Alton Brown buttermilk biscuits!

Excellent recipe!  Love his shows, I grate ice cold butter instead of cutting in.

I cut the dough into rectangles instead of using the biscuit cutter…I brushed the tops with buttermilk.

Jean Pare scones; cream scone and angel biscuits are wonderful too

I use the recipe from Cooking for 2.

I add blueberries, or cheddar or orange zest or chives and garlic. The sugar on top is Raw or turbinado  

Crunchy top. Baking small recipes in my counter top convection oven.

mini cupcakes with swirl icing….problem with the cake top

I transport the decorated cakes in the baking tin

the hippopotamus tops? My oven did not reach 350 before I put the cake in!

2 tier cake (very small) for a one year old!

icing a small cake,  baked in a tiny spring form pan

Using a cupcake rose nail (wilton) to ice a cupcake

Clean the crumbs off your spatula to keep a smooth icing base

The bottom cake is still on a spring form base

I did the top swirl with a star dot nib and did the bottom with star dots.

Happy Birthday!

regular and mini cupcakes, plus Wilton rose nails

Use a circle nib or just the coupling to make a centre of icing

I purchased 123 nib by wilton from Dicken's Sweets, Chilliwack.  $3

the first circle of icing, I use a curved petal nib, not the straight rose one

I switched to a smaller cupcake, add to the centre by putting 3 petals on 

we will keep adding petals by alternating placement so no 'seams' appear

keep the nib clean, I just use my finger

I am turning my hand in one direction, the bag in the other

I used the rose nail for the larger cupcake

never decorate with buttercream icing when you don't have air conditioning.  This melted immediately!

decorations ordered on Etsy