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Hummingbird Bakery

Siân — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:21:07 +0000

I am lusting after the recipe book from London’s Hummingbird Bakery. My birthday isn’t until December but you don’t have to have a reason to buy people gifts do you? Sometimes it’s just nice to be nice!

I am going to be in London for a few days this week so am hoping to pay a visit for myself… just don’t know which one to go to, Notting Hill or South Kensington?!

The step by step that started it all

Siân — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:06:59 +0000

Ok so this is the step by step I posted on twitter that started the whole “cakeupartist” thing. Originally there were more pictures included – one at each step – but I’ve edited it down a little bit to the most important ones!

Ingredients: caster sugar, butter/margerine, 2 eggs (free range), sr flour, vanilla extract, milk + pretty cake cases

- preheat oven to 200°c
- 125g caster sugar + 125g butter – cream together in a mixing bowl.
- add eggs to sugar and butter mix and beat together. add 1tsp vanilla extract.

- seive 125g sr flour into the mixing bowl.
- add 2 tbs milk and beat together until smooth.

- arrange the cakes cases in a 12hole bun tin and then spoon the mixture equally into each case.
- pop them in the oven for 10 to 12 mins – or until golden brown on top
… now do the washing up

- take them out of the oven when they’re done and put them on a cooling rack and let them cool for a while.

To Ice:

- you’re gonna need icing sugar, water and jelly diamonds!
- 125g of icing sugar, seive it into a bowl and add 1tbsp warm water and mix well

- now put the icing onto the fairy cakes.
(Using a spoon dipped in hot water helps to stop the icing sticking.)
If its a bit runny add more icing sugar, you don’t want it to run off the sides!

- Add your decorations before the icing sets…
I went for jelly diamonds, but you could use silver balls, hundred n thousands, chocolate sprinkles…

My name’s Siân and I’m a cake addict!

Siân — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:35:21 +0000

I am also a Makeup Artist – www.siananigans.com

It was my mum that taught me to bake, right from me being very young she would spend afternoons with me, and my sister once she came along, baking lots of different cakes and biscuits. Fairy cakes were always one of my favourites to do, along with a jam swiss roll and coffee kisses! So yeah, I’ve kind of been doing this a while – Thanks mum!

Cakeupartist came about after one afternoon, a bit of boredom and lots of picture posts on twitter! I posted a LIVE step by step fairy cake tutorial online for all my friends on twitter as I made a batch of cakes for a meeting we had later that day. It went down a treat to say the least – as did those cakes!

One of those friends, Dave McAleavy, kindly purchased www.cakeupartist.com for me that evening as a gift… so here we are!