I can’t think of a better way to spend a Sunday morning than icing butterfly biscuits at Biscuiteers. My sister bought me a class at their icing school which is part of their shop in Notting Hill. The shop was lovely, packed wall to wall full of biscuits and inspiration. I had a good look at all the biscuits before the class to see what I was aiming for. The class itself was so much fun. The school part is tucked downstairs in an adorable kitchen area and in a cosy booth my sister, my friend Fiona, another lovely lady and I we were shown step by step the icing process by our brilliant teacher Charlie. We were given plenty of biscuits to practice and learn new skills. I learnt a lot including how to get air bubbles out of piping bags (finally!), how they dry the icing quickly and how they layer the different types of icing. My favourite new trick is blending the colours by dragging them across one another with a oversized cocktail stick. I’m so pleased with how they turned out. The colours we used were gorgeous and we topped them off with gold paint which made the wings come to life. I could have spent all day playing with different designs and combinations but we only had a couple of hours. We did however leave with a generous gift bag complete with book and apron (score!), a tin full of pretty biscuits and huge smiles.
I’ve never made anything wedding related before. I haven’t had a reason to. But, this week my friend Alexia from Bluebell and George asked me to help with wedding themed biscuits. Not only is she doing the flowers for the wedding but, as a bridesmaid she has been organising the hen do (exciting!), which is this weekend. Part of the celebrations include a tea party which is such a great idea. She sent me a couple of images of designs for the type of biscuits she wanted and I went from there. I really loved making these and I thought the idea was completely adorable. I used this book for the recipe. My favourite part was adding little details such as the Groom’s flower and glitter to the Bride’s dress. I hope the Bride likes them and has a fun weekend! 
Music is undoubtedly for me one of the best things in life. It has an ability to express how you’re feeling like nothing else. So for Valentine’s Day I think song lyrics are perfect. Especially ones you can eat. I put a range of different ones on biscuits, some are new, some are old and some are just silly. There are so many great songs to choose from and next time I’m going to make bigger biscuits as some of my fave lyrics wouldn’t all fit on. I do like how personal these can be, and there are definitely a few reserved for some special people. Happy Valentine’s Day! x
Christmas Sweaters (Jumpers) might be one of the best things about Christmas. The uglier the better. Every year I indulge in a novelty sweater normally from here, and this year was no exception. Last night my sister and I gathered all our friends to celebrate the festive season with a Christmas Sweater party. It was so much fun and everyone looked so cute in their sweaters! For the party I made these sweater biscuits using this cutter. It took a while to decorate them all but it was so worth it as I had tons of fun deciding what to put on each one. For some of them I took inspiration from real sweaters such a mine and my cousins which you can see below! 
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Wimbledon Tennis starts this week and to celebrate we decided to have a party. Pretty much everything was green and purple themed from our clothes down to the balloons, straws, plates and candles. We started with afternoon tea, for which I made tennis ball biscuits and cupcakes and cupcakes with strawberry frosting. The rest of the evening was spent playing with giant tennis balls and rackets, hanging out on inflatable tennis ball chairs, wearing tennis player masks, watching the film ‘Wimbledon’ and of course, drinking Pimms.
I love Easter for many reasons, but mostly it’s the number of sweet treats that come with this weekend. I made a selection of stuff to share with my friends and family including these bunny biscuits complete with tiny tails, cornflake nests and Creme Egg cupcakes. Consuming a hideous amount of chocolate, particularly Cadbury’s, at this time of year is inevitable. I used about two massive bars to make the cornflake nests. They reminded me of being at school, although I don’t actually remember making them at school…Despite replacing many meals lately with mini eggs I managed to find some spare to decorate these. For me Easter is pretty connected to the Creme Egg, so when I found instructions on how to make cupcakes with mini creme eggs baked inside, I couldn’t resist. I hope everyone that I share these with today will be very happy bunnies. Happy Easter!
I couldn’t resist a bit of Valentine’s baking. For me Love Hearts are pretty iconic for this romantic day and so I chose to recreate them in cookie form. I made the royal icing in the typical pastel colours and wrote little messages on all of them. I stuck to mostly traditional nice messages apart from a couple which read ‘No Chance’ and ‘You’re OK’, just to mix it up a bit. I look forward to giving out the nice ones to the people I love today. Happy Valentine’s Day!
As if I hadn’t made enough biscuits already, I decided to make these snowflakes. They are pretty small and can definitely be eaten in two bites. The snowflakes are decorated with silver royal icing and covered in white sugar sprinkles.
