Halloween Cupcakes
So I had a lot of time to spare a few days ago and thus, thought baking some cupcakes would be the best way to spend my time! I popped into Lakeland and purchased my first icing set, with all the different nozzles and got creative with different icing techniques.
The cupcakes themselves were made using a very simple lemon sponge recipe. I used lemon butter cream for the piped icing and the rolled icing is shop bought (purchased from Lakeland a few months ago).
I made these cupcakes using the 'grass' nozzle that came in my kit and just halved some rich tea fingers for the grave stones.
These were my favourite!
These two were made with rolled icing bases and black butter cream icing. I kind of just free-styled these ones!
Graveyard Cake
I made this cake from a recipe from BBC GoodFood, however, I didn't have a large enough tin, so I used two smaller tins and just sandwiched the two layers together with a white chocolate butter cream. I really enjoyed making the cake, but it was a bit of a challenge for me, as there's lots of different processes in order to get the end result.
The cake didn't turn out how I wanted it to look but it still tasted great! My little ghosts were supposed to be meringue but had to be iced instead (hence why they look a bit sad). I did (after many attempts) actually make some meringue but they went all soft and sticky. I heard this happens if its a humid/damp day outside, and this is Britain, so it was naturally raining!
The gravestones are chocolate covered rich tea fingers and iced with (runny) white icing. And the soil is double chocolate chip cookie crumbs (some cookies didn't make it to this process).
Next time I try this one I think I might use a different chocolate cake recipe, as it was very dry. And I would probably make the meringues and cake one day and decorate it the next, as it took a long time to make. :)
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