I am getting slightly addicted to making these felted slippers. A pretty blue pair this time for my sister to give as a birthday gift. I used the same pattern to knit them but tried some Cascade 220 Heathers yarn this time. They didn’t felt very evenly and I had to wash them 4 times...

One of my friends can’t eat dairy products and whenever we have group get-togethers I always forget and make a big batch of buttercream laden cupcakes. Yes, I know, I’m a bad friend! However, last time we all got together I remembered to make her a batch of blueberry muffins and even packaged them up in a...

Many thanks for all your entries in my first blog giveaway. And the winner of the Tate & Lyle sugar is… @Mum_TheMadHouse. Congratulations Jen! Can you email me your address please (cakeshopcorner@googlemail.com) and I’ll get your prize posted out to you. Happy baking and don’t forget to show me what you make! 🙂 In the...

A Hello Kitty cake for a special 5 year old’s birthday. Hope she liked it! The cake was a vanilla sponge filled with buttercream and jam, trimmed to the shape of Hello Kitty’s face, covered in piped vanilla buttercream stars and finished with fondant bow and features.

I have written, rewritten and deleted this post many times. I don’t like to be controversial or even hint at being controversial. I like to please everyone and be popular. I want everyone to love me. But seeing recent tweets and reading some recent blog posts, I am wondering what do you want from your...

Please ignore this random post. I have been hearing about Technorati on twitter so, like the nosey cow that I am, decided to sign up! Apparently I have to post a code for them to verify me. So here it is MACRTR4UZYWW I’m assuming I can remove this post once they’ve verified I do actually...

I’m sure that many of you, like me, looked in horror at the emerging photos of the dreadful floods in Cumbria. I was especially worried as I have family who live in the Lake District who, thankfully, were not severely affected. Our thoughts are with those whose homes and businesses have been devastated by the...

Sometimes we just really fancy a quick delicious pudding and this is one of my favourites that only takes about 5 minutes to make in the microwave. I don’t usually measure my ingredients for the butterscotch sauce I just melt about 25g butter, 75g soft brown sugar and a tablespoon of golden syrup in a...

I am one of those people who always says “I’m not lucky, I never win anything!” But it seems my luck has changed for the better because in the last month I have won not one, but two blog giveaways! What a lucky girly I am 🙂 One of the first blog giveaways that I...

I am one of those people who always says “I’m not lucky, I never win anything!” But it seems my luck has changed for the better because in the last month I have won not one, but two blog giveaways! What a lucky girly I am 🙂 One of the first blog giveaways that I...

I signed up to wordpress a while ago after several friends said I should start blogging about my cooking and cake decorating, but never actually wrote a post – til now! I went through the usual range of excuses: I can’t write (I’m not after a career in journalism so I guess it doesn’t matter...