Adventures in gingerbread – part two

And just like that, we’ve made it to part two of the gingerbread series – a day I’m sure many of us thought would never come.

I’m still deciding whether or not this will be a three-part series. If you haven’t read part one, please do pop over here and have a read about my gingerbread stars.

This blog is all about gingerbread cupcakes! Which I am making because I have some adorable gingerbread man sprinkles!

Continue reading “Adventures in gingerbread – part two”

A hint of mint

It’s more cupcakes on the blog this week! This week we’re baking from the Hummingbird Bakery’s ‘Cake Days’, and the recipe for these cupcakes comes from the Christmas section.

This is one of this recipes where a lot happened. There were ups, there were downs, there was a peppermint essence infused headache. Also I’m not a huge fan of candy canes to be honest, but they seem to be synonymous with Christmas.

Continue reading “A hint of mint”

Adventures in gingerbread – part one

Welcome to another mini-series on the blog. My previous track record with this kind of thing isn’t great – I didn’t ever finish ‘cooking from my calendar’ and I think I might have lost the actual calendar now, whoops.

Hopefully I can cope with a two-part series though. At the time of writing, it might be a three-part series, I haven’t decided yet.

And if you hadn’t guessed, it’s all about gingerbread! Woo woo woo woo woo!

Continue reading “Adventures in gingerbread – part one”

Christmas cupcakes!

Ho ho ho and here we go; it’s  November so it’s nearly Christmas!

I flipping LOVE Christmas. It’s my favourite time of the year, and from October I’m ready and waiting to get Halloween out of the way so I can get excited about the build up to Christmas.

Apparently it’s not acceptable to be excited until Halloween is out of the way, which frankly is a shambles. I say when the shops start putting their Christmas stuff out, it’s fair game. I made these in October, because I don’t follow the rules.

Continue reading “Christmas cupcakes!”