Monday 21 November 2011

Baking for Children in Need

Firstly, my apologies for a lack of posts recently, baking has been put on hold once more for education but I have a multitude of bakes to blog about, so keep your eyes peeled!

As most of you will be aware, it was Children in Need on Friday and my Dad asked me to make something for a sale they were doing in his office. Although Lakeland were selling Pudsey cookie cutters, I felt that they were an unnecessary cost and probably limiting, as they printed the famous bandage onto the biscuit. I did have a teddy bear cutter that I bought from Fenwicks for 60p, which provided a perfect template for a teddy bear biscuit.


I used the same vanilla cookie recipe for these as I did for my Dracula biscuits and was reminded how much I absolutely hate it. It's sticky, hard to work with and, no matter how long it sits in the fridge before and after you cut your shapes, the biscuits ALWAYS spread into one large tray shaped biscuit. As per usual, I had a mad rush to re cut and carefully transfer the biscuits to a wire rack before they firmed up. Nightmare!

I iced an outline around the bear first so that it would remain in that shape, and then filled it in. Sometimes I can be naturally creative but by this point it was late and I was fed up, so a few Pudsey's looked a bit rubbish.


All in all, I feel that they look good, and apparently they were delicious! I also made some cupcakes by adapting a recipe from The Caked Crusader (which seems to be so versatile it's unreal) to be chocolate chip vanilla cupcakes and decorated them using some buttercream that I had left over from a birthday cake I made earlier that week- I'll update soon!


They look great but I'm still practicing my piping skills, any tips would much much appreciated! My dad says all of the cakes went down really well and they made lots of money for Children in Need so my good deed has been done!


Finally, I got a special mention from The Great British Baking Club which made me very happy!

Happy Baking!!

4 comments:

The Caked Crusader said...

Glad the cupcakes work for you!
Your pudsey biscuits are soooo cute - I'd have felt mega guilty about eating him. I still would have though!

Jo said...

Awww look at the row of little Pudseys! They're so cute. The only tips I can think of for piping icing is to have a steady hand and fairly stiff icing. Have you tried piping from the centre of the sponge instead of the outside? I sometime find it makes a prettier swirl.

By the way I've tagged you in the Food Bloggers Unplugged game. If you fancy taking part here's my link http://whatdoyoumakeofmycake.blogspot.com/2011/11/food-bloggers-unplugged.html :)

Sumaiyyah said...
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Sumaiyyah said...

Hello, Rachael! I love the biscuits, and the bandages are an awesome touch!

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