Why can’t I make red velvet cakes?!

Red velvet cakesAfter many years in the wilderness, trying and failing to make red velvet anything, I thought I had succeeded thanks to a bake at home kit from Crumbs and Doilies!

I’m not kidding when I say I’ve tried to make various red velvet bakes about 100 times. Well, ok, 5 times. And every time, EVERY TIME, the bakes aren’t red. No matter which method I use, which recipe I use, which food colouring I use, I just get brown red velvet cakes. And brown red velvet cakes are a problem because they’re not red, and ergo can’t possibly count as red velvet cakes.

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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.

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