Chocolate Rainbow Cake

I had to use up some leftover ingredients from the cover so I made a layer of chocolate cake. I sliced it into two semicircles and then sandwiched them together with strawberry jam. I then covered the cake with chocolate ganache and added smarties in a rainbow pattern.

Giant Jaffa Orange Cake

Giant jaffa cake recipe found in bbc good food magazine. Big success! Very messy to make!

After Exams Victory Cake

Inspired by: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/10073362/Chocolate-flowers-cake-decoration.html .I used white buttons, milk buttons, vice versas, galaxy counters, galaxy caramel bites, milkybar giant buttons, minstrels, maltesers and white/dark chocolate chips. Very chocolatey! Very nice!

Mini Lemon Drizzle Cakes

Mini lemon drizzle cakes made using mini loaf tins! Home made lemon curd in the middle and lemon icing on top. I used just lemon juice and icing sugar to make the icing.

2-5-13

White Chocolate and Raspberry Blondies

White chocolate and raspberry blondies! VERY yummy! Made using a free 150g bar of Green & Black's white cooking chocolate which I received from the 2013 cake and bake show. 

25-4-13

21st Birthday Cake for Jon

My second attempt! A little more tricky this time, I did a "21" cake for my gorgeous boyfriend's 21st birthday. The number 2 was victoria sponge with buttercream and raspberry jam in the middle, and the number one was Felicity's famous fruit cake. The number 2 was cut out from a large rectangular cake which was a lot of fun! The spare cake went into making the champagne bottle and the cork (and possibly the small present with the key on it.) The fruit cake started life as a square cake, and the number 1 was actually done in two halves. Fortunately with the fruit cake, if you made a mistake, you could squish the cake back into place very easily, for example we didn't like the angle at the top of the one, so we squished some fruit cake back into it to make it more curved. It worked surprisingly well! The leftover fruit cake then went into making the smartie-covered "present". The cake was decorated with rolled out royal icing and various Jon-themed decorations. I fashioned a saxophone out of marzipan, and in the beer mug I put golden syrup and some icing on top to make it look like beer with head, I made a squash racquet out of spare royal icing, and the music staves were done on extra rolled out royal icing just in case they were to go wrong! The "happy 21st" were made out of white, milk and dark chocolate. Overall I was very proud of this cake and I look forward to my next challenge!

21-3-13

My First Attempt at Proper Cake Decoration

This is my first attempt at proper cake decoration. I bought the flowers, ribbon and other decorations from Leeds City Market. This was for my boyfriends parents' silver anniversary. The cake was a victoria sponge with buttercream and raspberry jam in the middle. One day I hope to master the sugarpaste flowers for myself instead of purchasing them! Not bad for a first attempt.

9-2-13