Hey guys
Sorry long time no post! I have finally finished my exams, assignments and dissertation, everything is in and university is over! The last 4 years have flown by and I am quite sad that it's all over. Today is the first day that I have done nothing in a while and I am actually quite bored! But I am very much looking forward to my holiday in a few weeks time. CRETE!
Anyway, on to the baking. For the Queen's Jubilee I decided to do a twist on something traditionally British. . . . Trifle. I made Raspberry Trifle in chocolate cups. To do this I got my silicone cupcake cases that the lovely Steph and Andrew Artley (Lucy and Rosie 's Mum and Dad) bought me. I have 12 in total and 4 tea cup moulds. I used 450g of melted chocolate and painted it into the inside of each case using a teaspoon. After leaving in the fridge for an hour I repeated this with another 450g of chocolate and left to set again in the fridge for another hour. I could then peel away the silicone and was left with chocolate cups. I then placed trifle sponge and fruit cocktail in the bottom of each cup and filled the cup half way with Raspberry Jelly made from jelly cubes. (I had to leave the jelly to cool slightly before putting in the cups as the chocolate could have melted). I then made custard using instant custard mix and left to cool slightly, I then spooned this into the cups up to the top. Now for the cream... I whipped up double cream and tried to fashion it on top of the cups and added decorations and sprinkles:
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| Very British |
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| Chocolate Trifle Cups with icing union jack and decoration |
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| Trifles in teacups <3 |
My next plan is my boyfriends birthday cake next Tuesday, I don't have a clue how I am going to decorate it? I just know it has to be chocolatey haha! I will blog about that next week :)
Samantha Who (loves to bake)
