, but I reckon from now on I will be ignoring cooking times for baked things. Cos they were in for way less time than the recipe said but they still weren't moist. Maybe it needs a secret ingredient or technique? Does anybody have good cupcake knowledge on this matter?


Wig Wam xx