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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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