Sunday, April 8, 2012

Red Velvet delights!



Thought I would have a go at making red velvet cupcakes. I've been meaning to do it for a while. I did have some on my recent trip to New York. I haven't iced them yet so no photos of that. I think they look really good without, though. They're based on a Magnolia bakery recipe although I did make some modifications like halving the recipe and using colour paste rather than liquid dye. To make up for that instead of one and a half eggs (difficult anyway) I used two for extra moisture. I was also a little short with the buttermilk so added a bit of regular milk too.


Saturday, April 7, 2012

Finally flowers

Couldn't wait to get flowers into pots in front of our house and yesterday's holiday and good weather gave us that chance.























I also wanted to test out my new macro lens and I'm pretty happy with it!

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

New York flowers

More flowers from New York