Today I am hosting a ladies brunch for one of my dearest friend's birthday. All of my friends are getting pretty tired and a bit fed up with harvest and the endless hours of work being done by their husbands. So I thought a little celebration would be a nice idea.
I have decided to use all of my best "Nanna Style" china and want things to look all lovely and flowery.
I managed to find these gorgeous cupcake cases.
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| Gorgeous Nanna Style Patty Pan |
Whilst they may be super cute, they are also about half a cupcake larger than the cases I would usually use.
I busily got baking yesterday afternoon.
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| Busy Baking Scene In The Farmhouse Kitchen |
Unfortunately I misjudged the baking time due to the bigger cases. Or The Baking Gods were frowning on me. Either way I pulled cupcakes out of the oven that looked like this.
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| Cupcake With Big Crater In Middle |
I quickly whipped up another batch and made a few adjustments and had a little word with The Baking Gods. The next lot looked like this.
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| Lovely Craterless Cupcake |
Unfortunately there are not enough nice ones. I can't be bothered baking anymore. I have a couple of standard recovery methods from baking failures. The first is to give everyone enough champagne that they don't even notice
. The second is to cover the failed baked goods with mountains of whipped cream and rose petals...
Here is a photo of how I rescued some dodgy cupcakes and turned them into Farmgirl's Christening Cake.
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| Puddings At Farmgirl's Christening |
I am going to get onto the whipped cream first thing this morning.
If all else fails I have one other plan.... Fussy Eater's Mum is coming today and has made this beautiful
chocolate ball tree. If I can't come up with anything else I am going to give people
lots of champagne. And try and persuade them I made it.
