Dad's birthday cake

Happy birthday Dad! This is the birthday cake I made for him which is a fruit cake as its his favourite type of cake, (which I made 4 days ago because fruit cake gets better the longer it is left for). I then crumb coated and decorated it with butter icing. I placed chocolate fingers around the side of it, wrote the message in a chocolate pen, and placed fruit on top of it! We all really enjoyed it - even my brother Chris who doesn't like fruit cake at all - and I reckon it will be finished very quickly!

Lemon and Poppyseed cake

I had really wanted to try this cake, and luckily, there was a recipe for it in my British Bake Off book - its becoming very handy. I wasn't that impressed with this cake, I didn't think it was very lemony which I was disappointed with considering the amount of lemon zest which went in it - ah well.

Chocolate marbled cupcakes

These are chocolate cupcakes topped with marbled chocolate and vanilla icing, and chocolate hearts which I made the previous day. I had made the chocolates because I had brought a confectionary magazine which came with the mould. I chose to make chocolate cupcakes because I  had some left over buttermilk from making the scones, and because I had made these before I knew that people liked them. However, there was a bit too much icing so next time I won't pipe so much on top.

Fresh berry scones

These are fresh berry scones I made one Sunday afternoon  when I was a bit bored. They were made with raspberries and blueberries, and me and my family really enjoyed them! This recipe came from my British Bake Off book, and I will be making these again.

Egg custard tarts

I made egg custard tarts when I got home from sixth form today. Again, this recipe was from my Great British Bake Off book. Although some of them collapsed when they came out of the tin, some of these turned out really well. The pastry was lovely and sweet, and I really enjoyed the filling too.

Tea Loaf

This is the tea loaf I made from my Great British Bake Off book. It is filled with cherries, raisins, orange peel and cinnamon. I then decorated it with glace icing. I really enjoyed this, the taste was sweet and the cinnamon really brought out the fruit flavour.