Week ending 12th January 2014

A few more cakes, bread and biscuits this week.

I have managed a crusty white loaf, some oat and raisin cookies, some coffee cupcakes, some lemon cupcakes and my first attempt at pop cakes. I have to say the first stage of mixing and baking was easy enough, but I think maybe I need a better quality chocolate for the coating as the white in particular was very runny, or maybe leave it to cool down a lot more before attempting to coat the pops, although the milk chocolate was better in this respect and also the same brand so maybe I just need some more experimentation.......  I will put up a picture although the end result could be better :(

First the lemon cupcakes - they have lemon curd in the cake, a lemon butter-cream icing and some gold glimmer sugar to decorate

Next the coffee cupcakes decorated with coffee bitter-cream and topped with a malteser 

Next a nice crusty white loaf

Another batch of oat and raisin cookies

And finally the cake pops, first picture as they came out of the tin then the decorated ones - not as good as I would have liked, but as I said I will need to practice ;-)