Pancakes!

 Yay! It's Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day! I love pancakes, they are just so nice! :)

This is the recipe I use:

• 100g plain flour
• 2 eggs
• 300ml milk
• oil or fat

Whisk together the flour, eggs and milk. This is the pancake batter. Then put the oil or fat into a frying pan and heat until melted. Add a small amount of the batter into the pan and cook. Once bubbles start to appear on the top of the batter flip with a spatula. When both sides are done take out of the pan and onto a plate. Repeat. When all the batter is cooked serve with a topping of your choice. I usually have maple syrup of lemon juice and sugar.

The best thing is that you can add any filling you want. Once I had a really lovely cheese and garlic mushroom one. Yum! :)

Christmas Cake

 For the festive season, I was put in charge of making the Christmas cake. It was simple to make and very tasty! :)

 The recipe I used was: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/traditionalchristmas_14567

 For decoration I used:

• Marzipan
• White fondant
• Green fondant
• Red fondant

I simply iced the cake with a layer of mazipan then white fondant and smoothed it down with my hands for an even finish. Then using a picture from google images I cut out some holly leaves from the green fondat and set them in place with a little water. Finally I rolled some tiny berries from the red fondant and again fixed them in place with a tiny amount of water. This was the final product:
 

I really liked the final design and hope to do more cake decoration like this. :)