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Good evening Blog, I spent quite a few hours baking Easter presents for my friends and family. Check it out!

Easter Egg Nests

This is a vanilla cupcake decorated with chocolate flakes and mini chocolate eggs, to resemble a birds nest. The chocolate flakes were quite fiddly, but they turned out alright.




Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing

Ah, these were quite the challenge to make. I learnt quite a bit from these. Like cookie dough won't expand in the oven if it is chilled. Some ended up being the same size as the cookie cutter, others expanded to mammoth proportions.
I also learnt how to make royal icing. It was also the perfect chance to use sprinkles.

Triple Chocolate Muffins

I had lots of trouble with these. Oh, it's really quite an embarrassing tale. See the chocolate egg on top? They were originally supposed to be baked inside the muffin.
The first batch burnt (they had eggs inside). They were left in for the full 25 minutes that the recipe suggested. Turns out they're cooked at 15 minutes. I simply forgot to put the eggs in before the second batch went in the oven. So I stuck the eggs on with a dollop of double cream. They actually look quite lovely like that.

This was the largest baking project I've undertaken so far. The most challenging before would of been the Chocolate Peanut Butter Kisses that I baked my beloved for Valentines day. Pictures!

They were coated with white chocolate, milk chocolate and dark chocolate. Then the milk and dark chocolate ones had white chocolate piped over them. The white chocolate ones had milk chocolate with some white chocolate (I had lots of white chocolate left) mixed in piped over them.

Hmm, what will my next project be? I'm not sure, perhaps I'll make that paper mache Zeplin or Tyreal pinata...