January 1st, 2010
60. Decorate two Christmas cakes each year (Blog Page)
I started a cake decorating course in 2006 but never managed to complete it due to my health. I got a leeetle resentful and stuck my kit-box in the cupboard. This year with my 101 Things list in mind, I made a point of properly making Christmas cakes and dusted the box off. I’m going to start using the kit again with my cupcakes so it won’t be such a waste.
Anyway…
Cake One
This one was made by Dean but still decorated by me and kept here in Liverpool:
Cake Two
This one was to take to Musselburgh, both made and decorated by me. I love it!! (I was frustrated by the overhang of icing as I had been continuously smoothing the edge but nothing to cancel Christmas over…)
I’m not quite sure how I’ll come up with something to top these next year!
Anne xx
September 20th, 2009
49. Take a photo of 30 happy things.
I can’t help but think we go through life not recognising the things which makes us happy and if we took more note, we could be happier. This list is in no particular order, just as I think of/see them and are from all aspects of life.
Flickr photoset and blog page
#5 – Baking
Baking is one of my favourite things in the world, I love to bake and if I had a better appetite (and energy), I would bake much more than I do. Some of my best early memories involve baking with my mum, then being so proud of myself when I graduated to baking on my own. I look forward to having children of my own so I can pass my love of baking on to them. We still bake together now and I’d say we’re still a pretty good team. I love to bake for friends (this was made for afternoon tea) and most of all, I bake for fun.
Where there are cakes, there are smiles…
This particular cake (Nigella’s Malibu Coconut) is absolutely delicious, especially the toasted coconut buttercream in the middle, yum. You can see the frosted cupcakes in the background.
Anne xx
September 20th, 2009
10. Meet 20 new internet friends in real life (page link)
54. Bake at least 50 times (page link)
I’ve been staying at my mum’s for a week and we hosted an afternoon tea for some of my friends (the same friends we had a picnic with in August) on Wednesday this week. We had a fab time both baking together and the tea party itself. My mum and I love baking and cooking together and for the tea we made scones, Malibu coconut cake, cupcakes, lemon drizzle cake and chocolate truffles. We had salmon, ham and cucumber sandwiches too. The children all seemed to enjoy themselves too, with their little picnic on the floor.
I also got to meet the lovely Anna, who I have spoken to for so long but never got to meet. Hopefully it’s the first of many meetings and this takes my tally of meeting internet friends in real life to 18.
Such a lovely (and yummy!) day.
Anne xx
