It’s birthday cake time again. This year my niece’s cake of choice, is a Rainbow Birthday Cake, with a few modifications. My Rainbow Cake recipe does not have 7 layers of cake, but does have all the colour. I decided to use lots of bright colours into a 3 layer cake, to create a Tie Dye Rainbow …
The birthday cake of choice for my niece this year was to create a giant cupcake cake with a piped topping sitting in a giant cupcake case made from chocolate. Gulp! I had seen a rather magnificent cake on My Cupcake Addiction, an Australian site with some fabulous cakes and tutorials. I was inspired by their brightly coloured rainbow …
This recipe for Fruit Cake made with oil is one of my cakes I can continue to eat as part of my ‘healthier bakes’ for lower Cholesterol. I am choosing to bake less with butter and baking fat, and instead using more olive oil or rapeseed oil. This is a favourite bake Fruit Cake recipe made with oil. A …
This recipe for Sticky Ginger Cake was easy to follow and most successful. I have received a request for the last few years to bake a Ginger Cake for my uncle’s birthday, and this was his lucky year. I relied on family feedback as I am not a lover of ginger myself, and was reliable informed it …
Every year I make a cake for my niece Ava, this year she is celebrating her eighth birthday. I had originally planned to make a pinata cake, but over the last month or two she has discovered the #loombands craze! As a surprise I would make her a Loom Band cake, I had recently seen …
The one thing I missed earlier this year when I was ill, was going out and treating myself to cup of freshly brewed coffee. Now if I had a coffee pod machine at home it would of been less of a disappointment. Lucky for me my sister now has one as does a friend, and it …
Millefeuille Millefeuille another bake on my recipe list, this one made back in February for my mums birthday. I did not quite follow the recipe, I made a few tweaks with the filling. I was baking these to serve 13 members of the family, all of which I knew would want more than one. Hence …
I have a simple 2 pint Bundt tin cake recipe that works very well for the 2 pint Bundt tin I bought from Aldi sometime ago. I have used this basic recipe several times, including a cake I supplied for my nieces school Christmas Fair. Now I am not sure who bought the cake but …
I am sure that any keen gardener will have heard of David Austin Roses, synonymous with the breeding of English Roses. I am almost ashamed to admit that they are only around a 20 minute car journey from where I live, and I have never been. Located at Albrighton, Shropshire their Rose Garden contains the National Collection of …
Need cake but do not want to wait for the oven to heat up and then wait for your bake – the answer you need is Cake in a Mug recipe! In just over the time it takes to make yourself a cup of tea or a hot chocolate, you can have homemade cake. Technically my …