Baby Shower

Wow, I really have abandoned my poor little blog and to be quite frank with you all, I have missed nattering away to myself. So guess what...I’m back and this time with even more food pictures(sorry to make you peckish).

Today we held a surprise baby shower for our friend Sarah. As you can imagine I went rather wild with my camera so all I can say is prepare to be bombarded with photos!

We decided on afternoon tea, so out came the bread...

My Sister and I were the A-TEAM making the sarns! Our system was so speedy we may as well have been throwing the bread like a frisbee to one another!

We converted our front room into a little pink tea room (whilst waiting for Nan to arrive with her famous homemade scones and cupcakes).  

We had a sweet station...

We made cute pouches for our chocs and sweeties...

Obviously the milk bottles had to come out to play...

Oh let's not forget the strawberry nougat...

Don't say I didn't warn you that this post was going to be crammed with photos...

Our tea station...

Obviously I was chief pourer!

Whoooooo the scones arrived!!!

As did the cupcakes...

All set up and just waiting on one thing...the Mum to be!

Oh what a photo ruiner! Yes, I'm talking about the football! Don't you worry we were quick to switch to 'The Change-Up' film... this definitely was more appropriate for the baby shower!

Goodbye football.

We tucked into sarnies...

(These ones are gluten & wheat free...yes we cater for all at the little pink tea room!).

and black olive straws...

and yet more sugar...

All because Sarah is ready to POP (well not quite!).

With excitement we toasted to Baby B...

We drank and ate, and drank and ate...

I felt a little sick and dizzy - NOT from the champagne but from the birth talk! Hands over ears.

My Sister made some games which we played...

I'm not really a pink lover but I kind of want to keep our house like this forever!

With scented candles...

cupcakes wherever you look...

scones left right and centre...

and sweets within a hand's reach!

But unfortunately that's a wrap and the baby shower sadly comes to an end! BUT, it's not long until we will be oooohhhiingg and aaaahhhinngg over cute little BABY B!! 

Cannot contain my excitement!

Anyway, I am finally finished with the pink photos! I hope everyone has had a lovely weekend, jam-packed with lots of laughter I hope?

Lots of love,

(All of the above images are my own.)

Egg-Cellent Eggs

So, my Brother and I got our bake on last night (as you do on a Saturday night). We now have our very own take on an ‘Egg-Cellent Egg’. We have endless easter eggs in our house so we felt it was time to spice things up a little! 

Prepare yourself for our DELISH combo…

OREOS with...

REESE'S peanut butter cups...

covered in yet more chocolate to create the fried egg shape!

These Egg-Cellent Eggs are super easy, cheap and fun to make! So, get your Reese's at the ready and let’s have some OREO fun…

What you need to participate in the fun:

(Definitely purchase the double cream Oreos if you can hunt them down.)

 Step 1: Remove the top biscuit from your OREO.

Step 2: Place on your Reese's peanut butter cup.

Step 3: Take your second Oreo, break the bottom off and place on top of your PB cup.

Step 4: It's the fun part...get dunking!

Step 5: Place on a baking sheet and cover in more chocolate to create your splattered EGG look!

Step 6: Once dry peel them away from the baking sheet (cut where they have stuck together). 

Step 7: There you have it, your Egg-Cellent Egg!

Step 8: Cut open and enjoy (this is one we did without the chocolate fried egg look).

You will have lots of Oreo plain biscuits left (if you haven't munched away on them).

So, get some frosting and don't let these go to waste!

I'm sure they will be equally as yum!

Happy Easter everyone!

Have a lovely day cramming your bellies with chocolate and have fun if you decide to make these cute little Egg-Cellent eggies!

Lots of love,  

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Peanut Butter & Nutella layer cake

A few weeks ago it was my Grandad’s birthday and I totally forgot to blog about the CAKE that I baked him! His love affair with peanut butter is worse than mine (only just). So can you guess what I baked him? That’s right, a PB cake weighing just short of 2 stone (slight exaggeration). I did have to laugh though when my Grandad said he put on 6lbs the week after his birthday! Oooops, no more cake for him! 

So anyway, this cake was in actual fact, get ready for it... a  nutella and peanut butter layer cake. I was inspired by this blog post: handbagsandcupcakes. I did however make a few alterations. I swapped the chocolate sponge layer for a second nutella layer and I swapped the choc icing for PB icing. Good swapsies? 

So my cake went a little bit like this (from top to bottom)

Peanut butter frosting decorated with M&M’s

Nutella sponge

Nutella spread

Peanut butter sponge

Nutella spread

Nutella sponge

It’s no surprise really that my Grandad broke his scales!

It certainly did feel like I was feeding the 5,000...

If you would like to bake this cake then HERE are the instructions (just be sure to make your desired swapsies). 

For my version, bake 2 x nutella sponges...

and 1 x peanut butter sponge...

Whip up some peanut butter icing. I should warn you now, this stuff is addictive! To cover the XXL cake I had to double the below ingredients - nothing worse than a stingy amount of icing is there?

Time for the colourful candy to come out to play...

and here you have it...

A gooey Peanut butter cake overloaded with Nutella and M&M's...

The two stoner cake was presented to Grandad John with his M&S voucher...

Gramps was a very happy Man and piled on the peanut butter pounds in style! 

My family LOVE PB (as do I) so if you have any recipes which you think I should try, pretty please send them my way!

Lots of Love, 

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