Stop what you’re doing and look at this!

• The Guardian takes a look at which of the recently released baking books are worth buying
• If you have the first Hummingbird Bakery cookbook, its worth taking a look at this sheet of corrections that they released as there were some mistakes in the recipes originally printed
• The Bake with Compassion campaign which is raising money this week to support the Big Move campaign, is an excellent reminder of the importance of using free range eggs in your baking – I use Happy Eggs – you can’t always trust all eggs labelled as ‘Free range’ and (hopefully) needless to say, you should never buy eggs from caged or battery hens
• Check out the worlds biggest pumpkin carving! I won’t lie to you, its pretty damn scary
• Oooh, Baking with Basil has made some yummy looking red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. I’ve been thinking about making these lately – they look great!
• The top toys for Christmas this year are an odd looking bunch
• Adulthood vs eating all the candy. So true.
• October is breast cancer awareness month AND Halloween, providing us with many hilarious themed cake wrecks
• Interesting Halloween costumes from 100 years ago! I wonder if this was dressing slutty back then? We’ve come a long way baby.
• Mum, look at me! Look what I’m doing Mum!! Mum!! MUM! Look at me!! MUM!

Related articles

• More Halloween baking ideas and treats (kerrycooks.wordpress.com)
• Super duper amazing DOUBLE RAINBOW cupcakes (kerrycooks.wordpress.com)
• Halloween Cupcakes and Baking Designs (notecook.com)