Haven't blogged for a few weeks, been really busy planning and stuff. Haven't even done any skywatching for weeks, it's been rather cloudy. That said, my other half thought he was pointing Orion out to me - er nope. Think he just saw a bright star and that was it. He obviously knows even less than me, thank goodness!

Anyway, will be blogging soon with some photos.

Here's some photos of the cupcakes I made the other week, again recipe from the Hummingbird Bakery cookbook. The Marshmallow cupcakes didn't seem to have enough frosting to coat the marshmallows, so if I made these again, I'd add a little more frosting or use less mini marshmallows. My daughter says these are her very favourite cupcake that I've made so far. The pic is a bit blurred really, but here is a pic of a single cupcake. I also made lots of others, some chocolate, some vanilla and some lemon flavour ones.

I've also been enjoying making some biscuits these particular ones are called 'Melting Moments' and the recipe came from a Mary Berry book. They really do melt in the mouth and once again the team in work seemed to enjoy them and my family definitely do like them, so they will become a regular in my repetoire.

Anyway, still haven't found out what the mega moon is but I'll be back with an update.

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Thought I'd update my blog. Been doing lots of baking and have taken lots of photos, quality not too good (the photos not the cakes)!! I'm still going to put photos on in case anybody is interested in having a quick look.

Cupcakes and cake pops are what I've been baking, also a couple of banana loaves and also a 'Blondie', this is a Brownie but with white chocolate instead of dark/milk chocolate. The cupcakes and banana loaf recipes are from the 'Hummingbird Bakery' cook book and the cake pops I actually Googled to see what they were. I follow Angelcupcakes1 on Twitter and they posted about making Cake Pops. After looking at the photos they had posted, I did a bit more research and came up with lots of videos on You Tube and some other sites, showing exactly what they are and how to make them.

So last week my first crop of Cake Pops was created. First I baked a plain old chocolate victoria sandwich cake, let it cool then broke it up into pieces. Then I added some vanilla flavour frosting mixed it all together then let it cool in the fridge for an hour. After an hour, the mix was then formed into balls and then put in the freezer for a couple of hours. I then added the sticks and decorated with white chocolate and milk chocolate.

I took them into work the next day and I must say they went down a storm. I asked everybody for constructive feedback as I'd never made them before and was pleased with the comments, although one person did comment that dark chocolate would be a nice contrast with the sweetness of the cake inside. Obviously, there are lots of ways to decorate them and lots of different flavour cake you can use, so I'm going to be experimenting a bit more.

On a different note, keep seeing mentions of a 'megamoon', so I'm off to try and find out what it's all about. When I have found out what it is, I'll let you know.

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