Say it with cake - Baker Days review

On Saturday morning a cake dropped through my door... a letterbox cake!! When I told the hubby what it was his words were 'good look with that!'. I had to admit it did sound pretty crazy that a cake could drop through your door, make it in one piece and taste good! But thats what Baker Days do and very well might I add! 

Weather its personalised birthday cakes, Good Luck, Well done, congratulations or just last minute cupcakes Baker Days do it and can deliver so the cakes are with you the very next day!

It came beautifully packaged in a metal tin  along with some love hearts..

Wrapped up with super easy instructions of how to remove the cake in one piece...

I chose a cake for my husband just to remind him of how much I love him. I really like the bright side designs and my wedding planner was the same design so it reminded me of that :)

The cake was surprisingly moist and tasty. We cut the cake for 5 of us and the pieces were perfect sizes. And just to make it clear these are not like supermarket cakes, they are not dry or crumbly. They are all handmade, soft, moist and perfectly tasty.

Fresh, light and tasty just how we like them...

I would recommend Baker Days for any occasion, in fact I think these cakes would go down better than flowers.  I think they are good value for money when you take into consideration, the excellent packaging, next day delivery, the quality of the designs and the tastiness of the cakes.

This would definitely brighten up my day picking up one if these off the door mat with a special message inside. Or if your quick you could get one just in time for Valentines Day...

Atlantic #Barstool competition entry

Atlantic Shopping are currently running a competition and have 5 vouchers up for grabs to spend on their site. All you have to do is choose a photo that you would have a on bar stool and say why you choose that one. Entries can be made via facebook twitter or a blog post.

It's really got me thinking about what I would have. My favourite pictures are of my children but it just doesn't seem right sitting on a barstool with your children's face on! In fact I don't particularly like any furniture with people's faces on, I just think its abit tacky. Plus I don't think when they get to teenagers they would sit on the barstools if they had pictures of themselves on!

Its got to fit in with the kitchen and the decor as you change it over the years. Its got to fit with the seasons, a wintery image wouldn't cheer your days up in the summer and vice versa.

I thought about my bouquet of flowers on my wedding day, or pictures of my favourite places in Italy or of the Eiffel tower from when we visited, my children's handprints and fingerprints. The list really is endless of favourite things. Then I thought food...

Most of our time spent in the kitchen is because of food, either preparing, eating baking and cooking. So I thought images of my favourite foods. Or of the favourite cakes I've baked. I think they will fit just right in the kitchen.

These are my favourite cupcakes I have made,mainly because I love shoes! Food and shoes we're on to a winner really :)

I think the ET on this is possibly the best icing model I have ever made, I was so proud of it! So it would be a nice reminder of what I have created.

Do you ever grow out of Wallace and Gromit?

Yummy warm food, this is a favourite in our house too and fun food always cheers you up whatever the weather or the season.

Bright, fresh food to liven up the kitchen, I love this picture it was taken in the summer, its just bright and juicy. Of all the pictures this is really the one I can imagine best. I have a cream kitchen so with this on the barstools it would really brighten the place up and inject a nice bright colour.

All these pictures would really get my creative juices going in the kitchen not to mention my tastebuds!

Which picture would you choose if you had to choose on of these?

Weekly weigh in

One of my resolutions this year is to loose weight, in fact I want to be around 10 stone by the end of the year. I plan on doing this with plenty of exercise and good food choices.

I did weekly weigh in last year but gave up at the beginning of December when all the festivities started.

This week I am reviewing the exante diet and have my meals planned out for the next 7 days. I'm hoping its going to give me a real boost that I need to get me on my way.

 This morning I started with a banana shake which was actually delicious. The diet recommends at least 20 mins of exercise each day and to drink 2 litres of water.

If you fancy joining me on the exante diet there's a groupon deal at the moment with a 68% discount. There are only 2 days left to buy. I will be doing a full review when I've finished though.

I weighed myself this morning and I knew it was going to be bad, I ate so much chocolate over the Christmas period and had many meals out. When I stood on the scales I weighed 13st, I'm really disappointed in myself that I put 7lb on over Christmas. 

Is anyone else trying to loose weight, leave your links and I will follow your progress!

Furniture Choice come dine with me menu

Ok so I'm not inviting everyone to come to my house for dinner! This is my entry to furniture choice's blogging competition, who are giving away some fabulous prizes.

everyone that knows us, knows that we love a good fancy dress up! So the theme would be famous couples and as we are Victoria and David we would have to be the ever so famous Beckhams... naturally. 

I would dress the room in an Italian style with olives in little ramekin dishes and bread sticks at the table. And I would put olive branches in vases. Its would be a very calm theme which would be a great contrast to the loud fancy dress. 

So after we have dressed in our super stylish clothes and piled on all our millions of pounds worth of jewellery we would start our super tasty Italian Menu. We got married in Italy so its the obvious choice of menu for us. For our wedding meal we had a really laid back menu in fact some guest had chips with their meal, whilst others just had a massive pizza! Carry on reading to get your taste buds going!

Menu

Starters

Bruschetta with Tomato and Basil 

Main

Original Spaghetti Bolognese

(includes carrots, celery and red wine)

Dessert

Super strawberry and meringue Sundae

Afters

A Lemonchello drink

Our Entertainment would be good old fashioned charades and quiet relaxing music in the background. After all I think our guests will be noisy enough. 

Our guests would have a fabulous time and we would expect to open the door to some creative outfits, but just in case our guests got stuck they could dress as:

Mr and Mrs Incredible

Minnie and mickey

Shrek and Fiona

Ahem... I'm hungry now! Who would you come dressed as if you were invited to my dinner party?

How to make delicious Millionaires cake

I've being baking and cooking everyday this week. I'm like a women on a mission and I'm supposed to be on a diet, so its not a great combination! I made these yesterday and they taste devine so I thought I would share my recipe with you!

Here's what you will need;

250g plain biscuits 

160g butter (for the base)

400g tin of sweetened condensed milk 

125g butter (for the caramel)

90g caster sugar

115g golden syrup

250g milk chocolate (cadburys works well)

Start by lining a tray with foil and greasing with butter. Then crush the biscuits and mix with the butter. I usually melt the butter its much easier to mix. Then press into the tray. Put it in the fridge whilst you make the caramel.

Next combine the condensed milk, butter, sugar and golden syrup in a pan and stir on a low heat for about 25 minutes.

When the sugar has dissolved and the mixture has thickened and changed to a darker brown colour it will be ready. Leave to cool slightly. I left for about 15mins

 

Spread out over the top of the biscuit and put in the fridge. Leave for about 1 hour or until the caramel has hardened (not hard just so its not sticky!) and cooled down.

Melt the chocolate in the pan and spread over the caramel and put back in the fridge until set.

Cut into pieces and devour!

I want to make marshmallows next. Anyone got any good recipes for them?