Upcoming baking and posts.....

Hello again!

 I am finally free after handing in my dissertation yesterday. I say free but I actually have three assignments to be getting on with eek! Well today is a chill out day as a reward of finally finishing my dissertation so I thought I would blog :)

The next few weeks will be busy weeks for me. I have 4 weeks left at uni then it is all over, which is pretty scary and means I have to start looking for jobs :S. I did online numeracy and verbal reasoning tests for one job yesterday so I am getting there and have applied for another which I am looking forward to hearing back from. Its a shame I can't spend my life baking cakes, I can always dream.

But thats not all for the next few weeks, I am also going to be busy with baking <3.

Firstly, next week is my lovely flatmates 22nd birthday party, so I am baking a cake for her to keep at the house and some cupcakes to take to the party. I have a few ideas already but she's quite creative herself so I can imagine that she will have a few ideas for the cupcakes so I will post on here when they are done :).

Secondly, next Sunday me and my lovely baking friend Billie are going on a cupcake decorating course in Worksop. It was my Christmas present to her and we are finally getting round to going. I am so excited and can't wait to learn a few new things. I will review the class also on here the following week :).

Thirdly, May the 12th is my amazing Dad's Birthday so I will be making a cake. I picked up some cute garden gnome candles so thought a garden related cake would be perfect for him. BUT and it's a big but as I love using ready to roll icing, he doesn't like it. Therefore I have the challenge of decorating the cake using as little as possible. I think it will be a challenge but I have drawn something up already so I have a few thoughts.

Finally, I am itching to bake the Bakewell cake that featured on last weeks Saturday Cookbook. I have got really into that programme and LOVE Nadia! As I am busy with work I have to find an excuse to bake it, so I think I may have fatten up the bfs flatmates again haha.

So as you can see the next few weeks are going to be busy, but there's also lots of things for me to blog about, so my next blog will be this weeks TUTORIAL TUESDAY and the Mini Caramel Cheesecakes. But today I will leave you with a few pictures of the cakepops I did last week, I used vanilla flavoured cake for them and have to say I think they are yummier than the chocolate ones. To decorate them I ordered some red candy melts off ebay which were great but also tried experimenting with some Tescos own dark chocolate which was a bit thick, I had to add vegetable oil to thin it. I also used the normal Silverspoon Strawberry, Orange and White chocolate, see what you think:

Vanilla Cakepops - I love the ones with sprinkles best

And again <3

Be back Tuesday lovelys,

Samantha Who (loves to bake)