I spent the Australia Day long weekend cooking 150 cupcakes for a wedding. I was feeling pretty daunted before the task but, with the help of my mother-in-law Joan, we got 13 dozen white chocolate cupcakes cooked (with a few left over for us to eat - of course). I used the white chocolate cupcake recipe from the Crabapple Bakery Cupcake Cookbook which is pretty good.  I didn’t do it this time but I usually add frozen rasberries - it is delicious. The Crabapple Bakery’s carrot cupcake recipe is really really good.

Despite my weekend of cooking and eating cupcakes, I did a two tier cake for a friend’s granddaughters birthday. The cake needed to be delivered to an isolated property near Bateman’s Bay. As I was busy cooking cupcakes, Anthony did the delivery for me. It was supposed to be buttercream but it was so hot - nearly 40 degrees on Saturday, so I played it safe and used fondant.

Hopefully the birthday girl was happy with it.

Oh I haven’t posted anything for a really long time for which I apologise. I have been really really busy since before Christmas. What with end of year concerts, enrollments in kindy, lots of baking, Christmas preparations, I haven’t had time for much else.

I didn’t even organise Christmas cards for Lily’s preschool friends. How terrible. I made these Christmas cookies for a customer whose daughter was giving them to all her classmates. What a nice idea.

I am going to do them for my kids next Christmas (that is, if I can remember).

Not everything I have done has been Christmas though. There are a lot of birthdays around Christmas time. I made these prams for a first birthday.

These are my favourites though! Green dinasours on sticks - what a great birthday party that would have been.