Dinosaur cupcakes!

These were made with my usual cupcake recipe, the same frosting as last time (dyed green with liquid green food colouring) and dinosaurs crafted out of ready-rolled coloured icing (:
To make the dinosaurs, I just rolled out pieces to the right shapes. I cut part of the head out and used thick white icing to fill it in (to make the teeth), then I used a sharp knife to create the zig-zap pattern. I used a small tube of black icing for the eyes (although, I later realised using an edible black pen would probably work better). The pieces were stuck together using water (:

(the other little red dinosaur you see is my boyfriend's creation xD :P)

Cupcakes

Decided to have a go at piping, so I made some cupcakes (using the usual recipe). I then found a recipe for vanilla frosting (which I'll post later when I have to book to hand).

I found the piping quite fun, although not all of it was very neat! I used a disposable plastic piping bag, and a star shaped nozzle. The frosting was yummy (:

The cakes altogether went down very well with my best friend and my boyfriend, so I'm counting them as a success!

Chocolate cake

I saw this posted on a form and it looked so good that I had to try making it!
Here's the recipe and instructions (:

Cake ingredients:
1 ½ cups plain flour
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2/3 cups sour cream
1 ½ sticks of softened butter (200g sticks)
1/3 cup cocoa
2 eggs

Icing ingredients:

6 ounces dark chocolate
¾ stick butter
1 tablespoon corn syrup/golden syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup sour cream
2 ½ cups icing sugar

Method:

Preheat oven to 350 Farehneit
Put all the ingredients for the cake into a food processor and blend
Pour into two 8 inch round cake tins and bake for half an hour or until cooked through
Cool slightly in the tins then transfer to wire cooling rack to until cold.

When the cake is cold, you can make the icing:

• Melt the butter and chocolate in a bowl over a pan of hot water.
• Allow to cool slightly and add the golden syrup and sour cream, stir well
• Put roughly a third of the icing onto one of the cakes and spread until about half an inch from the edge then place the other cake on top.
• Take another third of the icing and spread it over the top of the cake
• Coat the sides of the cake with the remaining third of the icing using a palette knife.

It turned out ok, tasted amazing, but the icing was very runny compared to what it should've been like. Will definitely try it again though!