Halloween Badge Competition

My little Ollie entered this masterpiece into Simoney Badges Halloween competition last week and is a winner yay! Well done Ollie.

Ollie with his badge on very pleased with himself, bless him.

This is a must for his keepsake box :)

Making Cake Pops

I am experimenting with cake pops at the moment as we are going to a wedding and the bride and groom set up a competition to make cakes or sweets that will be fed to the guests. So I thought I would have a go at cake pops with a twist.

Saturday 11th May - First attempt:

I dyed the sponge pink and tried different fillings - jelly beans, marshmallows and strawberry flavoured chocolate. 
The marshmallows disappeared when cooked so I won't be using those again but the chocolate and beans worked well. Weirdly the pink dye didn't come out once cooked. Not bad for a first attempt and hubby seemed to like them after tasting well almost half of them.

Next step was to decorate, so I melted white chocolate and poured all over the cake pop then sprinkled with hearts and hundreds and thousands.
 
One mistake learnt was that I put the covered cake pops onto a flat surface so when it hardened one side of the cake pop was flat so I will put them in a glass next time to stand.

I'm pleased with my overall first attempt and they actually tasted pretty good.



Friday 17th May - The Recipe:
4oz Caster Sugar
2 eggs
1 tbsp Milk
6oz Self Raising Flour
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract 

My extras :
Heart jelly beans - to add to each cake pop
Strawberry Chocolate to add to the mixture
White chocolate to cover the cake pop

The Final Entry


Decorated with white chocolate and covered in edible hearts, purple sparkle, hundreds and thousands and some had popping candy to give them a little extra twist.

Final Entry

All placed in a silver pot with white ribbon and filled with pink and white heart jelly beans.

Fingers crossed.














The Competition - Saturday 18th May
   
 
I knew I would have some competition but I thought I had a chance with the presentation alone.


GUTTED...........I didn't win and not even a runner up :(


I'm retiring from cake pop making.
 

Every Thursday

Is it sad to look forward to Thursdays because one of my favourite shops Dorothy Perkins has a Facebook competition called WANT IT WIN IT you pick something from the DP site and add a comment on the facebook page of your chosen item then they pick someone from the comment list to win what they ask for. I haven't won anything yet but i'll keep trying because I might aswell. 

Here are some of my wants so far:

Multi Butterfly Maxi Dress

Jade Boucle Knit Dress

Black Spot Mesh Jumper

                          

Black Spot Print Chiffon Dress

      

Butterfly / Spot Blouse

             

 Buckle Square Toe Boot

Tan Pull On Riding Boots

   

I purchased these two boots in the sale in the end as couldn't resist they are lovely and I bagged them in the sale I wrote a post on the tan boots.

   
I Rather like DP clothing but items seem a bit pricey so I tend to wait for the sales to get what I want.