Buttons and Birdies Biscuits

I had some new cutters and a mould from the International Cake Show in November and again haven't had chance to use them so when I decided to make some biscuits yesterday I used my new things to decorate them....

These great cutters are from Cakes By Bien and I love them!!

And this is the Wilton button and ribbon mould...

I made lemon biscuits and this is how I decorated them...

I think I would do some piping next time to tie the colours together, some brown dots on the bird ones and white dots on the bird house . Also I need to find a better way of using the Wilton mould as I found it really difficult to get the buttons out in one piece and then fiddly to cut around them. Any suggestions on how to use them properly please let me know :-)

Vanilla Cherry Blossom Cupcakes

I got a few new books for Christmas...

They all have some really great ideas to try and I'm sure when I have the time or occasion I will try as many as I can. Until then I have only tried one idea from the Lola cupcake book.

The recipe for the Vanilla Cherry Blossom cupcakes caught my eye as I love cherry flavoured things and I loved the way they had decorated the cute cupcakes.
Unfortunately the recipe calls for Morello cherry jam which I couldn't find in the local supermarket so I did improvise with some black cherry jam. The resulting flavour wasn't that cherry-ish so next time I'm going to make sure I find the right jam.

Christmas Cakes!

This year I made 6 cakes (in October!) which I fed with brandy about once a week to be ready in time for Christmas. I had 4 different designs to decorate the cakes and this is how they turned out...

Snowflake Cupcakes

My little sister came home from school one day before Christmas with a paper plate and asked me to help her make some cakes for the school Christmas fayre. We discussed a few ideas but settled on cupcakes as they are easier to hand out and we decided we definitely wanted to use edible glitter as everyone needs some sparkle at Christmas!
We used silver foil cupcake cases for some shimmer, vanilla cupcakes and buttercream with fondant snowflakes and glitter to decorate.