BakesbyJo: Evergreen Cupcakes

A Christmas special.

BakesbyJo: Fruitcake Cupcakes

NailsbyJo: Holiday Cheer

The holiday season calls special nails. 

So, here are three easy steps to sporting your own fabulous holiday nails.

1. Put on a coat of red paint. I used Revlon Deep Red. A single even coat did the job for me. 

2. Get out your stamping plates. I used cheeky plate numbers 6 and 17 which had the holiday designs. Use the white nail paint for stamping. 

3. Tadaa... Finish with a transparent coat. 

BakesbyJo: Blue Ombre Cupcakes

To make Blue Ombre Cupcakes all you need to do is separate your batter into three equal quantities before you mix the colour in it.

In this case I increased the number of drops to get a deeper colour. Start off with 1 drop in first mixing bowl, to two in the next and three in the last one. You can choose to add more colour to deepen the shade. 

Then put this mixture in three separate piping bags.

To fill your cupcake liners, start with the darkest tone and give it a light squeeze filling 1/4 of the liner. Then use the middle tone, squeeze till it fills 1/2 of the cupcake liner, followed with the lightest tone till it fills 3/4 of the cup. 

Now bake as per your recipe. 

Soon you'll have a cupcake that looks like this on the outside.

The cupcake will like this on the inside.

You can choose to decorate the cupcake with butter-cream like I did.

BakesbyJo: Vanilla Cupcakes with Buttercream Frosting

I must add they were absolutely yum. 

NailsbyJo: Gold dots on purple

My little nails in purple with highlights of gold. The purple is by Models Own. Unfortunately you do not find this brand in India yet, but if any of you visit the UK you can find it in stores around. 

3D snowflake

A couple of days back my neighbour from Goa shared an interesting post. It inspired me so much that I knew I had to try it. And here's the result. 

Pretty cool, huh? I also added my own touch to it. 

While the tutorial did say to make use of a stapler, I must say glue just worked fine with me.

Check this video too, of the other ones I made. 

If you want to know how it's done, follow this link http://www.handimania.com/diy/3d-paper-snowflake.html

BakesbyJo: Doughnut Cupcakes

BakesbyJo: Bath

Bath is a goan delicacy made out of coconut and semolina.
This batch was baked with the recipe my Mum brought over, it's a family secret so don't ask me a recipe to it. :)

BakesbyJo: Blueberry and Black Currant Muffins

In addition to my doing my nails, quilling, writing, painting, and cooking. Well I bake too.

This week I made Blueberry and Black Currant Muffins. Followed a recipe. You can Google for one online, or drop me a message for the recipe.

I must say am pretty pleased at the way they turned out.