Illustrated Recipe

I finally got around to making an illustrated recipe for the recipelook blog!  I was meaning to do it for ages.  Here's what I sent in:

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I've sent it in to them so I hope they show it!

To read more bout Victoria Stitch's baking day go here!

I was inspired to do this because the other day me and my friend made the nicest fairy cakes ever! They were wheat free and sugar free with cream cheese icing.  We  put a raspberry on the top and currants in them.  It's the first time I've made cakes without normal flour and sugar so I wasn't sure how they would turn out but I was pleasantly surprised!

Anyhow I thought it was about time that I drew some food that wasn't cake related so the other day I drew some buffet food instead:

Here we have salami and ham, chocolate covered strawberries, shrimps on biscuits and sausages on sticks.

I don't know why it's so satisfying drawing food?  But now I've made myself hungry so I'm going to go and find something to eat!

Til next time!

Frogs and Flamingos

Another part of a page from my book.  The last page actually.  Can you spot the cakes with the hands and bunny ears poking out of them?

I was going to put a recipe at the end of my book too but I ran out of time.  I started to do it last week but then realised that I wouldn't be able to knock it out in half an hour like I was planning without it looking rubbish so I have scrapped the idea for now. There's this great site called http://www.recipelook.co.uk/  where you can send in your illustrated recipes so I might do one fot that at some point instead.

Anyhow whilst I was doing that I got some ideas for the endpapers for my book.  I thought that as there's a heavy baking theme I could use the tiny pictures I did for my recipe that never happened and multiply them to look like this:

I quite like it but then I'm also torn between using black and white stripes for a more gothic feel. There's a stripe theme running through the book too, along with a frog and flamingo theme. Maybe I could do frogs and flamingos instead! On stripes.  Or stripes of frogs and flamingos.... the possibilities are endless!

Happy Tuesday! x