Bombay Duck: A review and £50 giveaway

I was recently sent two Love Bird Cups & Saucers, a Miss Darcy Two Tier Cake Stand in white with gold spots, Love Heart Cake Set and Love Letter Cake Moulds from the sweet peeps at Bombay Duck. How exciting!

With Valentine's day just around the corner, I decided to make gluten-free Victoria sandwich cakes to fill my new moulds with. I love how they turned out and the moulds were super easy to use. I melted and coloured white chocolate to make some chunky chocolate love letters, too.

I adore the mint colour of the love birds cups and saucers and the little bird hiding at the bottom of the tea cup is so cute! They come packaged in their own pretty pink box. The gorgeous gold spot cake stand also comes in a pretty pink box and can be dismantled for storage.

I am pleased to announce a giveaway of a £50 voucher for Bombay Duck.

To enter, please visit Bombay Duck, and then leave a comment below this post letting me know what you would spend your voucher on. The giveaway ends on Monday, February 27th 2012 at 10pm (GMT) and I will randomly select and announce a winner on Tuesday, February 28th.

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 the Torie Jayne blog
• following Torie Jayne on 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.

Good luck and have a sweet day!

Sweet Hearts

This week on Flickr Faves Sunday, with Valentine's day just around the corner, I bring you sweet love hearts!

Some beautiful shots from my Flickr favourites:

• The crafty decoration in still life | love me by Margherita Calati Photography
• The paper hearts in IMG_8382 by nadia ☆ bolshakova
• The brilliance of A forest of pink hearts by MayaLee
• The yummy looking marshmallow Sweet hearts... by Lady Haddon

Have a sweet day!

Cherry Cheesecake

Cherry Cheesecake (makes 6 jars)

Ingredients

• 8 gluten free digestive biscuits
• 100g unsalted (sweet) butter
• 400g cream cheese
• 600ml double (heavy) cream
• 6 tbsp icing (powdered) sugar
• Juice of 1/2 lemon
• 1 tbsp vanilla essence
• 300g cherries, pitted
• 2 tbsp caster or superfine sugar
• 1 tbsp water

What you will need

• Small glass jars

Cooking instructions

1. Place digestives in a bag and crush by rolling a rolling pin back and forth over the bag until you are left with crumbs
2. In a small saucepan, melt the butter, remove from heat and stir in digestive crumbs
3. Divide crumb mixture between the jars and press down lightly with the end of a wooden spoon or teaspoon
4. Whip double cream until stiff peaks form
5. In a separate bowl whisk cream cheese, icing sugar, lemon juice and vanilla extract until smooth
6. Fold whipped cream into cream cheese mix
7. Fill biscuit based jars with cream cheese mixture
8. Place in fridge
9. Blend cherries in a blender until you have a puree
10. Place cherries, water and sugar in a pan and heat on medium heat until cherries begin to soften and sugar has dissolved
11. Place in cup to cool
12. Spoon cherry mix on to individual cheesecakes
13. Leave in fridge until ready to serve

Here they are on my dessert tower


Have a sweet day!

My wooden ribbon spools

I have been pretty busy over the past few weeks busily trying to organize all my trims and craft bits and bobs. Here is a peak at the ribbons I have been wrapping around my new wooden spools.

Have a sweet day!

Wooden spools from Jane Means. Bird folklore ribbon from Panduro Hobby

Hotel Chocolat Valentines Giveaway Winner

My contest ended yesterday and I just picked a winner using random.org and I am delighted to announce the winner of the Hotel Chocolat giveaway is...

Lissy Lou, of the delightful blog Lissy Lou who loved Hotel Chocolat's thick chocolate hearts.

Please e-mail me your details.

Congratulations Lissy Lou, you will receive a box of Sealed with a Kiss chocolates

Thank you to all of you sweets that entered, to my loyal followers and new friends.

Have a sweet day!

My washi tape storage

For my ever expanding washi tape collection, I have placed them in stacked acrylic drawers from Muji, mainly because it makes it easy to find the colour and pattern I am looking for...

You can find loads of cute washi tape in my Amazon store!

Have a sweet day!

My craft room supplies...

I picked up this cute pencil case in the Cath Kidson sale for £1!

A new home for my craft knives...

The pastel brushes in the pretty tin are from Rymans

The pack of pastel pencils in a pretty tin were from a pound store!

Have a sweet day!