30 June 2009

Caramel Mud Cake


The recipe on this little gem called for white chocolate in the recipe, since I didn't have any on hand I used dark chocolate. The taste is fantastically caramel and very mud cake like in texture. This recipe is from the AWW Cupcakes, Cheesecakes and Cookie recipe book which is wonderfully & creatively photographed.

20 June 2009

Johnny's Birthday

This is a 2 layer carrot cake with vanilla cream cheese filling and a fondant finish. I've been trying to keep the kids away from it all morning so hopefully it will be in one piece by the time the party starts!!



















17 June 2009

How did I forget?

Well I totally forgot that this Saturday my little boy is turning 2! How did I miss that, I thought I had another week up my sleeve. So this has got me in a mild panic considering I haven't therefore thought about what cake I'm making him. So I questioned Owen last night and we decided that Johnnys two favourite things in the world are cars and cake. Easy!

I did a search on the internet and found some inspiration (and some laughs). Watch this space....it will certainly involve cars. I've chucked in some pictures below which I thought were quite cool.


































There are some crazy talented people out there I could spend hours and hours of my day trawling the internet looking at cakes.

09 June 2009

Spongebob Cake

I made this cake after 4 days lounging around the house like a useless blob watching my washing pile get larger and larger. No thanks to all the bugs going around and the kids picking up every single one of them!! I tell you this so you can forgive my wobbly lines.


Luckily for my wonderful hairdresser and her daughter I recovered in time...this one was for Abbie's 8th Birthday.

01 June 2009

Happy Birthday Liz!

Well its a fabulous day because it's a day off work and school for everyone, it's the first day of winter (officially) and it's a cloudless blue sky (but INCREDIBLY cold) and it is also the Queens birthday. Well not her actual birthday but we are just so pleased to have a 3 day weekend really so who cares.
Katie at the age of 4 believes everyone should have a party when its a birthday and today is no exception so we henceforth embarked on some cookie baking, roast pork eating and a whopping big yummy chocolate cake that mum made. Jolly good show!