Bankford wedding spectacular

So I was incredibly proud when Libby & Jon asked me to make cakes for their wedding.

We got a big lemon and poppy seed cake from Peyton & Byrne, and added edible flowers.

I made piles of mini Victoria Sponges with fresh strawberries,
whipped cream and a dusting of icing sugar.

HUGE thanks to Serena, Catrin and Rachel for helping assemble them.

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Mini Victoria sponges for Tanya

I made some mini Victoria sponge cakes for Tanya's birthday this weekend.

I used my usual vanilla cupcake recipe, cutting the cakes in half
before filling with whipped cream and slices of strawberry.

As a finishing touch I made little T stencils and dusted the cakes with icing sugar.

And I packaged them up in one of the brilliant leopard print
cake boxes Emma got me for Christmas.

Here's Tanya eating one of her cakes!

Almond cookies with green tea cream

My mum got me an amazing book for my birthday called

1001 Cupcakes, Cookies & Other Tempting Treats,
and these almond cookies with green tea cream were requested by Scott.

You make a basic sweet cookie dough and chill it in the fridge.

One half is rolled and cut out normally, while the other is rolled
with a layer of flaked almonds so they get embedded in the dough.

Meanwhile you make a thick cream by infusing hot milk with green tea,
before adding sugar, custard powder and cream cheese.

Then you sandwich them all together with the almond side on top.

My green tea cream is more apricot-coloured than green,
but it still tastes good.