A cupcake Kit delivered right to your door all ready to bake – oh yes please, I’ll have some of that! Well, I did have a kit delivered and the outcome is totally scrumptious, all tried and tasted by me and two little boys. This is a fabulous idea and the kids will love it!
The Real Cupcake Company has created a range of dairy free gourmet cupcake kits, using real fruit with no artificial colourings or flavourings. They have been designed with the home baking experience in mind, making it extremely easy and fun to produce perfect little cupcakes.
It really couldn’t be easier to do. Simply add eggs to the ready made mixture, separate the mixture between the supplied colourful cases and bake. Once cooled, pipe the ready made real fruit icing onto the cupcakes, sprinkle on some chocolate bits (also included) and hey presto, delicious, fluffy and bouncy cupcakes for the whole family to enjoy!
These kits are quick, easy and simple to use, include a step-by-step guide for baking and icing and take only a few minutes to prepare. Each kit makes twelve cupcakes and includes: ready-to-use plain cake mixture, ready-to-pipe real fruit icing, decorations, twelve pretty paper cupcake cases, two extra-large piping bags, a selection of icing nozzles and a number of piping tips for creating your own delicious work of art!
With the festive season around the corner, you could have a lot of baking fun with the children. Making yummy fairy cakes is something that we all enjoy (the kids even more so!) and baking Christmas buns just adds to the whole excitement of it all.
The ranges of cupcakes available are orange, lemon or strawberry, all made with real fruit. I had the joy of sampling the orange flavour and orange it definitely was! With orange cases and a fabulously tasty orange icing it was truly the best cupcake I have ever eaten. The cake itself was so light and fluffy, and it’s just leaves you wanting to taste the rest of the flavours. The kits cost £9.99 which I think is a great price.
Or why not have something a little naughty for the grown-ups! The devilishly tempting range of alcoholic cupcakes including strawberry and champagne and blueberry and bourbon cupcakes sound devilishly good. The perfect mix of premium wines and spirits blended with real fruit, offers you a truly indulgent cupcake experience every time – perfect for a night in with the girlies! These are a little more expensive at £11.99, but I would say they are worth every penny!
Check out http://www.therealcupcakecompany.co.uk for further details and to order yourself or a loved one a succulent kit.
From Today, Monday 12th September to Sunday 18th September Britain will be celebrating National Cupcake Week and this year it has got even to easier to get involved with Green’s new cupcake kits! Available in three gorgeous flavours, strawberry, blueberry and lemon, these scrumptious vanilla-based cupcakes are the foolproof way to make a professional looking cupcake in minutes!
The mixes of Strawberry Cupcakes, Blueberry Cupcakes and Lemon Cupcakes come with their own flavoured frosting and seedless jam to offer you a scrumptious strawberry treat, a bursting berry delight or the ultimate citrus twist to tantalise taste buds!
Taking just 12 minutes to bake, these mixes are super quick and easy; simply add egg, butter and water to whip up into a gorgeous cupcake in no time. What’s more, each mix contains an icing sachet and piping nozzle to help create a real professional cupcake look that will rival an expert chef! Get artistic by piping a swirl with the flavoured buttercream frosting, be inventive and try topping with fresh fruit, colourful sprinkles or chocolate chips. With Green’s cupcake kits you can show off your creative skills by decorating each one individually to tailor to everyone’s tastes - have a go at creating some cakes for colleagues or have a baking bonanza with your mates this week!
All Green’s products are made with natural ingredients and no artificial colourings.
Green’s Strawberry, Blueberry and Lemon Cupcakes are sold in Asda and Tesco and Morrison’s, RRP £2.15. Hurry to get your kit - at the moment Morrison’s are running a promotion for the cupcakes kits at half price! Check out greenscakes.co.uk for recipe ideas and great deals!
