Boomerang Biscuits

Just a quick post.  I dont think I could feel any rougherer if I tried. My kidney pain has spread up into my ribs and I am not liking it...not at all! 

Anyway,  I think some of my readers don't believe that I actually do bake in bed.  I do...
As much as there are days where my body just wants to hibernate life goes on and I have to keep going.

One of Mr Lardshow' s friends has got a wonderful job down under and so to celebrate and say good luck we made them some boomerang biscuits. 

So back to the bed baking. I made it downstairs and collected all of the ingredients, propped my sore ribs up and used the heat of the electric blanket to help soften the butter.   Genius idea I thought...
So by the time Mr Lardshow got home I was struggling to ice the biscuits but they eventually got done.

Im quite chuffed with how they turned out . Thank you again to Weena Fish for the boomerang idea x ♡ x

Autumnal birthday biscuits

These delicious little morsels were made for my wonderful friend Jill. She's one of the strongest, awe inspiring women I've been lucky to meet.

Creating these biscuits is quite hard work. My hands ache afterwards. I think they're worth it though. The effects are brilliant. I love the little spots on the leaves.

You can almost hear the rustle of the leaves.

Happy 60th Jill! X

Allo. Allo. Allo.

Listen very carefully, I shall say zis only once...

For those of you that are follicaly challenged, or needing to have a handy disguise to confuse the Gestapo in an old BBC sitcom or if you just fancy a change to what you see when you look in the mirror, I have the perfect solution.
Moustache biscuits!

Aren't they fabulous? The cutter for these is actually supposed to be used to do fried eggs but I thought I'd use them for biscuits instead.

You make your biscuits as normal and then you make a thick paste using icing sugar, water and your choice of moustache colouring. You use this paste to make a line outline around the biscuit. Make sure to join the line up well. If there's a hole you'll end up with a leak and no one wants a leaky moustache!

I used one of my small icing bottles for the outline and a new squeezy bottle that Mr Lardshow's mummy got for me for the next part.

Once the outline is completely dry you make a slightly thinner icing. It needs to be the consistency of custard. Now I don't like custard so I like to say it needs to be the consistency of cheese sauce. Use this icing to flood the biscuit, I use a cocktail stick to gently push the icing into the corners.

Leave to dry, package up and send them off to work with Mr Lardshow for the official cake club tasters to try. Enjoy boys!

Wedding Wishes

Hello All,

Every weekend seems to have been so busy recently. I love the fact that I'm getting out of the house so much more but boy it's tiring! It's been worth it though. We've had some beautiful weekends in the company of beautiful people. It's strange, while some parts of my life have effectively 'died' some parts are coming alive again.

So this weekend was spent at the wedding of our beautiful friends Simon & Rowena. They had a lovely, small, intimate wedding that was just perfect. Mr Lardshow and I spent the day taking notes and thinking about what we want for our wedding.

I think we enjoyed the wedding so much because we paced really well. I let Mr Lardshow sort everything in the morning so I wasn't already exhausted by the time I got in the car. After the ceremony we took some time out and went for a relaxing picnic by the river. By the time the evening do started we felt relaxed and revived. Perfect!

A few years ago I made the decision to try to make presents for people if I could rather than buying something people don't want. So for Simon & Rowena's wedding I decided to make them some Mr & Mrs biscuits and a lovely, tiny wedding date cushion. Hope they liked them.

My lovely mummy helped me to get the cushion finished & Mr Lardshow was an outstanding biscuit tester! What can I say, its just a gift he has! Have a look at the pics of them and let me know what you think... Hoping everyone has a beautiful day! xBx

Thank You Biscuits

Just a quick post to show you all the biscuits I made today with the brilliant letter cutters that we got from Portmeirion.

 I think they may be one of my favourite baking gadgets I've ever bought. Such a simple, effective idea. You use the 'open' end of the cutter to cut the basic shape then push the letter imprint into the dough. 

When the biscuits are baked you're left with these fabulous letter shapes that are just begging to be filled with icing. I love the fact that the letters are all different.

I use little squeezy bottles that we got from hobbycraft to do the very precise icing. I start off with the lightest shade and then darken the icing each time i start a new set of letters.

The finished biscuits. I did three different shades of blue this time. I think they look really effective.

So these biscuits are for the ladies at Pain Management. It's the last day of the course tomorrow and I just wanted to say thank you to them for all the amazing things they've taught me. Most importantly they've made me realise that life can go on, you can have a wonderful life with pain. Your life won't be easy but you are entitled to a beautiful life and you can get there with a bit of pacing...They are the best medicine I've ever been prescribed. xBx