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Toffee Crisp Required.

That is all.

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So this is how the mint chocolate aero bubble cupcakes turned out! Kirsty tested one she said it worked well. 

The aero bubbles inside the mix needed to be stirred in with the cake mix with a toothpick during baking. They also need to be baked on a low heat so the bubbles dont burn inside the mix. Burnt chocolate is the worst! 

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I feel like i'm just not supposed to have a job!

I'm practically in a coma at work, to say i hate my job is an understatement. I get that unemployment is at an all time high and i should be grateful to have a job, but jeez, i think the white knight got lost on his way to save me, maybe hes using the gps on an iPhone? 

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CAT CAKE,

This was made for an old work friends wife, his only requirements is that it had to have a cat and the number 30 on it.

Id never done a tiered cake before so thought id give it a try, its bloody hard! I had started to find that whenever i made sponge cake, the middle would rise higher, so id be left with a weird pyramid style sponge. I still have no idea why, i even tried putting less mix in the middle. 

It is very difficult to do a tiered cake if your sponge is not flat! This was a chocolate sponge cake, both the bottom and middle layers have chocolate fudge in the middle of them, the top piece is just solid sponge. 

Ive not mastered the art of white detailing on cakes yet, this is something i need to work on, which is why there are weird white spirals on it, i put a silver ball in the middle to hide my lack of talent...

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Trying to get some ideas for the mint aero bubbles cupcakes ill be making tonight. I love green icing its soo cute. Nom nom nom!

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Cupcakes for my Lover

My first test cupcakes for tumblr will be for Pete, my special man friend.

He just so happens to love mint chocolate and has been stuffing his face with mint chocolate aero bubbles recently. I'm gonna try and make some mint chocolate aero cupcakes! 

I figure i could make the chocolate sponge mix as normal, separate it into the cake cases, and put two or three of the mint bubbles in the case with the mix. I have no idea if this will work out, the bubble could cook too quickly and just burn inside the cake. I'm also curious to see if the mint will leak out into the sponge and make it have green hints in it. That would be awesome! 

I'm gonna ice the cakes with chocolate icing and grate some mint aero's on top to create green chocolate flakes. 

So thats my plan.... will let ya know how it goes :D

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This is my CSI Miami cake. It was made for my ex's sister for her birthday, it was a big family event so i wanted to make a good impression!

The cake is a chocolate fudge cake, with royal icing for all the decoration. I only had one day to make this, if i had longer i would have liked to have done more detailing, especially on the trees which were very difficult to support!

Overall i really enjoyed making this cake, it was the first cake i was proud of, i should really start a collection of crime scene cakes! Hmmm, something to think about! 

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This is another gaming themed cake for my room mate and best friend Kirsty. We both love Borderlands so i made her a ClapTrap cake!

Everything on him is ediable, this is a white sponge cake with a chocolate fudge filling. This took two days to make, most of my time was spent waiting for the food colouring to try so that i could paint more detail on top. I used edible pen for alot of the detail. 

All the icing on this is Royal icing, normally i would change the colour of the icing then decorate the cake, however because of the amount of detail needed, i kept the icing white while i decorated the cake, then painted over the top using food colouring. 

To make him look more metal like his character, i used edible silver shimmer dust! The wheel, arms and eye are pinned down using tooth picks, i did warn Kirsty about theses however she still let her dad nearly choke to death on them! Awesome :D

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This is the last cake i made for a lady i work with, it was for her sons birthday and hes quite fond of Mario so she requested a Toad cake for him.

This is how it turned out! This is a simple victoria sponge cake, so white sponge with double cream and raspberry jam in the middle. Its a massive cake as it needed to be cut up and fed to about 20 kids! 

The icing on top is Royal icing, its very easy to mould and change colour, alot of people use Marzipan for cake decorating, however as im allergic to nuts, i cant handle marzipan. I have also always planned that anything i make will be completely nut free.

I was quite happy with how it turned out and was a very simple design, although a few people have suggested it could also look like a lady bird, not sure if thats good or bad! 

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ROBOTS OR DINOSAURS?

Robots! They will take over the world and make it a better place :D 

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Tea and Tumblr.

So, I'm 24 soon to be 25, and i feel like a failure. 

I'm sure this is just an exaggeration but im not where i thought i would be by this age. In fact, according to my life plan im supposed to be married by my 25th birthday and considering i have 3 months left to achieve this... I'm thinking its not gonna happen!

I'm not actually living to my life plan at all, i have moved out though, with my best mate Kirsty, therefore i can now focus more on what i love to do, and that's Baking. 

I've always been a bit rubbish at everything, but baking seems to come naturally to me, it does sometimes end in disaster, but i still enjoy it. Id like to own a bakery/coffee shop at some point, but till then i shall practice making and decorating a wide range of cakes and will be using this blog as a way to document my attempts of learning some new skills and everyone gets a free cake when i open my shop ;)