Week ending 3rd August

Busy day baking on Friday - this week I made some more cherry bakewell cupcakes, quite a favourite now, plus some butterfly cakes - first attempt at these, just made some plain vanilla ones and used some chocolate butter-cream plus some chocolate buttons to decorate, unfortunately there were more buttons in the packet than I needed so I just had to eat them as I couldn't let them go to waste ;-). I also made some gingerbread men, these are so far undecorated as my 2 year old grandson is here for the weekend and he is hopefully going to help with the decorating of these - maybe pics of the decorated ones later, and finally I made a banana and walnut loaf.

Cherry bakewell cupcakes first - not really very pleased with these this week although I can confirm they taste fine, just a little spready (if there's such a word) ....tried to tidy up the edges hence the crumbly edges

Butterfly cakes (for hubby's work place)

Banana and walnut loaf

and finally the undecorated gingerbread men 

I am going to spend a little while now looking through my book of 1000 cupcake recipes and Jo Wheatley, Mary Berry etc etc to get some inspiration for next weeks baking - might have a go at bread again too, try my hand at some granary rolls maybe, and I have yet to attempt a baked cheesecake..... watch this space

PS  some decorated gingerbread men