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Ice Climbing Wedding Cake

Posted in Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, Wedding Cakes, tagged , , on June 5, 2014| 6 Comments »

whole cakeI love being asked to make cakes. But I love it even more when I get asked to make something that I haven’t made before, especially if it’s going to be a challenge. So I was pretty excited when Tom’s brother, Rem, asked if I would make his wedding cake. Of course I said yes, and came up with some suggestions. I gave them some traditional ideas but knowing that they both like rock climbing I said they could have something a bit alternative. I sent them a few photos of ideas and was pleased when they went with the ice climbing one – the white made it look more like a wedding cake than some of the other ones I found. Click here to keep reading.

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Cheeky Monkey Cupcakes

Posted in Cupcakes, tagged , , on June 4, 2014| Leave a Comment »

20140604-205218-75138848.jpg In my office, if you go on holiday there’s a tradition of bringing back holiday treats. However, I tend to bake something instead. Rather than using an ingredient from my recent trip to Borneo, I decided to make something related to what we’d seen. Click here to keep reading.

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Easter Chick Cupcakes

Posted in Cupcakes, Easter, Spring, tagged , , , , on March 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »

hatching chick cupcakesI have so many things to blog about that I struggled to decide which one to start with. After the lovely spring weather this weekend though I though it would be appropriate to blog about these little hatching chick cupcakes first. Are you ready to watch some chicks hatch into cupcakes?

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Toblerone Cookies

Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Nuts, tagged , on February 22, 2014| 3 Comments »

toblerone cookiesThe last week or so has been chock-a-block with baking. I’ve lost count of how many large cakes I’ve made. But before I add them to my blog I thought I’d share a recipe with you, while I can still remember what the ingredients are! Click here to keep reading…

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Mars Bar Cupcakes

Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, tagged , , on February 15, 2014| 1 Comment »

20140215-205717.jpg Last weekend I told Tom that I’d make something for him to take to hockey. However, just over an hour before he was due to leave I realised I hadn’t made anything. Ooops. So I decided to see if it was possible to bake and decorate some cupcakes in an hour. The answer was yes… just! Click here to keep reading.

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Cashew Nut Macarons with an Orange and Cardamom filling

Posted in Fruit/Veg, Macarons, Nuts, tagged , , , on February 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »

macaronsAfter my successful attempt using hazelnuts to make macarons rather than ground almonds the other week, I decided I would try another nut. Next on the list were cashew nuts – mainly because I had a couple of bags in the cupboard. As well as experimenting with the recipe I was also experimenting with my new camera – for my birthday I treated myself to an SLR camera. I was playing around with all the settings to work out how to use it, so I ended up with loads of photos which are all only very slightly different! So over the next weeks some of the photos might be slightly experimental… But hopefully better than the ones which I’ve been taking on my phone until now! Right, back to the macarons….

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Minion Birthday Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Iced Cakes, tagged , , on February 5, 2014| Leave a Comment »

20140205-201340.jpg Last weekend was an epic baking weekend – I managed to make four cakes and a batch of cupcakes. I’m still not entirely sure how I fitted it all. Especially since I had a cake disaster – my first one ever. I guess I was due one! I still don’t know what went wrong, but a sponge cake exploded – it was like a volcano. We tried a bit and it tasted like vanilla sponge should so I’m completely baffled. But anyway, back to the minion…

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Raspberry Blowing Minion

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Iced Cakes, tagged , , on January 30, 2014| 8 Comments »

minion cakeI’ve made 3 minion cakes now, and I’m aware my blog is starting to look a bit like it’s been taken over by minions, but it turns out that everyone loves a minion cake so I keep getting asked to make them! So here is the third one I made. Minion number four will be created this weekend so I thought I should put up some photos of this one to spread them out a bit… Are you addicted to minions too?!

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Hazelnut Macarons with a Nutella Cream Cheese Filling

Posted in Chocolate, Macarons, Nuts, tagged , , on January 27, 2014| 4 Comments »

hazelnut macarons I remember looking around my house before I bought it and thinking that the oven was probably rubbish – it looked as old as me. However, after four and half years of baking in it, I can honestly say I wouldn’t change it… even if somebody offered me a brand new top of the range oven. After all the hard work it’s done for me over the last four and half years, I decided it was time to give it a really good clean. And by that, I mean going as far as taking the glass out the door and leaving it to soak so I could get every last little mark off it. After about 2 and a half hours it looked almost as good as new – or as close as I could get – so I decided that I would test out the “new” oven and bake some macarons. Click here to keep reading.

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Black and White Cupcakes

Posted in Black, Cupcakes, White, tagged , on January 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »

20140126-175812.jpg A couple of weeks ago one of the girls I work, Kiri, with left to go on secondment for 6 months. I’m always looking for excuses to make cakes so I thought this was the perfect opportunity to make some “leaving” cupcakes.

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