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Hello Everyone!

Finally the New website is LIVE. I am really please with the new colour scheme and the new layout. It is so difficult to imagine how the new website will look when you are deciding on a template and different colours. But hopefully this will interest more customers and give me more sales as well.

I love the new photos of the children on the catalog page. I found them on istockphoto really cheap and they are such a good quality compare if you are taking them yourself!

Anyway, please have a look and let me know what you think.

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Cupcakes

Lovely Cupcakes

Ingredients:

125 gram unsalted butter

1 cup caster sugar

3 eggs

1 1/2 cups plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

3/4 cup milk

Icing

50 gram unsalted butter

2 cups icing sugar

2 tbs milk

1001 or marshmallows to decorate

Preheat oven to 180°C. Place cupcake papers in two 12-hole cupcake trays. Beat butter until pale in colour and creamy. Add sugar slowly and mix well. Add the eggs one at a time. Add the vanilla essence and beat until combined.

Sift flour and baking powder and add half to butter mixture with half the milk, mix well. Repeat with remaining flour and milk.

Fill cupcake papers ¾ full (an ice cream scoop is perfect for this). Bake larger cupcakes for 20-25 minutes and smaller cupcakes for about 15 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out clean. Transfer to wire racks and allow to cool completely.

Icing
Cream butter until pale and smooth. Add the milk and half the sifted icing sugar. Beat until well combined. Add the remaining icing sugar and beat until mixture is light and fluffy. The mixture should be a spreadable paste; if it is too dry add some more milk, if too wet add more icing sugar.

You can also add some flavoring like chocolate, vanilla or lemon.

GOOD LUCK!

For more Ideas please have a look at our Party Food Tips.

Happy Birthday Song

Did you know this....

"Happy Birthday To You" is the most well known song in the English speaking world and perhaps in the whole world to! It's origins began with a nursery teacher from Kentucky called Mildred J Hill. In 1893 Mildred composed a melody and her sister Patty Smith who was the school principal added some simple lyrics to form the song "Good morning to all". It was to be a simple greeting song for teachers to use in welcoming students to the class every morning. The catchy little tune soon became very popular and was later published in a songbook 'Song stories for Kindergarten'. No one is sure who changed the words to what we sing today as 'Happy Birthday' but it first appeared in a songbook in 1924 and since then it has been sung at millions of Birthday Parties!

Happy Birthday...