Baking and sweet making for two events – My Mum’s Birthday next week, and my friend’s 40th.
I am heading to York at the weekend to stay over at my friend’s house and take her for a spa day as an early birthday celebration. It is also my mum’s birthday at the start of next week, so I used both occasions as a reason to try some recipes and put together some treat boxes.
I used some recipes that are my own, and then others that I got from other bakers for inspiration (linked when I used someone else’s recipe)
Lemon Cakesicles
These were made using offcuts of a cake I made earlier this month. I crumbled the cake into crumbs and then mixed it with lemon buttercream and lemon curd. I use a silicon mold to shape the cake into the popsicle shape, and let them freeze. Once ready, they were coated in white chocolate that was coloured with some pink and yellow oil-based colouring to get the marble effect.
I have cakesicle boxes which I popped them into as they look a tad nicer:
Carrot Cake Truffles
I made a small carrot cake using 1/3 of this loaf recipe from Jane’s Patisseie. The cake was then just crumbled up and mixed with some ginger conserve and cream cheese to form the truffle filling. I rolled into balls, then put in the freezer to solidify. Once ready, I melted whote chocolate to coat them and finished with biscuit crumbs.
Vanilla Sugar Cookie Flowers
This recipe came directly from Chelsweets and worked amazingly well.
It’s quite a “simple” recipe, that ends up looking so cute. The longest time was rolling the small balls of dough, but it was worth it.
I finished by Cookies by adding some edible “paint” (as above) but they look just as nice without the shiny parts too:
Fudge
When I make treat boxes, I nearly always make easy-fudge recipes. This time I used one can of condensed milk to make 2 different versions.
I separated them in a baking tin with some foil and greaseproof paper so I didn’t have to wash as many pans.
White Chocolate Speculoos Fudge:
– 250g White Chocolate
– 199g Condensed Milk
– Crushed speculoos buscuits
Milk Chocolate Orange Fudge with Oreo Pieces
– 225g Milk Chocolate
– 199g Condensed Milk
– Oreo Cookie Crumbles
It’s a really easy recipe as all you do is melt the chocolate & add the condensed milk & fillings before chilling for 6 hours+. This was the two blocks taken straight out of the tin before I cut into squares:
Meringue Hearts & Chicks
I used the idea from Chelsweets from her Easter cookie boxes, but used a vegan meringue recipe from Loving it Vegan as I had aquafaba to use.
I love these cute little guys!
I tried to make some pink hearts (that didn’t quite look as I pictured them in my head) so I painted a purple heart on top too.
I LOVED how the chicks turned out, even though I did forget to give them wings! Here is everything before going into the oven
And how things looked when they had baked & cooled:
I’ve put together 2 large treat boxes, 2 small ones, and still had loads spare for eating / sharing which are just in a tub:
