Sharabelle bakes

Cream Cheese style Dairy free Buttercream Normally I don't do butter cream or frosting, what ever you want to call it.  I have trouble getting over the fact that it's just fat and sugar.  I also find it way too sweet, and over dosing on sugar is not really great for my IBS.  I get windy pops - which lead's to swollen tummy - and worst case scenario stomach spasms The rest of my family and friends love it though.  If I want my baking to be as good as or better than the full fat dairy am going to have to master it.  I also need to make my baking look a lot more pretty..... It's out there Iv said it, I don't do pretty fancy decorated baking.  Which is really strange as I'm into arts and crafts!!! The guys at work have offered to be taste testers, so I used a Wacky cake recipe  to make some cupcakes.  You can't really make butter cream, with out baking something for it to go on......  I reduced the fat by using soya ...

My friend L is on holiday this week, so she came round for lunch.  Nothing better than food and a good blether with friends.  As usual I had to bake for the occasion, her Halloween party this week was a great excuse.  Did go a little OTT again though.  By 9am the baking was done and by 10am my homemade tomato and basil sauce was gently cooking away.  We saintly ate pasta with tomato sauce for lunch, so we could splurge on muffin tin mini apple pies and custard for pudding.  I personalised her cookies, by breaking up and folding through some caramac.  Your not going to find any of these to buy in the shops. I also made some Chocolate cupcakes.  I cheated a little I bought some pre-made butter cream. Made sense since, the cakes are going to be frozen till Wednesday.  I was pretty confident making real dairy cookies and Cakes but there was no way I could taste test butter cream.  Morrison's have started d...