Mini Rivers' Birthday Cake

In February, George's little sister turned 4 years old. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to have a party for one reason and another so last weekend, 25 four year olds descended upon the garden, complete with a pink princess castle bouncy castle, with a slide! Her mum, Pam had plans for a pretty extravagant cake which I ended up helping with. Izzy loves Sylvanian Families so Pam had bought a bunny with a rowing boat and picnic to fit the 'summery theme' of the party - shame it drizzled most of the day. 

The cake was a yellow cake (Pam's recipe) with buttercream icing, sugar flowers, edible glitter, flags, sugar frog, chocolate dock & dolly sweets edging to the pond. Too much? Never. 

Izzy loved the cake & that's pretty much all there is to this post! No recipe this week, just simply showing off!

Do you mojito?

In my second year at Uni I was lucky enough to land a student brand ambassador role with Bacardi; I ran events and marketing campaigns in and around campus aimed at students to advertise Bacardi as a brand and in particular, the Bacardi Mojito. Alas, amongst other things, part of the job was learning to make the perfect mojito and so naturally, I had to drink a few - what a pity.

This weekend my school friends had a bit of a reunion as three have just come back from travelling, two of us have recently graduated - the gang is back together again. We all had to bring something, so naturally, I brought baked goodies, but as the first thing I've made for my home friends I wanted to do something special. So what better than the original party drink a mojito in cupcake form to give them a taste in my own special way of what I've been doing at Uni!

And so my Mojito Cupcakes came about.

I actually started off making a friend's mum's recipe, however I wasn't happy with how they turned out and so decided to go back and make up my own recipe using my usual cupcake recipe and knowledge of the perfect mojito recipe. I was really pleased with the outcome and they seemed to go down pretty well - there's only 5 out of 30 left!

I used lime and mint in the actual cupcakes and added rum to the icing and buttercream frosting.

Click here for my Mojito Cupcakes recipe.