Silver Leaf Mirror Giveaway by Juliette's Interiors

I'm so pleased to announce a giveaway of a 97cm silver Camilla's Hat® mirror, worth £449.87, courtesy of Juliette's Interiors.

Framed in a whirlwind of silver leaf, a 34 cm diameter bevelled glass mirror, has been dubbed 'Camilla's Hat®' due to its striking resemblance to the flatteringly feathered hat designed by Phillip Treacy and worn by Camilla Parker-Bowles on the day she married HRH The Prince of Wales.

Juliette's Interiors was started in 2005 by Juliette with the aim of producing well priced, design led and above all, seductive, show stopping luxury furniture and mirrors which you will be proud of showing off. Each gorgeous item can be tailor finished to you and your home by customizing the size, finish or fabric giving you a unique piece to treasure. They also sell a host of gorgeous home accessories from stunning ruffled bed throws to sleek chic faux crocodile bottle holders.



To enter the Juliette's Interior giveaway, leave a comment below letting me know 'Where you would hang the Camilla's Hat® mirror' if you won. The giveaway ends on Tuesday, June 14th at 10pm (BST) and I will randomly select and announce a winner on Wednesday, June 15th.

To increase your chances of winning this fabulous prize, you can gain one additional entry for doing each of the following:

• tweeting about this giveaway
• blogging about it
• following/subscribing to the Torie Jayne blog/twitter

For the first two, please leave a comment below with the link to your tweet or blog post.

This giveaway is open to UK readers only but don't worry as there's still time to enter last week's US-only giveaway of a Squint Cushion!

Good luck and have a sweet day!

Gluten-free banoffee cupcakes

Gluten-free banoffee cupcakes (makes 24 cupcake size cakes)

Ingredients

• (4.5 ounces) unsalted butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon (1/6 ounces) natural vanilla extract
• 250g (2/3 cup) caster sugar (superfine sugar)
• 2 eggs
• 250g (1 cup) self-raising flour
• 4 fresh bananas, mashed
• 130g extra small fudge chunks

Cooking instructions

1. Preheat oven to 160-180 deg C (325-350 deg F)
2. Line muffin tray with paper cases or baking tray with silicone cases
3. Beat butter, eggs, vanilla extract and sugar with an electric mixer until the mixture turns a pale colour
4. Stir in flour, mashed banana and fudge chunks
5. Divide mixture among cases
6. Bake for 25-30 minutes
7. Place cakes on a wire rack to cool

To Decorate (24 cupcake size cakes)

What you will need

• 56 large fondant flowers
• 56 small fondant flowers
• Green vanilla buttercream
• Grass icing tube no.233
• Icing bag or bottle

Instructions

1. Spoon green buttercream into a piping bag or bottle fitted with a nozzle attached
2. On top of the cakes, starting at outside edge and working in circles, pipe buttercream by squeezing a small amount on to cake at 90 degree angle, pulling up and away when icing strand is long enough (about 3 cm) stop squeezing and pull tip away at various angles (see pics for how-to)
3. Push fondant flowers lightly into iced grass

Have a sweet day!

Felt cakes

This week on "Wonderful World of Etsy" I bring you a selection of the cutest felt cakes and sweet treats from Milkfly. My mouth waters looking at the banana cream pie with its thinly slices of banana and peaks of cream and the nutty coated chocolates look so real! Pure genius! I would love to get some of these for Molly's new playhouse!

• Banana cream pie
• Mix match batch-o-cookies
• Sprinkles donut
• Sweetheart chocolates

Have a sweet day!

Hand-made honeycomb chocolate bunny head

Last Easter I made chocolate bunny heads filled with home-made honeycomb and they went down such a treat with my friends! This year I made them again but this time I made their faces with white chocolate and coloured their eyes with blue chocolate and their noses with pink chocolate.

