Pastry Wheels

The ingredients

Using a sheet of puff pastry and some household food spreads I created some tasty treats that my family really enjoy. I cut the pastry in half and planned to do two different fillings, one savoury and the other sweet.

Sprinkling cheese over tomato puree

   For the savoury wheel, I spread tomato puree, mixed herbs and cheese on the pastry. Next I rolled it up into a thin tube before brushing over a glaze and cutting into 1cm wheels.

For the sweet wheels, I thickly layered peanut butter over the pastry before tightly rolling, cutting and baking for 20 minutes, when the pastry was golden brown.

Cutting up the Peanut Butter Wheels

The finished Puff Pastry Wheels tasted delicious hot or cold! They all fell over but it didn't affect the taste :) 
 

The cooked Pastry Wheels

   

  

Melting Moments

Spooning out the mixture

   These biscuits were very light and melted in your mouth – so I must have done something right! I beat margarine and icing sugar together before adding an egg. Next I sifted plain flour and cornflour, rolled into small balls and pressed with a fork. Once cooked to a pale gold I left them to cool on a wire rack. 

Sandwiching the biscuits together

   

   For the filling, I made a simple buttercream then added the rind and juice of 1 lemon. This made the buttercream very runny and I should have used less lemon juice. Lastly I sandwiched the cream between two biscuits!

The finished biscuits!

Daisy Meadow Cupcakes

   I whipped up a simple strawberry bun mixture and carefully spooned the mixture into floral cupcake cases. Whilst the cakes were in the oven I rolled out white fondant icing and used two different size flower cutters to cut out enough flowers to cover all of the cakes. Then I used a ball tool to press the centre of the flower and ‘cup’ the petals. 

Cutting out the flowers

'Cupping' the petals

The finished flowers

   Next I used yellow icing to create the centre of the flowers. As soon as the cakes were cool enough I covered them with green buttercream and used a fork to create a grass effect. Using gel icing pens I stuck the centre of the flowers in place and gently pushed the flowers onto the cupcakes.

The finished cupcakes

A close up of the daisy's

 

Lemon Biscuits

Here's my very first post! Last week I thought I'd make some lemon biscuits to get into spring!

 

I followed the recipe in my mums' recipe book but added lemon zest and juice to flavour before sifting in the flour. I think that because I added the lemon juice the dough was very soft and impossible to roll, shape or move. So I had to add lots of flour by rolling the dough until it was firm enough to cut out shapes. As is spring, I found some rabbit cutters and although they were detailed, when the dough was firm enough, they held their shape. 

Here are all the ingredients I used

Cutting out the rabbit shapes

The cooked biscuits!

   For the icing, I made a simple glace icing but split the mixture into two, colouring one half yellow. It was a viscous consistency and I drizzled the icing off the spoon, outlining the biscuits. After thinning the icing with a splash more water I then ‘flooded’ the inside of the outline with the icing. I chose to do this to stop the icing running off the edge; it didn’t always work though!

I used yellow and white glace icing

Here is one of the finished rabbits!

Introduction to Me!

Hi! My name's Gemma and I'm a student from Norfolk and I'm a member of Girlguiding. I've created this blog as part of my Queens Guide Award  and my Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award (DofE) with the purpose of showing people my decorated cakes, cupcakes and biscuits. Please leave a comment as I love to know what you think!