Having fun baking and decorating cakes- come along for the ride.
How many times have you bought some baking ingredients and seen a recipe on the side of the packaging and thought “Oooooo that looks good. I must make that some time!” and then used up the flour/sugar/butter and thrown the packaging away? Loads of times if you’re anything like me. Well, last week I picked …
So, have you seen the trend for naked cakes yet? I really love the look of them but they do have a lot of downsides. Firstly there’s no fun with sugarpaste when you make them! Secondly there’s no sugarpaste to hide any mistakes (including wonky stacking or gaps in fillings). And thirdly……. No, I can’t …
Last weekend I made a birthday cake for little Dahlia. I can’t quite believe that she is two already! It seems like just yesterday that I made a rainbow cake for her first birthday. It was the first time that I had a cake disaster! I’ve heard many people talk about when they dropped cakes …
Sometimes I get a cake in my head and I just can’t stop thinking about it. Flapjacks have been one of those cakes recently. Want to know why? It’s a silly story really! A few months ago Tim accidentally picked up some Golden syrup flavoured Weetabix by mistake. I think they were a trial thing. …
A Chiffon cake is a seriously light and fluffy cake which originates from America. Traditionally it’s made in a ring tin, but I decided to make it in a 9” round cake tin and it turned out beautifully. It doesn’t have a huge amount of flavour so I added some Rose essence to mine which …
I made a really yummy chocolate and cherry cake last week and finally had a go at covering it with chocolate ganache. Up until now whenever I have made ganache it’s always been mixed in with buttercream for a cake filling or just as a really delicious layer of chocolatiness before a fresh cream filling …
