RECIPE: Easter Cake

I have wanted to make an Easter cake for many years and this year was the year I finally did! I followed a Mary Berry recipe which I followed for the cake but I bought the icing in a tub as it was faster and meant less washing up!

Ingredients:

3 large eggs

175g self-raising flour

175g caster sugar

175g softened butter

1½ level tsp baking powder

40g cocoa powder

4 tbsp boiling water

ANY EXTRAS TO DECORATE

I preheated the oven to 180 degrees and put all the ingredients (but the cocoa and water) into a large mixing bowl and used an electric whisk to whizz them all together! Next, in a separate bowl I stirred the cocoa and the water to make a thick paste which I then added to my mixture. 

Once all stirred and mixed together I put the mixture in two round cake tins making sure they were both even and level, before putting them in the oven for 20 minutes.

Once cooled I cut off any peaks I had so that the cakes would sit nicely on each other and spread my icing over the top of the cake with the back of a spoon. I then used some mini eggs, white chocolate buttons and revels to decorate as well as an iced flower!

 We made this for my boyfriend's parents as an Easter surprise, here it is with our Easter 'card'!

Abi :)

What I Did For My Birthday

Hi chums!

I had probably the best birthday yet last weekend so I thought I'd tell/show you what I got up to!

This has to be one of the nicest things to wake up to on your birthday! I got so many lovely and feel so lucky, if you haven't already and you're interested then check out what I got in my previous post!

Birthday cake!

I then drove to Cabot Circus (Bristol) where my boyfriend and I did a bit of shopping before going to the cinema and watching Focus - it was very good!

We then went to Za Za Bazaar which was lovely and then went out for a few drinks!

The next day was a lot more relaxing, we went to a spa in Gloucester where we had a back, neck and shoulder massage and full use of their pool, hot tub, sauna and steam room! After that we got a lunch which was included in our pay package so that was nice! In the evening we drove back to Somerset and went to see Insurgent, this was so good but very jumpy for someone whose not too keen on loud noises!

The last day of the weekend was spent at the beach to enjoy the sunshine! We also went to an arcade where we lost all of our money on 2p machines!!

Abi :)

A Day Out At My Godmother's

I adore going to my Godmother's, she owns sooo much land and it all looks so pretty especially in the sun! We went round for some tea and to have a good catch up as well as to show her all my Lake District photos which you can check out HERE.

LOVED the co-ordination, it's so pretty!

After some tea and cake we went to walk the doggies for a bit, there's so much wildlife there and lots of pretty flowers too! On our walk we found a baby frog, toadstall, grasshoppers and lots of blue butterflies!

Thought the clouds were so pretty!

We got given some eggs laid by their chickens, they're so speckly and perfect!

Hope you enjoyed reading about my day out!

Abi :)