Engagement cake!

Recently, my brother and his girlfriend got engaged which was a perfect excuse to have a big celebration party. Inevitably there was a lot of planning to be done and as always I offered to make a cake. I thought after my Formula One cake I made for my brother and dad's birthday I'd try something simple. So after a look on Google and Pintrest for ideas I chose a design. The cake was a two tiered Victoria sponge, decorated with white roll out icing and white textured icing hearts and stars (you can't beat a good ol' victoria sponge ay! :D).
 I then bought two ribbons from a local cake decorating shop, put their names on the base and printed a silhouette of a couple (unfortunately I couldn't get an edible one in time).
 Although there were a a few glitches and disasters along the way I feel that it turned out quite nicely in the end, and the happy couple were defiantly happy with it along with the rest of the party.

For this recipe I used the same recipe that I have previously posted on cupcake posts however, with 250g of butter, sugar, flour and eggs (5 eggs) for the bottom cakes and 150g of each for the top cakes.
I really enjoyed trying out a new cake design and hope this has inspired you to have a go and challenge your baking skills.

Happy baking :P

Best day ever!

As you may already know I am a huge fan of a band called The Script. They have recently revealed that they are bringing out a fourth album named 'No Sound Without Silence', with their first single 'Superheroes' being released to radio on Monday 21st July 2014. As always new music means more promo and interviews. Last Monday they revealed that the single was being released on the BBC radio one breakfast show in London. So what better opportunity to go and try to meet them! After my friend kindly agreed to come with me we (got up....at a very early time) set off to London for the day.
As you can probably tell by now we did in fact get the chance to meet Danny, Mark and Glen from The Script after their interview, which of course was an amazing experience that I'll never forget. They were as always very grateful to see so many people there to meet them, and took the time to have a little chat with everyone there.

Although some may say that they're just people, I believe their music has helped and inspired me so much over the past few years to achieve and feel my best. Their use of honest and story like lyrics, I feel is an admirable quality to have in a band within the music industry today, and hope that there will be much more to come from them in the future.

I thought I'd share a few snaps I took on the day for anyone who's interested, thanks for reading :)

My Pictures with Glen, Danny and Mark. 

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