Hey look what I found at Woolies Lip and Heart sprinkles

Look what I found just before Christmas in the baking aisle of Woolies.

Heart and lip sprinkles.

'Cause when you live in Australia and love Bakerella and other US sites it can sometimes be heartbreaking (is that word to strong to use for baking?) when you can't find some of the sweets and treats they use for decorating.

It's a four pack of 'Fantasy Fairy' sprinkles with hearts, lips, pink sugar and pink and white sprinkles.

A couple of other places I use is USA foods based in Melbourne Australia who have Candy Corn, Corn Syrup, Peanut Butter baking chips, Criso, Marshmallow Fluff..........and a stack of other items.

Or if your close to Brisbane Chocolate Boulavard in the Myer Center have a smaller range of US (and UK) sweets and some baking goods.

plus those confectionery stalls in the middle of all the Westfields and other major shopping centers have some of the US candy as well.

Hope you all had lovely holidays, Ill be back baking soon.

Stuff I've been up to

I'm feeling very guilty at the moment and have been being a bad bad blogger.

Although I have been neglecting the blog I have been busy baking and this is a quick post to share some of the things I have been doing.

A couple of weeks back I attended a friends Girls Night in held in honour of her co-hosts late mother Eileen and I really wanted to share a couple of photo's. These ladies raised just under $2,000 to donate to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. It was superbly organised with raffles, a dessert table, auctions and more, many local business were so generous in donating goods and services.  I made some macarons (of course) some decorated sugar cookies and triple choc cookies. I had a great time, met some lovely people and even won the lucky door prize (wahoo), thanks so much to the organisers for such a great night.

As well as the girls night in, this past weekend I made up a couple of batches of cupcakes and decorated cookies for my Aunty who participated in the relay for life in her bid to raise awareness and funding for Lynch Syndrome, she and her supporters did a great job as well.

and you all know it was Halloween, well was baking up a Halloween storm, orange macarons for the neighbors, Halloween cake pops and more. In fact I entered the Little Betsy Baker Halloween pop competition and was lucky enough to win the facebook fan vote with my Betsy Witchy Poo pops pictured above.

Then I made up a batch of rainbow lollipop cookies for Faye at Giggles and Tantrums for a photoshoot, yup their the ones at the top of this post, those cookies always brighten up my day.


And created some new lollipop cake pops pictured below.......tutorial on how to make these will hopefully be up within a week.

oh and some cupcakes and fondant toppers for Ah Tissue fabulous new product shoot which will get their own posting in a couple of days.

Phew, and a bit more in between all of this ....busy busy busy.