Butterflies and butter cream

Butterfly Cakes

Today has been a lovely day. Birds woke me up at six in the morning rather than my Lumie light. I know now that spring is on its way officially. The Lumie light is amazing for the winter. You can get them from places like Amazon. It has to be one of my best Christmas presents the husband ever got me. Loss of sunlight affects me greatly. I can highly recommend it for insomnia too. If SAD is an issue then chocolate, cakes, baking and this light are very helpful. Now blue skies are here. Let's hope for longer than one day...
As I have said before I love to bake and these little cakes are simply great. They take only a few minutes to make. The recipe varies from book to book but this one involves hand beating rather than the electric mixer; so good like the old days. It was from a book my daughter had when she was little. We still like to use it.  I used to love baking as a little girl and it is a family tradition carried by us all. Although now I do find beating butter cream is very hard with butter, even at room temperature. I may have to learn to ask daughter to help with that now. She likes to bake but I tend to wash up... Like my Mum did when I was a girl. 
I am doing life writing on my course at the moment. It is hard to write in prose but I find blogging a useful tool which I can reflect back to. We are asked to do a diary for two weeks; so I will not be blogging for a while in case I want to use material for my assessment. I am finding this part of writing tricky. Looks like poetry will be my form of expression for this coming assessment.