Cupcake competition

Some of my friends have started a group on facebook called The Great FB Bakeoff and the idea is to bake stuff in whatever category they choose, post the photos and let people vote. The first category they've chosen is Cupcakes. I've never done cupcakes before. I've done muffins which are similar but the don't require the fancy icing that cupcakes do! These are the cupcakes I've made this evening still in their pre-icing state. I think icing will come tomorrow I'm too tired for that now. They are Banana and White Chocolate Cupcakes from my favourite book How to Be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson.

Interestingly I used rubber reusable cupcake cases for the first time today and as you can see those cupcakes came out flat on top whereas the ones I made using paper cases look more like muffins! I'm sure there's a scientific explaination for that but I have no idea what it is! Anyone?

cheesecake and being a domestic goddess

For Matt's birthday I made mini cheesecakes. The recipie is from Nigella Lawson's How To Be A Domestic Goddess which has to be my favourite cookbook. It seems that even I can almost seem like a domestic goddess when I bake from the recipies in this book!

The Art of Being a Domestic Goddess

I am certainly not a domestic goddess - my husband cooks dinner most days for a start, but I do love baking and especially baking things from Nigella Lawson's book How to be a Domestic Goddess.

The amigurumi I have been working on this week is for a friend and she doesn't want anyone to see it before she does so I can't post any photos to show you what I've been doing. It's a big doll so it's taken me quite a few days. It's almost finished now and I'm pretty happy with how it has turned out.

So as I have no amigurumi photos to post today I thought I'd post a picture of the cream cheese brownies I made last night. They are very squidgy and yummy.