A productive evening!

Tonight I have been baking butterfly cakes, and I think they have turned out pretty well! My mum was making a banana loaf when I got home from school and it put me in the mood for baking, so I did. It might have had something to do with me having two French essays to write which I’m putting off but nonetheless it was fun, and I haven’t had butterfly cakes for aaages.
If anyone would like the recipe that I used, it’s my grandma’s fairy cake recipe that I use for most cakes, and it’s pretty fool-proof for people who often cock things up like me!
The recipe is:
4oz caster sugar
4oz butter
4oz self-raising flour
2 eggs
If I’m making chocolate cakes, I substitute 1oz of the flour for cocoa powder. For the buttercream I used 1.5oz butter and 3oz icing sugar. Sorry this is in imperial, but I’m not sure what the metric is! I hope that this is of use if anyone is in need of a simple, easy-to-remember fairy cake recipe though!
I think I might start baking more, I do enjoy it. I’d like to decorate cakes nicely and things too; one of my art teachers at college showed us some work she did at a cake decorating class a little while ago and it looked like it would have been really fun!
It’s something to think about anyway.
I want to bake something else again soon. Maybe something involving chocolate, because I love chocolate cake, and let’s face it, who can resist chocolate?

What are your favourite kinds of cakes?

Lauren xxx

Twitter

So I’ve just joined Twitter, which I have no idea how to navigate, and it all seems very chaotic to me. Nonetheless, I’ve linked it up to my blog anyway, which should be useful once I get this thing up and running and start using it properly. I guess this is a tester post to see if the link works, haha.
Ciao,

Lauren xxx

Hello!

My name is Lauren and this is my new blog. I will be posting a variety of things, I don’t really think there will be much of a theme, unless you count my general interests as themes anyway. I make quite a lot of things in my spare time like art and dresses and different crafty projects so I will be posting them when I do them, and perhaps a few tutorials. I’ll also be posting about things that I do, days out, places I go to, that sort of thing, as well as general ramblings on goodness knows what. As well as my own content, I may also share articles, music, videos, and images that I think are of interest. So that’s it really; feel free to follow me if this interests you, and leave comments if you wish! Also incase any potential followers are wondering, there’s no real end result I want from blogging here or any reason for it; I’ve just always fancied it, so I thought why not give it a go?

Lauren xxx