Baking Fun

In the weekend I decided to get my bake on and make some cupcakes and golden syrup biscuits for my Father in law for Father's day! So fun!

Ok, so I cheated with the cupcakes a little and used a Ducan Hines Confetti Cupcake mix, but I did make a delicious butter cream icing for the top!

Butter Cream Icing Recipe

Ingredients

185g Butter, softened

2 1/4 cups icing sugar mixture

2 tablespoons milk

Method

Using an electric mixer, beat butter in a bowl until pale. Gradually add icing sugar mixture and milk, beating constantly until combined.

I decorated the cupcakes with red and orange crushed M&M's and I made little flag cupcake toppers which I got from Little Paper Dog Blogspot (so cute)

The golden syrup biscuits were so delicious, I recommend you make these asap! I put M&M's in mine, which was simply amazing.

Golden Syrup Biscuits Recipe

Ingredients

100g Sugar

100g Butter

1 Tbsp Golden Syrup

75g Self Raising Flour

M&M's (or Chocolate chips, mini marshmallows etc)

Another 75g Self Raising Flour

Method:

1. Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees. Mix the sugar and butter together to make a paste

2. Add the golden syrup

3. Add the first 75g of flour and the M&M's (or chocolate chips). Mix together

4. Add and mix the last 75g of flour

5. Arrange on a baking tray in 10-12 blobs, don't flatten them

6. Put them in the oven at 180 degrees for 12 - 15 minutes

NB: I always bake mine for exactly 12 minutes, even though they don't look really brown, they brown up once you take them out of the oven, also note as soon as you take them out of the oven they will be VERY soft, leave them on the tray for a couple of minutes before attempting to transfer to a cooling rack.

Old to New: Chair & Foot Stool

Josh recently found an old retro Eames style chair in our garage (of my Nana's), Josh thought it would be a great idea to re-upholster the chair and I wanted to be part of it! We then managed to find a sweet foot stool at a local second hand store (The Charity Barn) for a couple of dollars. Check out our makeover:

The foot stool was pretty easy to do, Josh basically cut a square of fabric wrapped around and stapled, we used the same method for the bottom of the chair also. For the top part of the chair we cut the chair shape out of the grey fabric and I sewed up the sides (using heavy grey thread on a wide stitch). We then pulled it tight over the chair and stapled at the bottom to attach.

Fabric - purchased from Spotlight and
Staple gun - a must if you plan to re-upholster anything!

Josh then spray painted the legs, and voila!

A super stylish chair and foot stool!