RecipeMuncher

Happy New Year!Many thanks to everyone for reading this blog and a special thank you to all those who made a recipe or commented on my posts. I’ve had a lovely blog break and am looking forward to 2011.I was going to do a round-up of my favourite recipes from 2010, but to be truthful, I enjoyed every recipe I made and really couldn’t decide. So instead I have done a year list in photos, where you

How are your cupcake decorating skills? Tesco’s have just launched a fabulous Christmas cupcake decorating competition, and two lucky winners will get to spend an afternoon cooking alongside a celebrity chef! There are also 10 runner up prizes of a cupcake decorating kit.I made some vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting, using the Tesco’s ‘Cupcake with Vanilla Frosting’ recipe. The recipe

This afternoon my kids, their best friends, and my sister's kids (who are roughly ten years older than mine, so they are my assistants in a way) will be decorating TONS of cookies I baked yesterday and am baking this morning. 

There will be royal icing in a proverbial rainbow of colors, all sorts of colored sugars and other sprinkley things, and at the end, a big mess and 6 trays of cookies - one per kid.

It should be a blast.

But right now, I'm up to my elbows in confectioner's sugar and cookie dough, so I must leave you for now.

Hope you're having a sparkling day, whatever you're doing!