Celebration Cake – Chocolate Cake with Fancy Butter Cream Icing in Yellow and Maroon Rosettes

  This cake received lots of appreciative “ooos and ahhs” from the people I gave it to (plus everyone who has seen it).  The cake itself is a basic and quick to make recipe out of a book I was given by my Grandmother, when I was a child. Although the recipe is standard, and […]

Christmas Cupcake Decorating

    Ain’t these cute! Box of Christmas-themed cupcakes decorated with buttercream icing :   Petit Fours offer Christmas cupcake decorating classes, so my work-mates and I went along to test our skills. We had so much fun, and the whole experience was delightful. We will certainly be signing up for more!   Here’s a […]

Mocha Cake

  Mocha flavour is a combination of chocolate and coffee. This Mocha Cake combines a coffee flavoured cake sandwiched together with two layers of Chocolate Butter Cream, finished with a Chocolate Ganache icing.   This cake is very quick to make: just place all ingredients in a bowl and beat together….and done! The following recipe […]

Walnut Whip Whoopie Pies by Claire Ptak

Walnut Whip Whoopie Pies by Claire Ptak (and Recipes for Fillings and Icings)     These have ground almonds and ground walnuts in the mixture and the whoopie pies halves are held together with marshmallow filling. Chocolate icing adorns the top, and walnut halves sit on top of the chocolate icing.   Walnut Whip Whoopie […]

Red Velvet Cupcakes with Buttercream Icing

  Red Velvet Cupcakes. These had been frozen. When thawed, we topped them with a rich Buttercream icing.   These are the Red Velvet Cupcakes that Mum and I made when I visited her last time. The recipe is from Tomato Cafe (see a previous post on this). The recipe made so many cupcakes that […]