Here's the picture of my lovely vase filled with flowers. I got the orange roses from one of my children for Mother's Day and the tulips were from a birthday party that I did with a group of 11 year olds for a 'make, bake and decorate' party. We had a fantastic time, the girls made vanilla cupcakes and I gave them a choice of things that they could put in - it was easier to do it this way than to offer a huge range of different recipes. I took lemons, raspberry jam, Oreos and chocolate chips with me and, without fail, they chose Oreos AND chocolate chips! Lemon was rejected early on as being too healthy and jam has a bit of fruit in so that too was rejected so chocolate biscuits with extra choc chips was always going to be the winner :)

Then they decorated them with the usual array of vanilla buttercream icing, sprinkles, cut out butterflies and glitter! I'll post some photos when I have them.

For mother's day we went to London to visit my eldest son and for the first time in ages I didn't take a cake we took the one that Daisy's Spanish exchange student had brought with her as a present. She's from Zaragoza and it was a local speciality - a sort of danish pastry but dipped in sugar with extra nuts and chocolate, it was very good!!

This Wednesday on the stall I'm doing Banoffi Pie cupcakes (banana cupcakes with dulce de leche filling, vanilla frosting, chocolate sprinkles and banana chips on top), malted cupcakes with a malteser and chocolate spread filling, lemon cupcakes with lemon curd filling and one other which I haven't decided yet :) I'll post the photos when they are ready and waiting on Wednesday morning...