A Balanced Diet is a piece of cake in both hands !! Well, thats what we like to think!!
So this week we decided to try and make some fancy little cupcakes.
Heres a simple recipe to follow if you're like us and are not a dab-hand in the kitchen :
Ingredients
To make 12 cupcakes
110g/4oz butter or margarine
110g/4oz caster sugar
2 free range eggs
110g/4oz self -raising flour
1-2 tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
Ingredients for Buttercream Icing
140g/5oz butter
280g/10oz icing sugar
1-2 tbsp milk
a couple of drops of food colouring
Here goes -
- Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/180C/350F
- Mix the butter and the sugar together.
- Beat the eggs into the mixture and mix in the Vanilla extract
- Add the flour and a little milk until mixed together thoroughly
- Devide into paper cases and pop into the oven for 10- 15 minutes
- Check they are cooked all the way through
- Leave to cool down
- To create the icing beat the icing sugar and butter together
- Add a little milk until smooth
- Add food colouring
- Pipe onto cupcakes and add decoration.
Heres some we made earlier -
We were very lucky girls this weekend, because thanks to Marie Curie (http://www.mariecurie.org.uk/) we got to go to the Grand Designs Live Show.
Grand Designs Live is a giant adult play ground, full of goodies for your home and garden. We had a ball roaming the Excel Centre finding all of our favourite things.
Here are a few of our favourite finds from the day:
The Chocolatier - A niche by Aneesh (we loved their tagline) (http://www.the-chocolatier.co.uk/) Chocolate that is cream, butter, egg and gelatine free but tastes amazing! We tried a bit of the salted caramel and bannana chocolate and it was amazing!
The kitchen section - we dreamed about cabinets and cool gadgets for a kitchen that we don't own. We also made friends with salesman Phil and enjoyed telling him all that was wrong with his kitchen display (they were storing tins in their fridge -who does that??)
The TV section was pretty cool, and definately a section for boys it was full of men trying to convince their other halves that a projector screen was just what they needed for their living room.
Loopy Lisa Fudge was another favourite (we spent a lot of time in the food section) her fudge is amazing we bought the Vanilla Fudge and ate it all before we got home!!! http://www.loopylisasfudge.co.uk/
J's Personal Favourite.
My personal favourite stand was "The Games Room Company". I love playing arcade games and I absolutely adore jukeboxes so this stand was my favourite. It had an amazing Jukebox that came with an iPod docking station too which means you can play your fav tunes along with the classics! I am definately saving my pennies to get one - just need to get a bigger flat!! (http://www.gamesroomcompany.com/)
T's Personal Favourite.
I absolutely loved the girly stand by the company "By Dusk". Beautiful Wallpaper, bed headboards, light features and hanging gems and jewels! My favourite piece has to be the heart shaped mirror you can see in the picture with the ruffled rim!! Gorgeous !!! Perfect for any room to complete a feature wall! Treat yourself at http://www.bydusk.com/
Thanks once again to Marie Curie we had a brilliant day!
Lots of Love
SGW xx
