I love a carrot cake. Its too hot for a cream cheese topping, so I made butter icing and topped the cake with walnuts and cinnamon. It travelled in the car to its delivery point without melting which was a relief!!
As part of my work celebration of the annual Green Impact Awards, I made a few classic English cakes 🎂 The classic Butterfly cakes, which reminds me of my childhood and a mini Victoria sponge. As my colleague commented, a mini Victoria sponge reminds her of a summer scone with lashings of jam and cream. Staff celebrated the environmental achievements of the past year at this event.
To celebrate the quarter finals with England I made a school tray bake style cake topped with the England flag! And then I made sone sprinkle topped cakes just cos I fancied it!
Happy first birthday Fitness Forever! An inspirational fitness company offering Chair-based Exercise Classes and Pilates Classes. Anna and Karen, who run Fitness forever held a tea party with their clients on Saturday to celebrate their first birthday 🎂
I enjoyed a few bits of lovely baking this bank holiday weekend. We enjoyed Rock cakes - a true classic and easy recipe (see my blog recipe section on how to make them). 1 rock cake is never enough and 2 rock cakes per person hit the spot perfectly with a cup of tea. I then made mini Victoria sponges. So pretty! We took these to a family picnic in our woods in Kent. Yummy 😍. Bring on another bank holiday for more baking treats!
What better to celebrate Easter with a vanilla cheesecake. I crunched up some mini eggs and mixed them in the cheesecake itself as well as adding mini eggs on top. For the biscuit base, I used chocolate digestive biscuits. On reflection, the classic digestive biscuit base would have been better but I wanted to go with the chocolate theme!
I love Spring and with Easter around the corner, I decided to get my cutting shapes out and make some Easter style shortbread biscuits. To celebrate Fairtrade coffee morning at my work, I used Fairtrade chocolate and sugar in my recipe. I made Chick and Rabbit shaped biscuits!
Happy big 80th to my mum. As a huge fan of Freddie Mercury, we used AI to generate a photo of my mum and Freddie and I then used it as a cake topper 🎂! I made a classic vanilla sponge filled with butter icing and strawberry jam. We had a small family gathering to 🥳
A triple layered Victorian sponge cake for a special friend, Caroline 50th birthday. Despite a transportation issue where the 50 icing stuck to the lid, I managed to salvage the situation! Butter icing is good for fixing any mistakes or in this case redoing the top of a cake 🎂