Tooth Fairy Visit

Strawberry Buttermilk Muffins

We had our first-ever visit from the Tooth Fairy last night, so as a treat for our gap-toothed lovely girl I baked these strawberry muffins.  They were easy to do and rose well, but not fabulously exciting to eat.  They taste good, and are light and not too solid but beyond the actual strawberry or two within, and some flavour from the zested lemon, there's not much to recommend them.  So we won't be making these again.  Ah well, there's plenty more recipes in that little book to try (101 Cakes and Bakes from BBC GoodFood team)...

Nothing tasty in the house

sparkly pink Malteser Traybake

After the fun of baking and selling out for the school, I fancied a little something sweet but had nothing in the house, and precious little ingredients with which to bake anything.  Then I remembered the trusty Malteser Traybake recipe, which required none of the ingredients that had been all used up, score!  So here it is, and despite using up the remaining Rice Crispies from the Mars Bar Crispy Slice a couple of weeks ago in place of some of the required amount of Maltesers, of course it still tastes amazing because of how much chocolate etc is in the recipe.   Mmmmm, that sure hit the spot!

Open for business?

Weeeell, I went to the meeting but got the time wrong and so turned up quite late - how embarrassing!  I spent so long apologising that there was precious little time left in which to have relevant conversations.  However, the advisor was attentive and well-informed and made some very good suggestions as to how I could actually start the process of thinking about possibly setting up as a business.  I have some tasks to do to help us decide if it's gonna be financially viable to progress my hobby, so away I go...

School Fundraiser

dozens of purple-coloured flower-shaped vanilla cookies

vanilla mid-sized cupcakes with coloured buttercream icing and various toppings

Well, the school fundraiser went really well for me - my cupcakes had nearly sold out by the time the event started!  Woo hoo.  Admittedly, being a school event they were hideously underpriced, but I still take it as a success and am well chuffed.  The biscuits didn't sell so well, but once tasted were appreciated.  There's leftover yellow icing, so it's in the freezer.  Still in the piping bag with the nozzle in situ - buttercream icing freezes and defrosts really well.  Because I made so many more cupcakes than usual, we had the chance to use nearly my entire array of sprinkles, sparkles and toppings and had lots of fun.  Then later on one of my neighbours came by to ask my advice on something baking-related and I showed her what I had recently bought and she's going shopping and will choose other items.  Yey, we get to do swaps!

Am not sure I'll go to the Business Gateway meeting tomorrow, as mini-me#2 was rather ill tonight.  Will see how she is in the morning...