Recipes

Mother’s Day Cake Serves 8 INGREDIENTS: 115g butter, room temperature, plus extra for greasing 150g caster sugar 3 extra-large (60g each) eggs 175g plain flour 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda 125g low-fat natural yoghurt 1 tsp vanilla bean paste To Decorate: Store-bought buttercream 12 x savoiardi (ladyfinger) biscuits Pink and white Dollar Sweets sprinkles White chocolate melts Fresh berries Ribbon and rose petals METHOD: Preheat oven to 180ºC (160ºC fan). Grease a 16cm round ba

Makes 1 Bouquet (plus 6 extra cupcakes for the cooks!) For this recipe you will need 12 x cupcake cups, green cupcake liners, disposable piping bags and decorative tips, an opaque decorative vase or bucket, weights to fill the vase/bucket (we used pastry weights), a large styrofoam ball (big enough to sit just inside the top of the vase/bucket), coloured tissue paper and paddle pop sticks. INGREDIENTS Store-bought vanilla frosting or buttercream Food colouring gel (assorted c