An extremely belated post of the cake I made for a Bake Off competition at my church last year (for which I previously made this Ice Cream Accident Drip Cake) I made this delicious chocolate cake with fun fudgy 'mud' icing and fondant pigs. For this bake I made our basic chocolate cake recipe 1.5x … Continue reading Pig Mud Cake
Pink Ombre Drip Cake
Another day, another drip cake, this time a triple drip, ombre, piñata cake, because why make anything easy for yourself? Though actually, this cake was a lot of fun to make, though it was commissioned for a friend of a friend's birthday, so I only know through word of mouth that it also tasted good! … Continue reading Pink Ombre Drip Cake
Ice Cream Accident Drip Cake
https://lessonsfromaclassroom.wordpress.com We had a Bake Off social at my church last week, so of course I had to go all out and make a showstopper, as decorating is my favourite bit of baking! I considered lots of festive options around autumn or Halloween, but in the end decided on something entirely unseasonal, purely because I … Continue reading Ice Cream Accident Drip Cake
A Year of Birthdays
Apologies for the absence of posts, motherhood, teaching and university have respectively left little time for blog posts! I thought I'd share some of the baking I've done throughout the past year. It's been my third year of university which means one thing: lots of 21st birthdays! And this, of course, means lots of cake. … Continue reading A Year of Birthdays
Musical Piñata Cake
It's been a while since either of us posted anything... I have followed in the family tradition and (perhaps rather predictably to anyone that knows us) become a teacher. I have spent these past few months trying to get my head round a) how to teach, b) how to teach and c) how to teach. Oh … Continue reading Musical Piñata Cake