Happy Birthday Mum

It was Mum's birthday yesterday and as well as her present, I decided to bake her some cupcakes as her birthday cake when she went to work. They were my first successful cupcakes! As in they looked, felt and tasted like they're meant to (in the past they have usually come out weighing a tonne and looking like scones. Not good). So anyway, here they are!

I also found these on my phone from Easter...

It's a white chocolate cake that I made with BBC Good Food's recipe which you can find here.

There are a lot of negative comments about it on the recipe page but I decided to give it a go anyway and, considering I am in no way a good baker, it did come out well (and tasted delicious). I screwed the icing up a little but that was my fault for overbeating. 

Tip: the recipe says an hour in the oven but I gave it a good 1 and a half after turning it down about 10 degrees. Even then it could have done with longer! So even if it looks done, keep inserting that skewer!