Here are some cakes I did for my niece for her to take out to the dinner she was having with friends for one of their birthdays - she's 13 and eats out a lot more than I do sob.. They'd asked me for Oreo cakes and I decided to try putting an Oreo at the bottom of the muffin case before baking to see how that worked out. And it worked out really well! I also tried using coloured sugar rather than sprinkles to cover the top of the cake which makes it look like it's covered with little blue diamonds. All in all, very pretty :))

Next Wednesday on the stall:

After surviving the winter on the stall - hooray! I was so warm on the stall this week in the mild weather that I spent most of the day with just my top on (and trousers I hasten to add) - and doing lots of stodgy, comfort food cupcakes like sticky toffee pudding, peanut butter etc which help on a cold day; I'm changing to fresher spring flavours. So next week will be all about lemons, raspberries (not strictly a spring fruit of course but I feel we're all in danger of contracting scurvy if we don't have a fruit apart from apples), blueberries, for muffins, and rhubarb - yummy! I also want to practise using the grass tip for piping icing to make a little 'lawn' on a cupcake for flowers to sit on and it doesn't get much springier than that..

And, finally, I was going to post a picture of the Simnel cake but I took the photos with my phone and they turned out terribly (although the cake turned out beautifully I'm happy to say) even though I'd tied a pale yellow ribbon around the cake and, as far as I'm concerned - and I love all ribbons - the pale yellow is the best of all ribbons. But I'm making another one for a sweet old couple on Tuesday so I'll take a photo of that one with my daughter's camera if I can find it on her bedroom floor (the camera, not the cake).

So next week; photos of spring cupcakes and cakes will abound..