Cupcakes

This evening I went to my friend Alex’s for pizza night, where we had her now famous Naan pizzas, seen here on her amazing blog for student cooking. Not wanting to go empty handed, myself and Astrid made these cupcakes from this Martha Stewart recipe. We filled them with …

Tonight I went to my friend Rosemary’s pirate themed birthday party. I was pretty excited to wear some stripes and an eye patch (which sadly snapped within the first five minutes of my arrival at the party). I wanted to make her some cupcakes and after finding these cute little flags I was all set. The cake is vanilla but for the icing I used rum flavouring, so they truly did stick to the theme.

Last night we hosted a ‘University Challenge’ evening. Mainly because I wanted to play my new University Challenge game, in which my team managed to score a shocking total of zero points. We all dressed up and …

 Last night we had a Road Trip Reunion. It was a lovely evening with everyone getting together to look at photos and share stories from our trip to America this summer. We were hosted by the Speer family and special guest Judy who kindly made us dinner when we met up with her in Charlotte. As she was over for Christmas, last night she recreated the amazing spaghetti and meatball dinner we had while visiting. I contributed these …