March - Baking in Bloom

For our March meeting, we decided to welcome in the Spring by setting ourselves the challenge of baking something with a floral theme.


This time we welcomed two new members, Olly and Lou, who made some Vanilla Cupcakes decorated with fondant roses, and some Mojito Cupcakes (respectively). As for the regulars: Angel baked some Flower Cookies, Charlie baked  Lavender Shortbread, Joy baked Sunflower and Sesame Seed Flapjacks, Lorna baked Lemon and Poppy seed Cookies, Sally baked some Poppyseed Bagels, Sarah baked a Chocolate and Guinness Cake (Guinness is made from hops, and hops are flowers!), Stacey baked some Flowerpot Bread, and Tom baked some Bread in the shape of a flower!

This month both Tom and Stacey decided to take on photography responsibilities - yet even with two of us doing it we still didn't manage to get a photo of all the bakes together - so here's a photo of a plate full of goodies!

To give you an update on the valentines competition we entered - we came third!

See http://www.bakingmad.com/blog/2012/02/valentines-blogger-competition-winners/ for full details, including the AMAZING 1st place cupcake and cake pop bouquet!
Everyone agreed that it was great fun to do, and that we'd like to get together to do something similar again, so watch this space!