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
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
I've been wanting to try to make baklava for a while - I love it. However, I know that my family are not overly keen, they find it to sickly and sweet. Anyway, the other day i had some filo pastry left over from dinner and decided some experimentation was in order. I am the … Continue reading Peanut, Chocolate and Caramel Baklava
I came back from university a few weeks ago and as soon as I got home I was inundated with messages from friends about how they really wanted to come round and make cake after spending all term drooling over the pictures I have been posting on Facebook (oh the joys of social networking, I … Continue reading Chocolate and…
Yesterday I had my first solo mahoosive cake making session. (Obviously I do bake regularly but not quite to this extent…) It was our summer ball on Tuesday and after getting into bed at 7am following a well-deserved hog roast and making it to the survivor’s photo, I decided there was not much I could … Continue reading Strawberry and Chocolate Cake
