Max’s Yellow Cake

Last week my boy Max turned a month old! I have no idea where the time has gone but I have managed to bake a few times and plan on baking a new cake each month for Max and decorating it.  This way I’ll have plenty of recipes to share with you and hopefully I’ll improve my skills so that I can knock it out of the park for Max’s 1st birthday! The piping on this cake was a bit rushed as I had a very hungry baby to tend to, so I will allow myself a little more time next month.

This month’s cake was a ‘Yellow Cake’.  I have made Bakerella’s version of this cake before and think I preferred that, as my cake wasn’t as moist as I’d like, but was still enjoyable.  To make you will need the following:

1 ¾ cups plain flour
¼ cup cornflour
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
125g butter, softened
1 cup sugar
3 large eggs, room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla essence
¾ cup milk

Preheat oven to 180˚C.  Grease two round 9-inch cake pans.
In bowl, combine flour, cornflour, baking powder, and salt.
In a separate bowl cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla and mix until completely combines. Slowly add flour mix alternating with the milk. At end of addition batter should be smooth. Divide evenly between your two pans.
Bake Yellow Cake Recipe for 20 to 25 minutes. Cool 5 minutes in pan, then invert onto a rack and cool completely before frosting.
Ice with a butter cream frosting (I used 200g butter and roughly 4 cups of icing sugar) and decorate to your personal taste.

 

Update…

Baby Max has arrived!!  Courtenay gave birth to Max on the 10th of Feb.  He weighed 8lbs 9oz and was 55cm long.  Sooo cute!  Can’t wait to visit and have a cuddle :)

So, sorry that there hasn’t been any new recipes popping up on our blog, but obviously, Courtenay has been a little busy.  I’ve been busy too, not with babies, but with work – had to start back at school this month.  I have been crafting away because a lady has approached me about selling some of the stuff I have on felt. on her website, so I have been stitching together a small stock for her.

If you have been baking and want to help us out we are more than happy to have you as a guest blogger.  Just send me an email (see to the right of the blog posts) and we can sort stuff out :)

So, that is what the haps is.  If you are looking to make something last minute for Valentines day, you can easily adapt some of the recipes already on here.  Why not make some cookies?  Just use a heart shape cutter and colour the icing pink!  You could make truffles, but change the mint slice biscuits to Strawberry Oreos!  Or, if you really want to show off, have a go at making a Red Velvet Cake.  Yum yum!

Hope to get you some more pics of little Max and some new recipes on here soon!

Still Baking…

Yup, that’s me at just over 38 weeks pregnant! I am very ready to meet this little man now, he is due sometime over the next week so fingers crossed he is nice and punctual like his Mum.

I have managed to do some baking lately but will have to fess up to lazy baking and using a packet mix. I felt like a yummy chocolate slice and saw this Edmonds mix at the supermarket, it was super easy to make and very delicious, well worth a go if you are short on time.

 
Melissa or I will update you when my little man (who we have already named Max) arrives, and if I manage to get any baking done before then I will get it posted ASAP!

Blue Velvet Cupcakes

A couple of weekends ago my lovely friend Tayler threw me a baby shower to celebrate the impending arrival of my baby boy, so I could think of no better excuse to make ‘blue velvet cupcakes’ using the same red velvet cake recipe I posted about back in February.

They came out of the oven looking a bluey green colour (rather ugly compared to the lovely rust red of the red velvet cake). I covered them up with some cream cheese icing and dusted on some blue sprinkles, they had the same taste as the cake that I have come to love over the last 10 months, but, when bitten into the blue colour was uneven and not nearly as striking as the red.

I think in the future I will stick to making the cake the way it was intended to be made.

A bun in the oven!

And... it's a boy!  Congratulations Courtenay! 
Courtenay is pregnant, and Thursday night she and her husband Shane found out that they are expecting a boy. 
I made her cupcakes to celebrate and Jude (one of our work colleagues) brought in balloons.  We set them up in Courtenay's classroom on Friday morning before she arrived at school to give her a surprise :)
Courtenay is due Feb 1st.  She is doing very well and baby looks healthy.