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hello!!

i decided to make a start with the cake shop menu, obviously a long way from an actual shop, but it means plenty of cake tasting in the mean time!!i made rocky road cupcakes. there's probably a recipe out there somewhere, but i put marshmallow, biscuit and maltesers in chocolate buns, topped with vanilla buttercream!delish!

i do, however, think they might be better with marshmallow frosting, so im gonna make some of these next!!

So, as promised, a picture of the 1st ever 'nana blanket'....it has since come in many different shades and sizes, some still in progress as we speak.

Also, i dont know if we mentioned this at the time (ha!i think i managed to drop it into every conversation i had for about a month!!)but recently the purlettes took part in the poetry societys 'knit a poem' for their 100th anniversary, and we knitted letters for a HUGE poem, that we went to see!!it was ridiculously big, so big in fact, they had to unsew some of it and it couldnt all be displayed!!but it was amazing!

it was displayed at victoria baths in longsight which was pretty cool to see as well. this is the website address, they have templates and stuff for the poems.

http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/knit/

i think next on my cake list, besides the hundreds of birthday cakes i am going to be making(its like 1st birthday season of the year in our family now til march, then its weddings then back to birthdays!), i fancy trying a spiced apple cake with caramel frosting..keep your fingers crossed, it could go horribly wrong!!!

kate xx