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May 2018

Ideas

Not a sprinkle in sight

Don’t get me wrong, you can’t beat a good dollop of sprinkles, but sometimes it’s nice to do something a little different. Hiding in my drawer of sugar craft bits and pieces, I stumbled across a bikini mould that I hadn’t used in ages. This, I thought, would be the perfect cake topper for the cupcakes for my mum’s birthday.

The knack of using these moulds is to make sure you get a decent covering of icing sugar or cornflour right into the nooks and crannies of the mould and making sure your sugarpaste hasn’t been handled too much other wise you risk getting part of it stuck in the mould. Once they were free of the mould I then left for about 20 minutes just to firm up before placing on the cupcakes.

I can’t remember where the bikini moulds came from, but here’s a cheeky selection


Happy Birthday mould TheVanillaValley £6.95 plus shipping
Lips mould home sale_sky on Ebay £2.42
Wonder Woman mould WeLOVE3dprinting on Etsy £4.50
Skulls ArtycoUK on Etsy £7.50 (Sugar Skull) & £17.95 (skull)
Gamer mould The Craft Company £19.06 plus shipping
Cherries Kawaiikitchen on Etsy £4.21 plus shipping
Shoes TheVanillaValley £8.35 plus shipping

May 17, 2018 By
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Cakes and bakes

Carrot Cake

Somehow carrot cake makes me feel less guilty, I reason that perhaps I’m getting one of my five a day?? Either way, this recipe is really simple and makes a lovely, light cake.

Ingredients
400ml vegetable oil
400g gluten free plain flour
2 teaspoons xanthan gum
2 teaspoons gluten free bicarbonate of soda
450g golden caster sugar
5 medium eggs beaten
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 ½ tbsp. golden syrup
4 carrots grated

Preheat the oven to 160C and grease and line your tin, I used a square 20cm x 20cm.

Add the oil into a bowl and sift in the flour, xanthan gum and bicarb’ of soda, then add the remaining ingredients before stirring well. You should end up with quite a wet and thick mix.

Transfer to the tin and bake for about 40 mins or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean.

You can top this cake with a buttercream or cream cheese topping, or I just mixed up some icing sugar and water to a thick-and-still-a-bit-runny consistency. If you want to freeze do so before adding any topping.

May 16, 2018 By
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