Happy 80th Birthday - Cards, Cake, Family and Friends

It was Dad's 80th birthday on 1st October and we celebrated at my Sister's house with a tea party for family and friends on 5th.

I made Dad a card using the Cricut, and the Birthday Bash Cartridge. This was my design team card for Scrapology for this month's challenge. The papers are from Basic Grey's Indian Summer collection, which was perfect for the Autumnal colour theme chosen by team member Sheena.

With the help of Catherine I did a lot of baking and cake decorating in the days leading up to the party. I made a big three tier cake, one layer vanilla, the second chocolate and the third was chocolate chip. All decorated with fondant icing.

Then we decorated cup cakes, 36 for the party, another 12 lactose free so Emily could have some and another 12 for Catherine to take to a party she was going to later in the weekend!

We decorated many of them with the same fondant we had made for the big cake. Others were piped with orange and lemon flavoured butter cream.

 

These all made it safely to my sisters house in the car!

Sylvia had prepared all the other food and Bob had put up the Marquee.

People travelled from far and wide to be with Dad to celebrate his special birthday.

 Happy Birthday Dad.

Thanks for looking.

Lynn x

Early Happy Birthday to Anita

The lovely Anita has a birthday later this month and so we celebrated at our crop yesterday.

I made her a cake. I saw this cake on Facebook and several people have had a go - here is my attempt:

 

Bottoms up!

I made daisies with white and yellow fondant and a little green sugar for grass.

 

 Anita with her cake

 

Catherine and I had an afternoon baking (we made another cake too, but can't share that until next weekend!). 

 Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Cake Pops

I have had a play at making cake pops, this is my first attempt! I'm really pleased with how the cakes turned out, but want to find a better way of doing the covering. I felt the Melts were too heavy, but there are lots of other ways of doing this so I will read more and find a lighter recipe.

They taste good and there are so many great ideas for decorating them. I'm looking forward to trying this out again. Maybe I will make a batch to take to the next crop!

Jam & Jerusalem

Or the mad hatters tea party!!

While staying in Devon with our friend Frances, we were invited along to a charity garden party held my Frances' friend and fellow WI member Brenda. It rained hard all morning so we were beginning to think it might be cancelled. However over lunch the sun came out and so Frances raided her wardrobe for hats, which she claimed we had to wear, and off we went.

Emily

Frances, Emily and me. 

Quintessentially English! 

Tea and ...

... cake. 

This amazing tree is like an umbrella, you can stand right up inside it.

I won a glass cake stand in the raffle, and when we got back to Frances house, Emily made some fairy cakes.

A lovely afternoon.

Back with more of the garden later.



Neopolitan Treats

We had our monthly crop at Cardinal Colours yesterday and this time we were joined by Zoe Pierson (Mrs Wonker) We had a great day as usual and Zoe brought along these delicious cup cake treats.

Zoe even gave up a tip for less mess when eating cup cakes - tear the cake in half and turn it into a sandwich!

Delicious - thank you Zoe.

Chocolate Fudge Muffins, Banana Loaf and Christmas Cake

Andrew and I did some baking at the weekend. He wanted to make a Christmas cake while home for the summer as he doesn't get back from University until a few days before Christmas. He thought it would be a good idea to start the process. While he was working his way through Delia Smith's recipe I made Chocolate Fudge Muffins and Banana loaf.

I drizzled some melted chocolate on top of the muffins.

No complaints and they have all gone!

The cake has been squirreled away for now.

Cup Cakes on Three Levels

I recently found this tree tier cake stand in a shop in Woodbridge. It is antique style but I'm not sure if it is a genuine antique or not, I just liked it!

Yesterday I made some cakes, to try it out! We had tea in the garden - it was such a lovely day.

The closest thin I have seen anywhere else is a two tier stand in Lakeland.

Thanks for looking,

Lynn x

C is for Cup Cakes

A to Z 2011 - C is for Cup Cakes.

 

2011 Log: Alphabet, Buckingham Palace, Cupcakes

Amazing Technicolour Cupcakes

We had our monthly crop at Jill's (Cardinal Colours) yesterday - another lovely day scrapbooking with friends.  Wendy and Liz will both have another birthday before we meet again so we celebrated with cake. The most amazing brightly coloured cup cakes made by Anita. For more details please see her blog.

Perfectly colour coordinated with Wendy's top and cast! 

Here is the one I chose 

And this is what it looked like inside! 

Really colourful treat, many thanks Anita.