Hooray the snow has gone!

Well it's the first of February and you may think that I have been lazy - not posting for ages - but we have had Christmas, snow, more snow and then a rather tragic computer malfunction!!! Happily I can see the first signs of spring and school has been open every day for two weeks in a row, so life is returning to normal.
In the cake world I have been experimenting with different flavours - sticky chocolate orange and cranberry & orange cupcakes to name just two. I have also been busy making hearts and roses to adorn the vanilla cupcakes in their beautiful new cases - all in an attempt to persuade the gentlemen folk of Inkpen and Woolton Hill that they would be an ideal gift for Valentines day. The problem is that I don't believe men think that far ahead - it's usually a last minute dash to the supermarket (if you're lucky) which results in a box of Ferrero Rocher and some carnations! At the Woolton Hill village market last Saturday, I even watched a lady expressly telling her rather bemused husband what he should be buying, but short of actually ordering them herself what more could she do??
I'm off now for a walk in the glorious sunshine and to retrieve Euan from the mud in the garden before we have to do the school run. When I can find a way of hooking my camera up to this borrowed laptop I will post some pics of my cakes. In the meantime any requests for recipe experiments please let me know - I've just found a recipe for petit pois cupcakes - random!!