It was a nightmare for this blog- not because my computer broke or a rabid monkeys stole my keyboard.
No it was worse.
My oven broke.
I know, I know, It was tragic. We were ovenless for a whole 3 weeks. But now we have a BOOOOOTTTIFFUULLL shiny new one :) shame, i've only got another month in this house, I wish i could run away to my new house with this new oven. But anyway.
We recently had a garden party to prematurely celebrate the Queen's Jubilee as well as a kind of celebratory graduate party... So i thought it would be a perfect time to bake some patriotic cakes. However, as I was just putting the finishing touches to my project for uni as well as setting up an exhibition, I had minimal time to be creative and serve up an original recipe, so I baked recipes o ut of a book to save time- however, they were things that I haven't made before :) so it was still very exciting.
I decided to make:
Raspberry Trifle Cupcakes (Cake Days- Hummingbird Bakery Book)
and
Melting Moments (The Great British Bake Off Book- Mary Berry)
I will let you know now that I was so strapped for time and energy that I didn't actually get to buttercream and fill my melting moments, so they were a bit of a challenge to eat (imagine eating a jacob's cracker with no water) but nevertheless, they were definitely melty! But err, yeah next time I should really cream them up. Lazy me.
Oh and kudos to my lovely big sister buying me these union jack cupcake cases :)
They were probably the only things that had me itching to be patriotic (for once) teehee.
Here's some happy pictures documenting the experience:
filling the cupcakes- jam, then raspberry, then CUSTARDDDD, then cake, then MORE CUSTARRRD! (then another raspberry)
photos started to get a bit rubbish now as it started to rain. Typical.
Sad cupcake looks onwards at our wet bunting.
