Cakepops – halloween eyeballs on forks… sounds gruesome doesn’t?! Well it is a bit, but delicious too and soooooo easy to make, here’s how! We will be handing these out to our trick or treaters on Halloween.
You need equal measures of cake (slightly old cake is fine) and buttercream, mush it together in a bowl with your hands until it binds and then make lots of small eyeballs…
then melt a little white chocolate in a bowl and dip each plastic fork into the chocolate and then into an eyeball. Put them in the fridge to set.
While they are setting, colour a little sugarpaste green and a little black and roll out very thinly. Using small round cutters (I used the bigger end of an icing nozzle) cut out enough irises for the cake pops and then using a smaller circle (I used the small end of my biggest nozzle) cut out the pupils. Stick them together using water or sugar glue and put to one side.
Now melt your chocolate coating (I used white chocolate but you can use candy melts too and these actually come in white) in a jug, as you want it to be deep to dip into. Then take a cake pop, holding it by the fork and dip in, once it’s covered hover above until the drips stop
Then put onto greaseproof paper to set ( mine are in polystyrene but i appreciate you won’t have an old dummy cake lying around!). Once it starts to look a bit more set (after you’ve dipped about 3 more) stick on the iris and and it’s starting to look like an eyeball!
Once they are set, avoid the fridge as it may make the chocolate bloom, you can add more decoration. I coloured my left over chocolate green and added slime then used food colouring to paint on a blood shot effect, but go crazy and make your own gruesome designs 
Happy Halloween!!!
Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday Just Darling Cakes, Happy Birthday to me!
Your eyes are not deceiving you! I am giving one lucky couple who book their wedding cake on the day of the open day (50% deposit to book) the chance to win it for half price. It’s really easy, come to the open day, taste the scrumptious cakes on offer, talk to me about your design, pay your depsosit… and one lucky couple will not have to pay anymore! I will be announcing the winner on Monday 29th October.
I’m so pleased to be able to share with you these photos from Laura and James’s wedding at 
Congratulations to a really lovely couple!
Are you marrying between October 2012 and February 2013? Would you like a free Wedding Anniversary cake for your 1st Wedding Anniversary? Then look no further. Just Darling Cakes is offering just that for all Autumn/Winter Wedding Cakes booked before August 30th 2012.
Last year I made a pretty cake for Jenna and Ryan who married at the 
Congratulations Jenna and Ryan, can you believe it’s almost a year already?
It’s our 11th Wedding Anniversary on Saturday and we’ve been reminiscing and rummaging through saved bits and bobs and I came across “The Complete Wedding Organiser and Record” by Carole Chapman. I cannot remember if I bought this or if my mum did, but I do remember using it for odd things. However, it seemed quite dated even then but what it does have is lots of traditions and superstitions. So I thought I’d share with you the traditions of wedding cake.
It dates back at least to the Romans who ate cake made of wheat flour, salt and water while the service was in progress (I think you’ll find we use much tastier ingredients!)