The Unique Boutique Company is a magnificent place to indulge in. They offer unique and special culinary combinations, luxury hampers and quirky accessories which would more than fulfil the specific needs of a gift recipient. If you like gourmet treats, then you will be sure to love Unique Boutique. There are many products available, but one that I think is truly wonderful is the Green Fingers Hamper. This Hamper is perfect for gardening enthusiast or even just someone who fancies digging around in the flower beds in style, and it would make a really quirky and unusual Christmas gift.
The Unique Boutique Company say:-
“The perfect gift for the gardening enthusiast, Green Fingers perfectly combines the practical with the pretty! Inside the coffee-coloured gardeners trug you won’t have to dig too deep to find handy gardening essentials from an oak dibber to a thumb waterer as well as kitchen favourite herb seeds - basil, parsley, coriander and chives. And after a hard day in the garden, put the kettle on and relax with a delicious cup of tea grown in Cornwall, accompanied by rose-flavoured chocolate of course! That is, once you’ve washed your muddy hands with Gardeners Soap! And before you retire for the evening, don’t forget to add your nourishing gardeners balm to tired hands.”
Doesn’t it sound totally divine! To get your gardening hands on this amazing Hamper, then check out http://www.theuniqueboutiquecompany.com. The Green Fingers Hamper is priced at £70.
Guilberts Rose & Violet Creams are nothing but pure and utter indulgence! With this exquisitely packaged box of chocolate treats, you get an assortment of rose and violets chocolate creams. They are truly delectable, and very pleasant (and different!) to the palate, and I know they would make a wonderful gift for a chocolate lover!
Guilberts Rose & Violet Creams are infused with respective essential oils. Each of the fondants are expertly hand made and hand dipped. Quality is nothing but with these creams!
The Guilberts Rose and Violet Creams are priced at £9.99 and are available from http://www.delimann.co.uk. Delimann also has a fantastic range of tasty treats and gifts that really are worth looking at!
For children who possess the fantastic and educational Leapster Explorer, they (and parents) know how great it actually is! With a whole lot of fun, and at the same time being able to learn valuable skills, it is a game system that I always recommend to my friends! There are so many games to choose from, and here are some of my (well, my son’s) favourites….
Disney Pixar Toy Story 3 - Woody, Buzz and friends are more than well known by all kids – what child doesn’t love them? With this great game, you can play as Buzz or Woody as you use your phonics skills to move your way around this interactive board game and compete in 15 challenging missions! This game teaches:
- Letters
- Phonics skills
- Rhyming
- Word recognition
- Word building
- Spelling
- Physical science
The Penguins of Madagascar Operation Plushy Rescue is a huge favourite of my youngest boy. Here, Skipper created four training missions, each with a different plush toy to rescue. Rise to the challenge and sharpen your mathematics skills while Private hones his elite commando skills. From HQ choose a mission, play games and solve puzzles to overcome obstacles and outsmart Zookeeper Alice. Once you’ve restored order in the zoo, learn about endangered animals in Animal Fact Finder and unlock new animal fact cards for more learning fun. This game teaches:
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Animal facts
- Counting
- More than/less than
- Counting
- Shapes
- Sequencing
- Problem solving
Star Wars The Clone Wars really is a great game – my oldest boy loves it, and I too actually enjoy ‘helping’ him with it! Here, you can join Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi as they lead a mission to locate a hidden droid factory and bring an end to the Separatists’ plan. Battle your way through four action-packed levels with the help of R2-D2 and R4-P17. Use your mathematics skills to navigate your Jedi Starfighter through a heated battle on your way to the final confrontation with the Ultra Droideka! This game teaches:
- Geometry
- Decimals
- Fractions
- Percentages
- Place value
- More than/less than
With all games for The Leapster Explorer, there are extra bonuses! As you play, you can earn badges for your achievements which can then be converted into LeapWorld tokens where you can customise your game. Or use your tokens in LeapWorld where you can adopt a pet, play games and earn rewards.
For more great games and toys from Leapfrog, check out http://www.leapfrog.com. Here you can find stockist information too.
