its the weekend

Yippee its the weekend and nerly time for the kids to return to school, I for one will enjoy the normaility on monday I love my routine and find that i can get very little done when the kids are on hols as the teenagers tend to stay in bed till nearly midday which makes hoovering n tidying a nightmare so on monday there will be a major cleaning session going on,

I have been very good and have resisted the tempation to do any baking for myself but I did manage to make a fabby looking n smelling coffee cake which I really wanted to eat but thankfully it had a better home to go to.

but i have been googling recipes to try out when the diet phase has passed some coffee eclairs and mint choc cupcakes are next on my list as soon as I get my motivation back as it has taken a battering with christmas and I won a fabby Dr Oetker hamper on facebook before christmas so I cant wait to use all my goodies for valentines,
so for the time been ketlebells and school runs well mammys taxi is back in action

no pain no gain

Well it's that time of yr again time to dust off the tracksuit and trainers and head back to the gym for some serious torture, I was doing so well until I done 1 too many 10ks for charity and busted my SI joint which has managed to set me bk alot no more running or walking for me,
I was doing kettlebells and the trx combo but had to give up in the run up to christmas due to injury and kids been sick but on the 3rd of jan i returned and I have now done 3 days in a row and wow am I sore I ache in places I never knew I had muscles it hurts to stand up, to walk up the stairs n to laugh my poor stomach is in bits but as they say no pain no gain well I had better b gaining some muscle tightness soon.

jan blues

Well january is normally quiet but no not for me my brothers birthday is in jan and he was home for christmas but would be gone before his birthday and he normally asks for a choc cake as a pressie so it had to be made for the 1st jan as he was travelling bk in the early hours of the 2nd, I love making this choc cake as its so yummy and I very rarely eat my bakes but i do indulge in this one when i get the chance
I also made some baileys choc cupcakes and I didnt go mad on the baileys but these were heaven in a case omg

needless to say my diet will have to wait but what a way to start the new year with some yummy treats

christmas madness

I am making a new years resolution to make an effort to get my blog off the ground this year lol in between my baking and gym effort
I was mega busy in the run up to christmas with cakes and sick kids and my lack of motivation for christmas shopping so it had all to be done together which is so not like me I became the Grinch this year lol

Right onto my alternative christmas cakes I made a few of these with a few different designs the first is my mothers, these were a joy to make and the kids loved helping out

My own one was decorated by my daughter as you can see her love of moshi monsters took over the design

These are so easy to make they can be made in the space of a few hours the choc bikkie cake just needs time to set in the fridge before decorating as we are not fruit cake lovers

I made a Baileys and Chocolate Cheesecake for dessert for christmas day and my daughter was helping me and omg poured way to much baileys into the mix lol it was a very boozy dessert buy very yummy

as you can see there wasn't much left after the dinner
I was asked for some yule logs as presents this year so viola here is one pre decoration with the chocloate holly leaves as batteries went in camera

I must get my ass in gear and get writing on this every week
have been busy experimenting in the kitchen the past few weeks
we were making christmas tree bikkies, the kids love cutting these out
and decorating them as it allows them to go mad my kitchen table was a mess
but the kids were having a ball it kept them quiet for hours

 Then i decided to give elmo a try it was very hard to get black food paste so i had some black gel that i used for the eyes and i really enjoyed making these

 And this is my 1st attempt at making kermit, seeing as the muppets movie is been released soon and seeing miss piggy on the x factor gave me all the motivation i needed but i need to practise lol

madness

where so i begin it has been total and utter madness here since the bank holiday weekend at halloween between the christening and my daughter getting the chicken poxs and hubbie getting the flu its amazing how the man flu can nearly kill you lol and the boys had the vomitting bug so my house was pretty infected
but before all the sickness we had the christening and here are my little creations for the kids to nibble on and they went down a treat

busy busy busy

its been hetic all last week what with sick kids, and my daughter had her friend over for a sleepover that lasted for 3 days  i haven't had much time to myself, but i did manage to make chocolate eclairs and fairy cakes that the girls spent hours decorating,
I bought them marsmallows, choc which i melted, smarties, googy eyeballs, orange and black sugarpaste, a floral embossing mat, various food pastes and icing sugar, and halloween jellies i must say it was the quietest i have ever heard them all weekend .i left them alone to decorate their cupcakes and they were brill uinfortuantely my camera let me down as i ran out of batteries to record their efforts but they will b at it again this weekend.