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  • Chocolate Rudolph Christmas Cake

    I saw this Chocolate Rudolph Christmas Cake in the Morissons Christmas magazine last year but didn’t get chance to try it out; the recipe is by Stork. I modified the decoration slightly. Photos to follow!! Have a bit of a back log due to the holiday season. For the Cake:     225g Butter     225g caster sugar     4 medium eggs     40g cocoa powder     225g self-raising flour For…

  • Christmas cupcakes

    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🙂 For Christmas this year I’ve decided to bake Christmas cupcakes and a chocolate chip banana cake as we had some left over bananas to use up. For the Christmas cupcakes I used my “go to cupcake recipe” but added a chocolate sauce to the mixture to make gooey chocolate filled cupcakes. I decorated with red / pink icing and Christmas themed sprinkles…

  • Chocolate Frosted Funfetti Cake with Jam Filling

    Tomorrow is Ryan’s birthday (and Back to the Future day). Unfortunately, he’s working until 22.00pm so we decided to celebrate today. There was presents, singing and of course, cake… I baked a vanilla sponge cake with chocolate frosting. He loved it. 🙂 You will need For the cake: 4 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 20 tablespoons unsalted butter 2 cups granulated sugar 3 eggs 2…

  • Apple Crumble Cake

    A colleague at work brought in a bag full of cooking apples from his tree, free to anyone who wanted some. I took 6 and decided to have a try at my first apple crumble cake. I adapted an apple crumble cake recipe I found on Pinterest for self raising flour (I’m out of baking powder)… Here’s the result. 🙂 You will need 7″ (18cm) round cake tin 75g unsalted…

  • Magic Roundabout Flake Cake

    Mum’s birthday is next week but we’re celebrating this weekend with breakfast out, a bit of shopping and an evening meal. My job is to bring the cake! Mum loves The Magic Roundabout, especially the characters Brian and Zebedee, so I decided to make cake themed around that. I decided on a flake cake because 1. She likes flakes and 2. I’ve done similar cakes to this (with chocolate fingers)…

  • Minion Cake

    My dad’s birthday was this weekend, he really enjoys the Despicable Me films so I decided to bake him a minion cake. My first ever character cake! I used a 9″ x 13″ sheet pan and used a vanilla sponge receipe for the cake itself. The one I use is designed for a 7″ round tin but it worked well for this – no batter spillage and baked well! Yay!…

  • Olaf in Summer cake

    I made this Olaf in Summer cake for my sister’s birthday this year, it was a chocolate orange sponge cake with chocolate fingers and blue frosting. You will need 100g unsalted butter, softened 50g cocoa powder 90ml boiling water 3 eggs 175g self-raising flour 300g golden caster sugar Orange flavouring For the icing and filling Blue frosting White fondant Black fondant Orange fondant Edible pens Cocktail stick (to assemble Olaf)…

  • Betty Boop cake

    It was my mum’s birthday last week, she loves Betty Boop. I’d seen bunch of Betty Boop cakes on Pinterest and decided to try baking and decorating a Betty Boop cake for her birthday. It was a lemon cake with vanilla frosting and a fondant Betty Boop. This is my first figure out of fondant. For the cake: 175g unsalted butter, softened 175g golden caster sugar 2 tsp lemon flavouring…

  • Strawberry drizzle cake

    Mother’s Day was last month (in the UK, I know it’s not until May in some countries) and I surprised mine with a Strawberry drizzle cake, we also took her out for the day. Most fondant decorations were hand made (can you tell? 😉 ) and my first attempt at something like this. I used a butterfly fondant cutter and small cookie cutters for the letters (the daisies were store…

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