Chocolate Mousse (Sort of with recipe)

                                                          Chocolate Mousse

Quick, simple and decadent! Throw a big carton of whipping/double cream in a bowl (Or small if you don't have enough) melt about 300g of dark chocolate and 200g milk chocolate and mix together. Leave to cool whilst whipping the cream. Mix it all together and add a little flavoring I recommend a tablespoon coffee but there's no harm in trying a little orange zest, mint, liquor etc...

My Nan's Birthday sponge cake

                                                 My Nan's Birthday sponge cake

I have to say, as wrong as favouritism is-being the grandchild who makes your birthday cake really does get you high in the rankings. Simple vanilla sponge cake with traditional jam and buttercream, topped with my first ever use of luxury sugar paste in pale blue, fondant hearts, chocolate writer icing and piped pink buttercream.


I made this in about three hours on a Tuesday afterschool, so it's not my neatest masterpiece. However, you cannot deny this looks like good sponge:

Christmas Cake

                                                            Christmas Cake

You may say it's a bit early to start posting christmas cakes but in my opinion, it's December-that counts as Christmas. So here's the Christmas cake I made with four friends last year for a charity WOHAA bakesale.

The problem with designing Christmas cakes is there are so many ways to go; snowflakes, santa, penguins, presents, trees, polar bears, reindeer, candy canes, gingerbread men, angels... Too much choice and not enough cake! So we went for throwing as many possible christmas themed items together and I must say it worked-the year four girl who won it was very pleased.

I currently have five christmas cakes being fed generously with whisky in the cupboard and am onto several christmas cake designs, so keep an eye out! :)

Perfect Heartbreak Cake

                                                          Perfect Heartbreak Cake

Not particularly spectacular but what more could you want to mend a broken heart than to destroy a perfect one made of chocolate cake? Rich chocolate sponge lathered with nutella buttercream. Simple. Delicious. Satisfying.

Froggy Cake

                                                                Froggy Cake

 

                         Okay, so not my highest skill cake, but I did make it when I was 11 and I just thought I'd post it as no one can deny that it's a simple and effective novelty idea (Similar to the smiley face cake) but would surely be improved with three more years baking practice and a stronger green. (Hence why the second froggy is sad. :( )

Smiley Face Cakes

                                                             Smiley Face Cakes

What better to cheer up an end-of-November Thursday/parents evening than the classic smiley face? Well it gets better-in cake form! Unfortunately I couldn't locate the photos of some smiley face cupcakes I once made (And used to bribe my piano teacher's forgiveness for not practicing week after week) but I do believe the three examples I could find show an awful lot of progress-honestly I don't know why my family ate the first one to make me feel better at the time because now I'm just ashamed.

My Dad's Birthday smiley face cake February 2009

My twin aunts' Birthday smiley face cake May 2011

 

         My Bribery cookie debt smiley face cake April/May 2012.









I have to say for anyone looking for a simple but fun birthday cake idea-this is the one! It's novelty and easy and any beginner can do it-apart from me at age 12 apparently...

Mocha Angel Food Cake

                                                                Mocha Angel Food Cake

 I made this mocha angel food cake as my first ever angel food cake! It's not quite chocolate, it's not quite coffee-but it's light and fluffy and whipped cream with about 50g icing sugar and couple of tablespoons coffee makes a lovely side!

This was my Mum's Birthday cake this year, she wouldn't let me broadcast her age...