Come fly with me, lets fly, lets fly away…

I must apologize for my lack of blogging recently, it has been a hectic few months - sitting exams, graduating and moving to the beautiful Bristol! 

This is the cake that I was commissioned to make for one of my lecturers leaving party.

The map was pretty fiddly to do but I loved the vibrant colours (it was MUCH brighter in real life!).

The cake was a traditional vanilla sponge with vanilla buttercream and jam filling, and I am told that it was yummy!

I shall keep this post short and sweet because I have lots of things to do today but I have a couple more cakes to blog about very soon :)

Love you guys ♥

There is nothing better than a friend. Unless that friend has chocolates of course.

Here is a selection of some of the chocolates I made during the Ultimate Chocolate Course at Slattery’s.

Flavours include;

• Banana and Peanut Butter
• Praline
• Sea salt caramel
• Lavender
• Passion fruit sea salt
• Lemon
• Beer
• Elderflower

We also made some curry and some gorgonzola and mango, which I thought were so gross and best not to inflict on unsuspecting friends!

♥

Somewhere over the rainbow,

Skies are blue,

And the dreams that you dared to dream

Really do come true

This cake was a last minute order for a boy named Tom’s 18th Birthday.

It is a very simple, almost boring looking cake on the outside, with a crazy secret on the indide. The rainbow cake returns. It really is the Jekyll and Hyde of cakes!

You may notice my writing is not entirely perfect. This is because writing is my weakest point anyway, and during the decoration of this cake we had five powercuts! How can I work in these conditions?! 

I have been informed, that the cake was a huge success, and even the lady’s cake loathing husband enjoyed a slice or two! 

♥

They say you are what you eat, so does that mean I’m bright and sweet?

Wowzers. Gobsmacked. 

I made the WhiskKid’s rainbow cake for my dear friend Jacqui. 

It was epic. Six entire layers of delicious vanilla cake, layered with lashings of cream cheese frosting and topped off with sugar paste.

But not just any old sugarpaste. I painted the cake to resemble sailor style tattoo’s because the darling Jacqui has quite a penchant for tattoo’s. 

The cake was a total success, when I told Jacqui that there was a surprise inside she was sure that it was going to explode and I saw a grin emerge from her face as she sliced the cake to reveal the joyful secret that it held inside.

This cake is Jacqui to an absolute t. Decorated on the outside and (good) crazy within. Perfection.

I’ll post a blog of how I made this absolute delight, and the recipe - I adapted a red velvet cake recipe (because I had buttermilk to use up) just to make life hard for myself! It tasted so amazingly delicious though.

I’m crashing from my sugar high right now so I bid you farewell and sweet dreams my lovelies ♥

Hey! Who put carrot in my cake?!

Carrot cake cupcakes with lemon ‘butter’ cream frosting.

Vegan and delicious of course :)

MMMMmmmmmm…

xoxox

Vegan Mocha Cupcakes, for a pretty little pick-me-up.

For the cake I used this recipe;

http://bakeanddestroy.net/2007/11/vegan-mocha-cupcakes/

I adapted the buttercream recipe from one of Eric Lanlard’s recipes in his book ‘Cox Cookies and Cakes. I used;

• 200g vegan margarine
• 300g icing sugar
• 2 tbsp strong coffee (dissolved)
• 100g melted dark chocolate

These were so good! Due to the fact that there is no animal fat in these cupcakes, the coffee and chocolate flavours are really prominent. The cupcake is super moist and delicious! Yum Yum in my tum.

I have made the non-vegan version of these and these were definitely the best!

The vegan mocha cupcakes were voted the best by The Carnations at a recent band practice! Check them out; http://www.facebook.com/carnationsmusic

Love you dolls xoxox