A pink and girly cake, for the new girly in our family (that's extended family folks, don't get excited)

As well as the new chicks which arrived recently, a much more exciting and important family member has been welcomed to the clan.  Handsome husband's uncle and his wife have adopted a 3 year old little girl after years and years of longing for children.  It's such wonderful news and it was a real treat to finally meet her.  They live in Germany which means a recent visit over was our first opportunity to meet the loveliness that is Darling boy and Little brother's new cousin.

In honour of our new cousin's first visit to Devon, I baked her a 'Welcome to the Family' cake.  Since I have two boys, I got pretty excited about the chance to 'go girly'.  I was feeling in a novelty mood, so shaped the cake in the silhouette of our new cousin's initial (making good use of my new bundt tin too)  The glittery pink buttercream icing went down a storm, as did the sweeties all over it and the chocolate sponge inside.

In a glitter daze

It may be a wet, nearly spring day out there, but I'm busy planning the summer weddings cupcake orders I have got coming up. One bride is having a cream and burgundy theme for her wedding cupcakes, topped with a giant cupcake. The order calls for a burgundy glitter, a shade I do not currently have. So off I pop to one of my new favourite on-line shops, called fantastically, www.edible-glitter.co.uk to browse their amazing collection of glitter and decorations. Yum. My collection of colours is fairly substantial, but a girl can always have more!