Everyone I know who has had a cupcake or cake from the Hummingbird Bakery is totally in love with the bakery. Not only are their goods pretty to look at they are pretty nice to eat too. They now have a cookbook out and its as pretty to look at as the Bakery’s cupcakes.

Caro has had the book for a couple of weeks and she’s tried out a couple of the cookie recipes already but somehow we came up with the idea of a baking day. I wanted in on the action! I was definitely up for it as it would be a nice way to catch up and spend time but also a way to indulge in some sinfully delicious baked goods!

Although the recipes in the book are all extremely tempting we did have to limit ourselves. The book is filled with all sorts of recipes so our first and biggest dilemma was narrowing it down to just two or three! Ha ha. We settled on a menu of Coconut and Pineapple cupcakes, Black Bottom cupcakes (basically, chocolate cake bottom, cream cheese filling and cream cheese frosting) and Pecan pie (this last one was to make Nate happy.)

Before baking though was an all important breakfast. Caro cooked us up some lovely poached eggs with oven baked mushroom and goat’s cheese. Delish.

Soon enough though it was time for work! Although actually it wasn’t work so much as making a nice big mess in the kitchen so it was fun-work, not work-work.

Here are some pics of how the day went.

coconut and pineapple cupcakes

black bottom cupcakes

pecan pie

If there is one thing I learned about our baking experience today is that the hummingbird bakery sure like sugar in their recipes! After one cupcake the sugar high was almost too much to even think about trying another. Almost. Two was pretty much my absolute limit. Next time around Caro and I are going to make sure we cut down the sugar content.

The only thing missing from the day … a dish-washer. Heh heh.

Thanks for Caro and Nate for putting up with the baking day in their house.