Baking Baking Baking

I wanted to share my thoughts on baking

I am a terrible baker, I love baking but I'm not very good. I burn cakes and overcook cupcakes, I under fill patty pans and my cakes come out dry and not very appetising.

There will come a time one day that I may succeed but until then its back to trial and error, much to my taste testers disgust.

I find baking very relaxing, stir here, whisk there, fold in and pour out, There is nothing I would love more than being able to bake a spectacular tasting cake, this would make me a happy chap.

It is now time for me to get back to reading my cupcake murder mystery and dreaming about marshmallow fondant.

Until next time

Keep Calm and Eat Cupcakes :)

Rainy

Christmasy Cup e Cakes!!

Hi Everyone!

Just wanted to share my Christmas cupcakes, I did these for my daughters dance presentation night and was really hoping they would be a hit....and they WERE!!

This is a basic vanilla cupcake stuffed with peppermint buttercream and topped with edible Christmas trees to add a touch of Christmas magic I decided to use some edible glitter to finish them off.

I really enjoyed making them and I have to admit the photos don't do them any justice but please enjoy!

Keep calm and eat cupcakes

Love

Rainy

Things that make you go MMMMMMMM

The last two weeks I have been battling with urge to cook and bake and decorate and EAT!

I have all these amazing ideas for christmas decorating and baking there is just no time to do it all my baking schedule is looking like this:

Tuesday - Cupcakes for dancing breakup party, my idea initially was to do a ballet slipper slab cake or some tutu cupcakes but sadly due to time constraints I had to change my mind. Now I am in the middle of prepping mini christmas trees cupcakes decorated out of snowflake sugarpaste and stacked up to create a christmas tree, Im adding a touch of edible blue glitter with some silver sugar balls and they should look divine.
 (heres hoping)

Sunday - I have a first birthday which I have just sadly found out I cant attend due to our annual extended family christmas day, I promised I would make a very special fairy tale themed cake, very girly was the instruction. This I haven't made my mind up about exactly what this is but photos will be posted later on and I will share my thoughts later.

Sunday - On top of the birthday cake I did say I would do a christmas cake for the family, my idea was to use the 3 different sized pudding tins to create a rounded christmas tree and decorated accordingly, this should look lovely as I wanted to create a very simplistic classy looking tree that wasn't over the top but was eye catching.

On top of all that I am making christmas bark as a christmas present for my aunts and uncles as something a little different, every year I give them token gifts which quite frankly are useless and a waste of money, so I figure this year I will cook a range of delectable treats.  Who doesn't get the odd surprise visitor during this busy time of year and its great to have something scrumptious on hand to offer with a cup of tea.

I will endeavour to up load photos as soon as they are taken to share with you what I create over the silly season.

Till next time

Keep calm and eat cupcakes

Love

Rainy

Things that make ME happy, inspired by Half Glass Full!

The things that make me happy in life

• Hot fresh scones with melting butter
• the way my daughter jumps up and hugs and kisses me when shes really happy and excited
• being kissed on the forehead when I'm sick by my 4 year old
• one of my rainydaze cakes completed and sitting on the table longing to be looked at
• fresh cut grass smell
• waking up on the morning of something exciting and remembering why I had trouble getting to sleep
• finally understanding something
• cup of coffee steaming on a cold day
• hearing children laugh in a playground
• being told "I love you" by my daughter and husband
• knowing that my dreams of having my dream family, house and life are not as far away as they used to be!

I'd like to thank @fayc for inspiring me to write this blog :)
http://faycglasshalffull.blogspot.com/2011/11/random-stuff-which-makes-me-happy-part.html

The place where babies are showered!

My wonderful old boss Brooke is having her first baby and me being me, I LOVE a good baby, so I felt I had no choice but to sing it from the roof tops in the form of a cake.

With her up coming baby shower looming I had to decide pretty quick smart on a theme and after wild thoughts of ducks in baths and baby dragons hatching out of eggs I finally came up with what I thought to be the perfect idea.  I was given the instructions from the host, instruction 1: There is no theme, Instruction 2:We don't know what the baby is. hmmmm so I need to make a cake that is unisex and doesn't cater to any specific theme GREAT this was right up my alley!

I have to admit my timing wasn't perfect my husband forgot to tell me we where attending a family birthday party the night before 45mins away from home and I would be dropping him off at work (night shift) and picking him up at 5am the next morning. To top it off I wasn't able to make my perfect chocolate cake the night before as planned so I made it at 6am the next morning praying that it would cool in time.

as the time slipped away I started to panic my sugar paste wasn't hardening as fast as I had hoped, my cake wasn't cooling quick enugh and my prebought butter cream from the month before smelled kinda funky.

First job in my damage control was ditching the premade butter cream, following crumboss's blog post and video I very proudly made my very own batch of amazing tasting Swiss butter cream. (Crumbbss your my hero this you already know but seriously you saved my tail!) I will NEVER EVER go back to buying premade crap again.

The cake I just had to roll with, as I started constructing everything I realised I wasn't going to pull this one off as well as I had hoped, I have taken this experience as a learning curve and an experience I hope never to go through again.

I was quite proud of my cake even with its obvious imperfections, I think I am proud because once again I have shown myself that yes I am good at something other than eating chips in front of the telly!

Until next time

Keep calm and eat cupcakes!

Rainy



Alice in Wonderland!

I promised my twitter followers a months ago I would post the photos and info from my daughters birthday bash on my new blog :) So here it is!

My day started at 3am when I got up and continued on with the cake and decorations, I will NEVER EVER do that again, everything went well and I had a good friend and her daughter come by early in the morning and continue setting everything up which was a fantastic help!!

The party itself was very good and all the kids had a wonderful time there was a small incident with my husband and the ONE job i gave him of being in charge of running the games and the music, first incident was that he didn't have any music and as it turned out I cleaned so well I couldn't find any either, the second was once all the kids had arrived and we were ready to start he decided he had stage fright and didn't want to run any of the games....he told me this while I was holding a tray of burning hot pin wheels and making a coffee for a parent NOT HAPPY! :D

After all that the kids had a nice time and my daughter was very proud to have all her friends there to celebrate.

"Get the net"!

Hi!
I am very very excited to be starting as blogging is something I have wanted to do for many a year.

Basically this is just my way of expressing myself through fashion and "young" mothering something I have been able to combine over the last four years and strangley enough have been able to make it work.

Keep checking in

Cheers

Rainy