Decorating Buns

After our success at making pizza's, I thought I'd give cake decorating a go with Kiki.

Whilst she was down for a nap, I made some vanilla buns, cupcakes, or whatever current name is.

I used a recipe from Netmums:

Fairy cakes or cupcakes - here's our simple but delicious recipe for making these little sponge cakes. They are perfect for any treat including birthday parties. For some great ideas on how to decorate your fairy cake take a look through our inspiring fairy cake decorating and topping photos for ideas. 

• 100g/4 oz butter (softened)
• 100g/4 oz SR flour
• 100g/4 oz caster sugar
• 2 eggs

Put the oven on first - on medium (Gas 4/180 C/170C fan).

Whisk all the ingredients until creamy and spoon into a bun tin or bun cases. It makes 12.

Cook for about 10 - 15 minutes until cooked. To check they are cooked just press gently and they should spring back.

Once cooled, the cakes can be decorated.

 The only difference being that I added some vanilla extract.

I again covered the table with a taped down black bag and set up our decorating station. I used a muffin tin that had 6 sections, adding some different decorations to each one. I also made some glacé icing and coloured it red.

I originally gave Kiki a teaspoon to put icing on the buns, but she ended up just shovelling it in her mouth! I then tried a pastry brush to paint it on, that worked better.

 End results