Lemon tarts

 For my aunties birthday i wanted to bake something for her and i found this recipe for lemon tarts in the observer magazine. It was quite easy but took a long time and there were lots of steps.

 I also got the pastry recipe from the observer magazine and you can find it here, i got lots of compliments about the pastry and apparently it was the perfect consistency (but i didn't do anything special i just followed the recipe)

My Auntie loved them and so did everyone else and i hope that if you decide to make them that your family will appreciate them as well.
                                                    Hope your having a nice start to the week
                                                                           A X

Gooey chocolate cupcakes

The other day i was really in the mood for doing some baking, so when my friends came round and said that they really fancied some chocolate cupcakes i told them that i would make them some. I got the recipe from here but instead of caster sugar i used granulated and it made them taste really yummy.

 For the buttercream i used this recipe, then melted 200g of dark chocolate and stirred it in, it tasted pretty good even if i do say so myself.

In the end both my friends ended up having 3 each! and they where all gone by the end of the day, i took this as a big compliment and will definitely be making these again!
                                           
                                              hope you have a happy friday.
                                                                  A x

Cake pops

For the easter holidays we went away to the country, and while we were there i wanted to do some baking (whats better then baking in the country?) so i decided to make some cake pops for everybody. I got a this really good recipe from 'the kitchn' and it showed you how to make them from scratch without using cake mix and ready made icing which was really good.

Everyone said that they were extra yummy and were eaten up pretty quickly, they did take a lot of work but it payed off in the end.
                       Hope you are having a good easter holidays
                                               Love A x