As you may already know, Children in Need was on Friday the 13th this year and because I was in placement at a primary school this year, I thought it would be fun to bake some cakes with Pudsey Bear and sprinkles on for the children.
I didn't have a clue how on earth I was going to make the Pudsey faces, all I knew was that I needed coloured icing and a cutter somehow...
Well, in the end I had to trace a picture of Pudsey from my computer and then copy it onto a cardboard cut out for me to be able to make my Pudsey Bear faces better. It took forever but there were amazing even if I do say so myself. Proper proud of myself!!!
I was up until like 2 in the morning making these... I put a lot of effort into them and at least the children all behaved as they knew there was cake on the go hahaha!! Luckily there were a few left over so I got to take the rest home.
This one was by far my best Pudsey face, I love it!!!
The best thing about being in placement is that I get to join in with all of the activities the children do to guide and support them even though I'm really enjoying them too hahaha!!
Halloween we were allowed to dress up as someone from Harry Potter and for Children in Need I dressed up as a super hero and donated to the charity and did my bit... did you do yours??
Let me know if you did anything like this for Children in Need, it's such a great cause!!
Hope you have all had a great week and keep sending you're thoughts and prayers to all the families in Paris, no one should ever have to go through anything like that!!
Melishia x
Last Sunday I though I would be creative and bake some cookies and cupcakes, just because I was bored and had nothing else to do... apart from the college work I almost forgot to do... I know some of you were looking forward to this post to know how to make them yourselves!!
Toffee Popcorn Cookies
225g Soft Butter
250g Demerara Sugar (brown sugar)
1 Large Egg
300g Self Raising Flower
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
100g Toffee Popcorn
100g Dark Chocolate
Method:
1. Pre-Heat your oven to 180, fan 160, gas mark 4.
2. Whisk the butter and sugar together until all combined, then add the egg and whisk together.
3. Pour in the flour, baking powder and half of the popcorn, then add a pinch of salt and mix together with a wooden spoon.
4. Split the dough into golf size balls and place them onto a large flat baking tray with baking paper/grease proof paper. Lightly flatten each of the dough balls and press the remaining popcorn into the top of the dough.
5. Bake the cookies for about 15-20 minutes (but I would check them at about 10 minutes just to be safe). leave the cookies on the tray to cool for 2-3 minutes then transfer them to a cooling rack.
6. Now, you can melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of boiling water then drizzle it over the top, which I forgot to do...
Princess Cupcakes:
100g Sugar
100g Butter
100g Self Raising Flour
2 Large Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla Essence
Cupcake casings
Method:
1.Add the sugar and butter into a mixing bowl and whisk them both together until light and fluffy. Then add the two eggs and whisk again until all combined.
2.Pour in the flour and whisk again until all the mixture is combined and add 1tsp of vanilla essence.
3.Once all the mixture is combined together, add your cake casings into a pudding tin (I doubled the casings over so the mixture didn't spill out.) Then spoon the mixture equally into each of the cases.
TIP:Don't fill the cases right to the top, you have got to give them enough room to be able to rise and so they don't spill over the cases.
4.Place into the oven at around 180(Fan) for around 15-20 minutes. To make sure the cakes are cooked, place a knife into the middle of one of the cakes, if no mixture is left on the knife, they are ready.
5. Leave to cool on a cooling rack for about 25-30 minutes before decorating. I used the butter icing recipe from the back of the icing sugar box (which I put in the bin so I can't remember the brand but it is in a pink box).
I used a piping bag to do my icing which you can get from any supermarket I think. Then used some pink and purple sprinkles from home bargains to place on top of my cakes too. The cake boxes were two for 50p from Tesco if you were wondering.
So that is how I made both of these and they were delicious!! I would suggest eating the cookies within 2-3 days of baking them as the popcorn goes a bit dry and soggy after a while, other than that I really enjoyed baking them and eating them hahah!!
I hope you enjoyed this post and if you bake these send me your pictures I would love to see the end product!!
Have a great weekend
Melishia x
