Inside the Mocha Cupcake...

Meet the inside of my soon-to-be Mocha Cupcake... Sorry to tantalise your tastebuds, but I'm afraid there's just not quite enough to go around. Some people shy away from baking their own tasty treats, which I've never quite understood. What's better than home-baked  goods??? Ok, so perhaps baking itself is an art form, sometimes the batch cooks perfectly, the next time, lopsided, sinking and not looking so picture-perfect. But hey, give it a go. Most of the time, even if it doesn't quite look how it should, it tastes just as good. If not, then you've messed up the ingredients and well, that's just plain old simple life skills...using the correct quantities and said ingredients. Baking is all about following the instructions, no winging it here. Once you get to know a recipe, that's when you can start mixing things up, throwing in some different flavours, you name it, it's your creation. Easy, no really...

Set up shop...

So I'm a keen baker and an ideas kind of person. Pieced together, I set up my first mini 'shop' at a local event over the weekend. For a long time I've wanted to do something like this as a creative baking outlet. The years of thinking about it mixed with friends and family's tastebuds encouraging my venture, I finally took the plunge. A chilly, grey morning welcomed my beginnings. All set up, I was raring to go! The hours passed by, the baked tasty treats were flying out at a steady pace, almost to an astounding sell out. I was actually doing it! I was selling my own baked goods. One idea finally out of my head and straight into action, the first of many new adventures I know fo'sure...