Our local agricultural show is on this weekend and I entered these vanilla cupcakes and violet macarons into the cooking section.

 It was all a little last minute (having woken up on Friday morning thinking I’d already missed close of entry) but with one last check on the entry form I discovered I had until 12 noon to get them made and delivered to the showground before judging would take place. I wasn’t sure if I would get them there in time but as always there’s nothing quite like a baking challenge to fire me up!

The kitchen looked somewhat like a war zone afterwards, but don’t you think they look amazing?