Hand-made honeycomb chocolate bunny head
What you will need

• Mini non-stick cake pan, 6 cavity - bunnies
• 100g White chocolate drops
• 400g Milk chocolate drops
• Half a batch of home-made honeycomb
• Pink powder food colouring
• Blue powder food colouring
• Aluminium foil

Instructions

1. Temper (melt) 2 tbsp white chocolate
2. Place 1 tbsp of the melted white chocolate in small bowl and stir in pink food coloring until colour is even
3. Place a small drop of pink chocolate into nose of bunny moulds
4. Place 1 tbsp of the white chocolate in small bowl and stir in blue food coloring until colour is even
5. Place a small drop of blue chocolate into eyes of bunny moulds
6. Lightly tap moulds so chocolate lays flat and air bubbles are removed, and leave to set
7. Temper (melt) rest of white chocolate
8. Pour into bunny moulds so white chocolate is about 1 cm deep and leave to set
9. Fill bunny moulds with chunks of honeycomb
10. Temper (melt) milk chocolate
11. Pour milk chocolate over honeycomb to fill the moulds and leave to set
12. Turn out chocolate bunnies and wrap in foil.

The pretty pink rabbit aluminum foil is from Daiso Japan a Japanese 100 yen ($1, £1) store. I bought mine from Jusco, the Hong Kong equivalent of a £1 store, back in November of last year on a work trip.




Available in my store.

Have a sweet day!

Home-made honeycomb

Honeycomb (makes about 10 bags)

Ingredients

• 600g (3 cups) caster sugar (superfine sugar)
• 2 tbsp liquid glucose
• 100ml water
• 100ml liquid honey
• 1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 400g Hotel Chocolat milk chocolate drops

Cooking instructions

1. Grease and line baking tray with non-stick baking paper
2. Place the sugar, honey, water and liquid glucose in a heavy based jug
3. Heat on full power and using a candy thermometer, heat until the temperature reaches 160 deg C
4. Remove from heat quickly
5. Add the bicarbonate of soda and whisk immediately
6. Pour onto a greased baking sheet and leave to cool down
7. Break into small chunks
8. Temper milk chocolate
9. Dip the chunks of honeycomb into the chocolate
10. Place on a sheet of baking paper and leave to set

Floral printed paper bags from Zonart and Kamika, tops of bag folded over and punched with a ribbon punch and gingham ribbon threaded through holes and tied in a cute bow

I have added the candy thermometer I use to my new Amazon shop - a place where you can find lots of items I have and use here on Torie Jayne to make candy, cakes, sweet treats and more.

Have a sweet day!

Inspirational Pins - Playhouse

Today in my series of posts "Inspirational Pins", I bring you the prettiest play kitchens and houses. I started my playhouse Pinterest board a few weeks ago when I found out that my cute little niece, Molly, was getting a playhouse from her sweet parents. How exciting!

They plan to paint and decorate the little play house and place her hand painted jungle bench I gave her for her birthday last year inside along with her pastel wooden kitchen. I can't wait to help by making pretty pastel curtains for the windows, decorative bunting for the walls and pom pom trimmed cushions for the floor. So stay tuned for updates on Molly's little cottage!

For more playhouse and play kitchen Inspiration check out my Playhouse Pinterest board!

• A pretty, little playhouse!!
• The Playhouse Company peppermint cream playhouse
• Via Elena Valdés
• Play kitchens
• Play kitchens
• A pretty, little playhouse!!

Have a sweet day!

Kids Play Kitchen

This week on Flickr Faves Sunday, I bring you pretty kids kitchen pics with these gorgeous pics. My cute little niece Molly is a lucky little girl and has just been bought a playhouse for the garden by her Mommy and Daddy. I am so excited! They plan to make it super cute and pretty and I have offered to make curtains, throw cushions and bunting in sweet pastels. She will be having her adorable pink kitchen from the playroom put in there, so I am hoping to make her some fabric cakes and more, for her Birthday later this year!

Some beautiful shots from my Flickr favourites (clockwise from top left):

• The gorgeous artwork and tea set in Annie's new room by Craft & Creativity
• The ever-so-cute polka dot saucepan in kitchen by sara.seeton
• The pretty artwork and bunting on the walls in Play house by little em 2010
• The adorable wooden cakes in Annie's new room - cakes by Craft & Creativity

Have a sweet day!