Happy 1st Birthday, Sweetie Pie Bakes Stuff!

Bang in the midst of a very busy time where I'm not baking as much, and in the midst of a spelt flour drought, I hereby celebrate my first anniversary!

I started doing "Sweetie Pie Bakes Stuff" on Monday March 18th 2013, and it has since then garnered nearly 3000 views and many a like and share; my Facebook page has just over 60 likes, and my little how-to video on chocolate ice-cream has a handful of views. Woohoo!

From hereon in I'll be including at the end of each blog what I was doing this time last year, just to show how much things have changed and improved around here. Hopefully this blog will continue to grow and progress, and that once I get the YouTube channel in full flow it'll get even bigger and better.

Here's a list in order of the year's most popular posts, from most popular to not as popular:

1. Oatie Biscuits
2. No Churn, No Cook Strawberry Cheesecake Ice-Cream
3. Orange Chocolate Fudge (Naturally Gluten-Free)
4. Peanut Butter Fudge (Naturally Gluten-Free)
5. Gluten, Egg and Dairy-free Adventures (plus 2 Biscuit Recipes)
6. Orange Bourbon Creams
7. Wheat-free Chocolardiac Arrest Cake
8. Jammie Dodgers (Linzer Biscuits)
9. Homemade Ice-Cream Cones
10. Coconut Custard Creams

I'm looking forward to another year of culinary creations and sharing my knowledge with fellow wheat-free bakers across the world!

Thank you so much for your continuing support,

Sweetie-Pie

xxx

Crazy at Work! (BREAK UNTIL AFTER EASTER)

Sorry for the lack of updates for the last fortnight, I've been stupidly busy with work and gigging and catching up with mates. I had no idea that making a Lenten promise to not say no and take on new experiences would make my life so incredibly busy!

I am deciding therefore to take a little break from blogging until my life is a little more settled and regular. Hopefully, also, the white spelt flour will have returned to the shelves by then!

Happy baking and happy easter!
Sweetie Pie
xxx

The Return of Spelt Flour and Cupcakes

So I found some white spelt flour in my local health food shop, albeit for a higher price than what I'm used to. But that extra 80c was worth it because I was beginning to lose my born mind.

Recently, I've rediscovered my like of fairy cakes (cupcakes to my American/Canadian readers) since I was reminiscing over my daily lunchtime strawberry fairy cake that I used to have when I was in college. I made some lovely vanilla cakes with green vanilla icing for my Irish speaking café event yesterday, and took some photos for y'alls to see!

In my opinion it's best to make oddly coloured icing a neutral flavour, like vanilla, so the brain doesn't get seriously confused. Obviously, if your green icing is mint flavoured on top of a chocolate cake, that makes sense and it a nice compliment; but when the icing is the main feature it's best to keep it simple.

I'm getting super excited about St Patrick's Day! When I was a little girl, my mother used to bake all kinds of green things to eat on St Patrick's Day, from bread to cakes to putting food colouring in lemonade, and we used to make it was a special day for my brother, who is called Patrick.

I'm so happy to be back baking!