Well it is bank holiday Monday. Enjoy…

I made reverse button moon cupcakes inspired by Thornton’s button moon icecream which is white chocolate icecream with strawberry chips. Cakes are strawberry sprinkles with white chocolate chips. I reckon Button Moon icecream would be better that way too.

The butter cream is plain old whipped cream vanilla butter cream. Classic.

Yum!

Starry’s back, back again, starry’s back, tell a friend.

Yes I found my camera lead so I am extremely happy to have pictures yay! AND look what I have to share with you….

See those sprinkles? They’re Dr Oetkers Barbie sprinkles. They were hard and not that tasty so not that impressed with those. Still they look pretty and the edible sugar was pretty!

From this you would assume I have masses of free time and stuff. Um, no… Work has been a bit manic and I have been very stressed :(. Baking is very theraputic though and with a lovely BF to help with the cleaning up (and eating) it’s even nicer. Works a bit of a sod of late so pretty things cheer me up. The cupcakes were for my moms birthday. Which was last Sunday, mothering Sunday for all you Americans. Take a look at the rest…

I didn’t take that photograph by the way if it doesn’t look like my usual style lol, Sean did. I love those toppers. I didn’t have any letter cutters (Now I do, thank you ebay and Nigella) nor any piping bags (grrrrr ebay seller for not sending them on time). But they were just as effective imho. Cupcakes are all me, icing is courtesy of Betty Crocker, if you’ve ever tried to make butter cream without a mixer you appreciate why I used shop bought. Doesn’t taste as nice but still yummy. Making them rainbow was not so hard. Four layers spread across a cupcake liner…

Is it necessary to do a how to?

As the weather starts to warm up and people start venturing in to the outdoors more there is a distinct lack of blog posts across the blogging community. Those first few weeks of sun seem to awaken everyones senses to other things they used to do, last year when it was sunny. The longer days and the crispness of the days inbetween spring and summer are probably my favourites. Hayfever is dying down, warmth is coming and the sun is out that little bit longer. You can wear less and less clothes, avoid wearing a jacket if you want to and the icecream van comes round! Nothing better than a Mr. Whippy on a lovely day.

I really do hope this year that we have a nice summer with plenty of hot days, good amounts of rain (so the plants don’t die) and plenty of Mr. Whippy.

Also it was Sean and I’s 6 month anniversary yesterday. To celebrate we half reneacted our first date. We met at London Bridge at All Bar One and then went for Nando’s for chicken where I stuffed my self silly. Chicken, good, perinaise, good, sweet potato mash… GOOD! To top it all off I had cheesecake AND icecream. I’m going to grow a snout and trotters I know.

We had a lovely time, 6 months more please.