Day of the Dead Cake

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I’ve been really looking forward to making this cake. I was asked by the lovely Grainne to create something for her daughter’s 21st ‘Day of the Dead’ themed birthday party this past weekend. I LOVE this theme. Put simply it’s like Mexican Halloween or if you’re feeling particularly Spanish, Dias de Muertos. I adore it’s colourful vibe, patterns and of course the decorated skulls. I knew it would translate into

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Zombie Brains Cupcakes

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Hope you are having a spooky day and snacking on zombie brains like me. As you do. These cupcakes are vanilla with a raspberry jam blood filling and topped with

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Pumpkin Topped Oreo Cupcakes

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Um so I’ve been worryingly into pumpkins this year. I watercoloured them on to cupcake toppers, we had a pumpkin painting evening (more on that soon), I’m psyching myself up to carve my pumpkin this afternoon aaaand I made these guys. ALL the pumpkins. These fellas were super simple to make. Using some orange fondant I

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Eat it – Wear it // Hamburger Heaven

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Today online I saw a donut filled with cheeseburger. That sentence may leave you excited (have a look here and then you might not be) but I’m not so sure. I kind of like my burgers to be burgers and boy do I love them. Alternatively, I like to wear them. I own a pretty awesome sequin burger sweater that I break out far too often, I sport burger print socks regularly and even

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