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?

I made cupcakes!

I found some oh-so-cute Donna Hay cupcake mixes in Sainsbury’s and I had to get some. The adorable little cases sold it for me. At 99p each they were a bargain for 12 large cupcakes. Was going to make them for my friends birthday but she was being fussy. So yesterday evening to stave off the boredom I made the chocolate batch. I bought lemon coconut ones too…

They were very easy and made monster sized cupcakes the size of small muffins. My only small gripe is that they didn’t exactly fill the cup cake trays like on the box. I think I may try making some of her recipes from scratch instead and see how nice they come out. The button thingies are sweet but entirely inedible!

I also finished the booties off yesterday morning while watching the Prestige (Which was really good!) god knows why I woke up at 6 am!!

All priced, boxed and on Ebay already. They don’t sell for much but they keep me amused.

I prefer this pattern with the crochet strap.