Looks crappy but makes me happy: cream cheese frosting

Now. About a month ago my pal Gemma asked me to make some cakes for her wedding celebration in August. I jumped at the chance! I immediately started thinking about what kind i could make and how I'd go about doing it with timings etc.

So, as always, i left it til the night before and done all the shopping and baking. 5 hours i was at it. I knew I'd have no room in my freezer to prebake all the cakes so i thought bugger it! Night before it is!

My plan was chocolate (using the dr oetker recipe on the website); choc chip and lemon (using normal 6/6/6/3 recipes); carrot and finally red velvet. 3 out of the 5 iwas happy with, but ive never attempted red velvet or carrot before. I ended up using Nigellas red velvet recipe (buttermilk substitue = milk and lemon juice!! Who knew?!) and some Google carrot cake recipe that looked the simplest (but with normal SR flour rather than wholemeal because i wasn't bloody spending £2 on a bag of flour!!!)

Raging success!! I've never been so proud! I ended up making 69 altogether (i was originally planned to make 30 bit that went straight out the window when i got excited!!)

And... im pleased to say that there weren't too many left when we tumbled out the party at 1am this morning :-)

Totally chuffed!

So today i woke up feeling fresher than i expected and decided i wanted to bake more. The girls at work will hate me, i think I'm a feeder.

I had stuff left over so another red velvet was to be made (well, technically fuscia velvet because the Nigella recipe used a whole bloody pot of colouring paste, and it was either fuscia or sky blue).

I made a whole cake this time rather than cupcakes so want really sure of the timings. I think it ended up a wee bit dry but its bloody lovely!

As an aside, i bought spices from the website curryfrenzy this week and decided i would make a naga curry for tea.

I'm not sure if my bum will tolerate the aftermath tomorrow...

Til next time :-)