A fun cake to make! Vanilla cake with sugarpaste decorations.

Firstly, thanks to those of you who baked the recipe last month, hope you enjoyed it. I've seen quite a few tweets about people enjoying it, but there weren't many posts on the linky! The winner of the cookie cutter prize is Kim from 'Cakes from Kim' - congratulations! Please can you email me your address and I'll get the cutters sent out to you? As I'm sure you'll agree, it is an incredibly busy time of year so I'm going to do the club a bit differently this month. As I am very late posting the recipe I'm going to add the linky onto the bottom of this post, so if you have time to bake the recipe, you'll need to pop back here and add your link.

I know, we're already 11 days into November and I've only just got round to sorting out the recipe for this month! I do apologise! Those of you who follow me on twitter will have noticed I have been working on a project, which has been keeping me very busy, and the deadline was this month. Anyway, more on that later. Firstly, well done to Nicola from Nic's Notebook who was picked at random last month to receive the prize - hope you enjoy the book! On the subject of prizes, I'd just like to put in a cheeky plea and say if you know any businesses who might like to donate a small prize for the Bake It!

Hope you all enjoyed last month's recipe - I certainly had some very positive feedback. Congratulations to Gemma from Growing My Family Tree who was the winner of the cupcake book. Look forward to seeing any cupcake ideas you try out :) Now the weather is turning cold and damp I thought I'd try out a recipe that would bring a little warmth and spice.