Tuesday, 22 November 2011

with love and cheerfulness




A piped orange Chrysanthemum (the November birth flower meaning "with love and cheerfulness") is an appropriate addition to a birthday cake for Jen's aunt (in-law) who celebrated her birthday this month. Happy birthday Aunt H!

(vanilla sponge layered with a double helping of homemade sticky damson jam topped with the frothiest meringue frosting and piped with orange flavoured butter icing encircled with a silk ribbon)

Saturday, 5 November 2011

Let's raise a glass to that!

Strawberry daiquiri mini-cupcakes for a posh cocktail party - adults only, please!


(Mini sponge cakes moistened with strawberry-white rum syrup, filled with rum-soaked Scottish strawberries, top swirled with buttercream frosting that was just lightly tinted with even more strawberry-rum syrup, and decorated with a quarter strawberry and fresh lime zest.)