Sunday: Colours...Brown...

Final day of the week and I've kept up! Yayy and I love seeing everyone else's photos when I upload them onto the Lucky 7's Blog (it's here if you don't know http://lucky7sin2014.blogspot.co.uk/) To finish i've got one of my favourite treats to share with you. Cinnamon and Chocolate Macaroons... a lovely little chewy mouthful.

And I couldn't resist a tine one!

Saturday: Colours...Pink or Purple

So I'm going to go with pink... first we have one of my favourite desserts of all time, lemon posset with homemade raspberry coulis. I first has this in a local restaurant in St Ives and I had to recreate it myself. It's definitely a family favourite but the hight cream content means I try not to make it too much.

Then for seconds these my raspberry cream danish pastry. A simple danish pinwheel with homemade creme patissier (bacically a post egg custard mix) and fresh Cornish raspberries. I've only made this once and they went down brilliantly, I'm planning more thigs like this for my summer markets I just need to find some local fruit producers.

Friday: Colours... Black

Hmm another difficult one for me but I'm taking the prompt lightly so I'm going to go with today and yesterday making 'contrast.' I've found the only photo in my archive that supports this prompt..

These are some coffee and chocolate cupcakes I made a few years ago as a wedding gift for some family friends, they were much appreciated. As I looked at the photo I thought it felt like yeas ago I made these, only a couple.

Thursday: Colours... White

White right.... umm ohkay here's quite a few...

White royal icing in my beautiful mixer at christmas...

Not exactly white but here's one of my favourite cakes I've made recently. Its just a simple jam and buttercream sponge but by adding the buttercream all around the cake and some marzipan butterflys you get a beautiful birthday cake.

And finally not baking related but I couldn't resist, a tiny little elephant candle from my partner's parents for christmas. A little set of 10, so cute!

Wednesday: Colours... Green

Evening, hmm now green is another hard one for me as there aren't too many green cakes and even when there are green cakes they never look too appetising. So while being stuck for an idea I was chatting to mum about how my Gran's 67 year old weighing scales that we had refurbished a few years back were in full use today. 

Since they were refurbished they weren't as accurate as they used to be when they were yellowed and covered in years of flour dust so they ended up in a cupboard and put away. I discovered them again while I was cleaning out my kitchen as I was just starting up about 4 months ago and have been using them as a 'shabby-chic' cake display. So while at Paul Market the scales of a fellow stall holder broke and mine where the only things that resembled a pair of scales. Low and behold they're green.... long rambling story over x

Tuesday: Colours.... Blue

I found todays word a bit harder as there aren't too any blue cakes that I've made or know of so flicking through my folder of cake related photos with a niece on wither knee I found two.

The first being a cake that me and mum came up with a few years ago as a birthday cake, my big brother, sister and now her daughter all have their birthday in the same week in July so we needed a summer themed cake. I normally make a few layers then fill them with strawberries but this particular cake was to be taken to Mounts Bay School as a cake for the staff. Covered in blueberries and Cornish blackberries I thought it was fitting for todays photo.

The second photo my eldest niece insisted that I post today as it was her 5th birthday cake from last year, I mean what five year old doesn't want an R2D2 birthday cake?

Day two... drink..

Right so I'm already a day behind everyone else but I'm getting back into the swing of things after a hectic December and then crashing with a few days of doing nothing at all...

I started baking properly again today and tested out two new recipes that I've wanted to make for ages and I don't see anyone else making these at my markets... guessed yet?

Custard Creams and my big brothers favorite Chocolate Bourbons...
So here they are custard creams, bourbons and a cup of tea in my new mug courtesy of my mum xxx

Me again...

I want to say it's going to be a third time lucky with me and a blog however that's not quite true as this must be my fourth or dare I say fifth attempt at writing and posting on a blog. This time I don't feel as if I have half as many distractions and I feel optimistic that I'll stick with this one.

So where to begin.

I'm Jordan (or J depending on what you like) and being a baker has been on my to do list since I was about 10, in-between then and now I've wanted to be a doctor, a paramedic, a graphic designer and many other things but I've always come back to being a baker. So finally after about 5 years working in kitchens doing various jobs and two years of college studying nothing to do with baking my mum told me to 'just pull you're finger out and go and do it, you've been talking about it for years.' Here I am, 18, not too many commitments, as far west as you can get in England (Cornwall) and the pipe dream to one day own my own bakery/coffee house all to myself, (and a few nerves but I'm ignoring them...)

I'm not quit sure why I'm writing the blog, I don't necessarily think it's going to effect my business much but there's something nice about sitting down and taking a minuet to think about what I've done and ponder....

Things that I bake:

Well that list has most definitely grown in the past month let alone the last year but my basics are obviously cakes, sweet breads like Chelsea buns, Saffron buns and many others, gluten-free cakes and I have a not so secret obsession with cupcakes. I've been learning to tame this obsession slowly but the way I see it there's nothing better than a perfectly proportioned piece of cake that hasn't been cut and is all yours. But then that's just me, this past summer I worked in a coffee shop and the varying size of cake slices were astonishing.

So as this is a first post I'm not going to go too crazy with the cakes and photos -I didn't think I would write this much when I started, but here's a photo of my most recent batch of chelsea buns, definitely a family favorite in my house.

The uniformity of my spirals lost to towards the end there....Still they tasted good.