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.

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!

New York flowers

More flowers from New York

New York panoramas

Off again on some travels. This time it was New York for a course last weekend but there was time to catch up with friends and for trips to museums and the Brooklyn botanical garden, seen here.

Spring is here!

Bit of a crocus fest today when I got home. After taking off the autumn leaves, these little guys sprung up. If only they had real saffron.