With some green food colouring gel, sparkly sugar paste stars and edible metallic pearls you can transform basic vanilla cupcakes into mini Christmas trees! Firstly make a batch of my ‘Very Vanilla Cupcakes’ (recipe posted 25/05/17). Colour the frosting with green food gel (I use Wilton ‘Leaf Green’). Pipe the frosting onto the cupcakes,
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These adorable cupcakes are always a hit during the festive season! To make a herd of reindeer cupcakes, start off by making a batch of my chocolate cupcakes (recipe posted 19/10/17). To decorate the cupcakes you will need edible sugar eyeballs, red smarties and pretzels! Alternatively you could make the eyeballs and noses from sugar
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This is an alternative to Mulled Wine and is perfect for Gin lovers over the Festive period! Ingredients Cloudy Apple Juice Assorted Spices (cinnamon sticks, star anise, cloves, cardamon pods) Vanilla Pod (cut down the middle) 50ml Sloe Gin (per glass) A cinnamon stick (per glass) An orange slice (per glass) Instructions: Add the assorted
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Today is my Mother’s 70th birthday! Happy Birthday Mam! To mark this milestone she requested a chocolate explosion cake, and I was happy to oblige! So here’s the recipe….. It’s fairly straightforward to make. My cake decorating skills are far from brilliant but I was pleased with the finished article! If I can do it,
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