Food!

This is an old post, from an old blog - just moving things around!

Food is a big part of the Hoskins life! Out for dinner and trying new things

However, there is nothing quite like making something yourself to share with friends and family so this will be the first of many posts about food we have made!

First - look at these disasterous cupcakes! These were made with our niece and nephew and tasted fine but they look awful! I dont know what we did wrong, but I thought I would post them to show that even when things go wrong, whack some sprinkles on them and eat them anyway!

Triumph!

This however felt like somewhat of a triumph. Inside is a chocolate sponge cake with chocolate fondant icing in the middle. You could make your own easily, but you could just as simply use a Betty Crocker ready made packet mix!
Once it was cooked, cooled and put together I smeared the remaining icing around the outside so that I had something to stick the chocolate fingers to. To give you a rough idea of size, this is a regular dinner plate - the cake tins were 20cm?? - and it took two packets of fingers to go round the ouside.
The berries on the top were fresh and delish, and we served the whole thing with cream so that it was more like a pudding than a cake as such!

I LOVE gingerbread!

Gingerbread is super easy to make whether you are an experienced baker or not. I used the following recipe this time but there are often recipes in childrens books, on the back of the brown sugar packet, on the back of the gingerbread man cutter box and so on!

As it was Christmas we decided gingerbread SNOWmen were on the cards. Below are two images - one used ready to roll icing that we then cut with the same gingerbread man cutter and laid on top (with a tiny bit of water to make it stick!) and then we decorated. The other is using icing sugar and water to make a sort of paste that we thought looked more like snow! It all depends on how much time, space, effort you have to make! They went down a storm at the family christmas gatherings!