Birthday Treats

The Giant Cookie

On Thursday last week it was my brothers birthday and I wanted to bake him something special and tasty, so I thought I'll make him a giant chocolate chip cookie!

I used a recipe that made 20 cookies and put all the cookie dough into a pizza pan, lined with greaseproof paper. These cookies are so easy to make yourself! Why not try it for someones birthday?

 I then made some buttercream to pipe around the outside and also for the writing in the middle.

Party Ice Creams

My parents requested I made some cupcake ice creams for them, my brother, my boyfriend and me for Sunday (when my brother was visiting). So, eager to please, I made some more of the fantastic cupcake ice creams, but this time I covered them in lovely edible glitter!

I really enjoyed baking these and I thought the cookie tasted delicious! I need to work on my writing a bit, but I am slowly getting better!

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Ice Cream Cupcakes!

Deceivingly Tasty!

These little ice creams are cupcakes! I used a recipe from Carol Deacon's book that I got at the Cake International show to create these little beauties! I am so please how they turned out!

 

The cake mixture is a plain madeira cake which has been flavoured separately with lemon, peppermint and vanilla to give different ice cream flavours. The cake mixture is then poured into the ice cream cups, which are covered in foil to stop them burning in the oven.

The pinky ones are vanilla flavoured sponge with strawberry jam buttercream. The white ones are lemon and vanilla sponges with lemon and vanilla buttercream. The mint coloured one is mint flavoured sponge and mint choc-chip buttercream! For the domed ones I just used a palette knife, but for the 'Whippy' ones I used a giant open star nozzle!

This cupcake is my favourite! Just in case you were wondering, they also taste really amazing! This is defiantly my favourite bake so far! They are quite easy to make and you can be really creative with them as you could use any sponge mix and any buttercream/topping you want.

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