As usual, I’m no good at keeping my blog updated. Here’s a roundup of some cakes I’ve done recently.
Chocoale Fault Line Cake
The above cake was requested as “just a chocolate cake”. I took it as an excuse to try the fault line cake about 2 years after it was trendy!
Next up, a small red velvet wedding cake for some friends who wanted a small ceremony. They wanted the drip and semi-naked cake, and didn’t want a topper:
Red Velvet Wedding Cake
Finally, as seems to be a standard cake I do each October, another friend requested a “Brain Cake” to take to work…
Brain Cake
I always love how brain cakes look so effective when they are such minimal effort – literally rolling out some fondant, then covering in jam!
We lost our good friend to cancer a few years back. It was when the pandemic was still rife and we couldn’t have many at his funeral/ wake.
Today would have been his 44th birthday, and we were able to have a big celebration charity fundraising event last night. It was Las Vegas themed as that was his favourite place where he visited at least once a year… Sometimes even more.
I didn’t organise the event, but I did get asked of I would make the birthday cake so that’s exactly what I did …
vanilla birthday cake with buttercream.cupcakes to go with the cake – fondant playing cards and chocolate poker chip toppers.
The event was amazing – raising nearly £5,500 for Macmillan. We drank cocktails, gambled, bid on things at the auction, and celebrated a truly amazing man.
I can’t believe that I’ve not updated this blog since back in February. Oops! It seems that once again, time has flown and I’m now doing a dump of lots of cakes I’ve made this year.
No full stories, just pictures of the cakes and their descriptions
Teddy Bear Birthday cake (chocolate)America Cake (red velvet)Inside of the cake – flag based layers!A mass of cupcakes for workmates when I changed reporting teamsA small wedding cake for a friend’s weddingAlan Turing cake for Pride MonthInside of the Pride cake – rainbow vanilla layersUnicorn Birthday CakeInside of the Unicorn cakeA bright cake (lemon cake + lemon curd)Made some mini macaronsRussian Nozzle – flower cupcakes (chocolate cake, vanilla icing)
My Niece, Amber, Wanted a ballerina cake for her sixth birthday. I got it in my head that pink ruffles would be the way to do this… how much did I regret trying these when the icing kept dropping off the cake?
I suppose the plus side is that when I am not a professional and I am not getting paid, I don’t have to worry too much when things go wrong.
Another birthday treat was some chocolate cupcakes made for my sister in law’s birthday:
Nothing overly exciting for these – chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream. I chucked some Cadbury Miniature Heroes on top and some blue sprinkles to bring some colour.
My workmate finished working with us a few weeks back. Normally in the office I’d take a cake in to say goodbye, but we’ve all been working from home thanks to the pandemic. Thankfully, he lives quite local so I dropped a cake to him in person to say goodbye and good luck.
He had told me he liked cheesecake. I don’t like making the crust though so I decided he could have the baked cheesecake layers sandwiched between red velvet cake layers:
a shot of the sliced cake to show the layers inside
I had stacked the layers with a cream cheese frosting, which was also used to ice the outside of the cake.
beginning to stack the cheesecake and cake layers. The cheesecake looked a lot browner on the outsidesstacked cake before it was coated with cream cheese frosting
To finish the cake, I shaved some white chocolate shards to coat the outside, and topped it off with red velvet crumbs:
coated in cream cheese frosting, white chocolate shards, and a red velvet crumb.
I got started on Christmas stuff earlier this year, and ended up with all my “home made treats” completed at the end of last week. As such I took a load around to friends’ houses to share the sugary goodness.
Some of the treats as photo’d by a friend!
The offerings were:
Chocolate Coated Oreos
These were Oreos, coating in various chocolate, and decorated to look Christmassy. Sadly I made the error of putting them in the fridge, and by the time they got delivered the milk and dark chocolate ones had bloomed.
Gingerbread Fudge
Made with white chocolate, condensed milk, ginger spice, and gingerbread cookies all broken up. Topped with some Christmas sprinkles! I used this recipe from Janes Patisserie.
Eggnog Truffles
The eggnog truffles are AMAZING if I am allowed to say so. Made with white chocolate, cream cheese, rum flavouring and nutmeg. They are very easy to make, but taste delicious. Recipe from Six Sisters Stuff.
Reindeer Brownies
Made chocolate fudge brownies, cut into squares, then topped with some edible eyes, a red m&m, and pretzels for antlers.
Peanut butter dog treats (for those with dogs!)
The dogs don’t get forgotten at Christmas – these were Peanut Butter dog biscuits made with all natural Peanut Butter. I stamped the bigger ones with dog names, but they didn’t quite show up once they had baked, hence trying to use icing pens to show the names
