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Hi there!
Please say the snow is finally over! I liked it whilst it was fun but defo needing the sun!
molly xx
Baking!
Anyone who knows me knows that I love/ have a passion for baking! Recently I was really fortunate that my parents bought me a mixer in the Palmers sale! Which seeing it on the side has made me want to bake even more! It is a cream Morphy Richards one, it is so nice!! So this months article is going to be about some of my recent creations! For Mother’s Day, rather than jut buying flowers I thought I’d make some in edible form! For Christmas I got some creative flower piping nozzles, which worked a treat! I had to make the buttercream quite differently to how I would usually do it, as it needed to be thicker so they wouldn’t flop! So instead of margarine I used Trex and meringue powder. I was very pleased with how they came out (and so was my nan)! I did them in different colours so that they looked like a bunch of spring flowers! This was a personal choice but I used different nozzels to make a variety of flowers, no two flowers looked the same!
I was really lucky that my nan picked me up a magazine that had just come out about baking. It came with two different size butterfly cookie cutters, three piping bags, and a magazine about things you could bake and amazing ideas! I chose to use the smallest cookie cutter to make butterflies from royal icing to place on top of some pipped buttercream buns. I chose to make them in red and white as I took them in to school to sell for Sport Relief. I also chose to make some sheep buns to sell as it’s spring time! I’ve made these before, they are very simple but effective! I simply put some green icing on top of the buns and put white mini marshmallows on top of that to look like the sheeps body. I also made the sheep heads out of black and white royal icing, it was like playing with play dough! I’ve already decided that I’m going to make little pink piggies in a similar style to the sheep next, and will also use my big butterfly cutter to make some cookies! Let me know if you enjoy making these or any of your own creations over the holidays! 50 | APRIL 2018
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