Lemon Meringue Pie

                                                                   Lemon Meringue Pie

Not my highest skill level but top of the year 10 class with a lemon meringue pie when our homework was to make a dish incorporating the lemon curd we'd made that day! Also not my most imaginative I must admit, but close to the tastiest!

Giant Chocolate Birthday Cupcake with Rainbow Buttercream

                                        Giant Chocolate Birthday Cupcake With Rainbow Buttercream

 I made this for my friend's 15th Birthday and yes, as per usual it was an order of chocolate cake. It was however unusual for me to try a giant cupcake-a recent trend sweeping the nation which I was more than excited to use for the first time! Unfortunately I did order the tin on the internet and being somewhat of a technophobe ordered this identical tin 4 times, so we have 3 of those locked away in our cupboard for no apparent purpose. Oh well-I got to try a giant cupcake and my friend got to eat one!

Mini Chocolate Cake For my Friend's 16th Birthday

                                                                 Mini Chocolate cake with oreo decorations

I made a birthday brownie styled chocolate cake for the birthday girl who wasn't too much of a brownie person! Complete with oreo cookies, nutella buttercream, and chocolate shavings as an edge!

So the chocolate cake didn't quite squeeze into the box, the glitter gel pens smudged a little, and the cake ended up being eaten by a herd of teenage girls with plastics spoons on a Thursday lunchtime, but all in all Chloe had an amazing 16th Birthday and told me it was the best cake she'd ever eaten-that day I was even named the queen of cakes and I can't argue with that!

HAPPY 16TH BIRTHDAY CHLOE!!!

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2nd Christmas Cake of the year!!!

                                                                2nd Christmas Cake of the Year!!!

Okay so that's 2 christmas cakes down and 3 to go! (One of which is for us...) I made this one for my (slightly crazy) Nan and my Dad is delivering it to her as we speak! I've been told the biggest problem with my cakes is that I add too many cute characters which guilt people out of consumption, instead of taking this as constructive criticism I heard only the compliment and continued to create them.

If my kitchen didn't suffer-it wouldn't be a good cake.

MERRY CHRISTMAS :D

First Christmas Cake is done and dusted!

                                                         First Christmas Cake of The Year

I'm not too sure if I've previously mentioned but I have had 5 fruit cakes enriching in my kitchen cupboard since September now and I can't tell you how good it felt to finally decorate the first of them! I made this for my Aunt who asked specifically for an early cake (Also full of alcohol) as she wanted to consume it all before Christmas. Well she almost consumed the reindeer before taking it home from work, my Mum stopped her out of want to show off.

Simply a christmas fruit cake stacked with brandy and whisky, a layer of marzipan followed by chocolate fondant 'bricks' and white fondant 'snow'. A mini chocolate cake chimney (Also covered with the chocolate fondant), Coloured fondant santa legs and parcels, chocolate fondant sack and a modelling chocolate rudolphe-who I sense is no longer with us. RIP.
   I finished with some writer icing colours and a quick icing sugar dusting. Voila et bonne noel!

Lilac Food dye!

                                                         Purple Buttercream Cupcakes

Whenever I'm asked to bake vanilla cupcakes I always face the deliberation of palette for the buttercream. I was in Sainsbury's and never before had I seen lilac food colouring so what choice did I have but to experiment?

Not very wintery but just in case you were wondering-lilac food colouring is on the market people!!!

HAPPY SNOW DAY! Hot chocolate...

                                             HOT CHOCOLATE....

So what better a way to celebrate the fact that instead of being at school learning stuff or whatever I am sitting at home writing a cake post about hot chocolate than by sitting at home writing a cake post about hot chocolate?!

My favourite is Cadbury's dairy milk but I would definitely recommend Aero bubbles as a close second!


I've also heard of some pretty interesting alternative hot chocolates and so if you, like me, are ever stuck at home on a treacherous cold day longing for education and the comfort of school uniform-try them out!

Basic recipe:
Just heat 2 cups full fat milk on the hob until just below the boil...


Why not try a homemade nutella hot chocolate?

whisk in a 1/3 cup Nutella, take this off the hob and voila! Obviously it's imperative to top with whipped cream and marshmallows!


White hot chocolate?

Same recipe, just with 50ml whipping cream, no nutella, and about 60g white chocolate melted in! You could even add a drizzle of raspberry sauce!

Peanut Butter hot chocolate?

Just add a packet mix hot chocolate and 1-2 tablespoons peanut butter! Or even try some peanut butter cups! (Even just as a garnish or on the side!)

Mint hot chocolate?

Regular packet mix+ Mint chocolates (E.g After eights!)

Honeycomb hot chocolate?

Regular packet mix+a few snaps homemade or shop bought honeycomb or even a bar of honeycomb chocolate! (E.g Crunchy bar)

Caramel hot chocolate?

Add 1/4 cup whipping cream, 200g milk chocolate, 3tbsp caramel sauce and a few of your favourite caramel chocolates (May I recommend those little Galaxy ones I can't remember the name of?) 

Black Forest hot chocolate? (If you're lazy you could just stroll down to Costa Coffee...)

Regular packet mix+a few drizzles raspberry liquor+Creme de Cacoa with a sweetened cherry to decorate.



Gingerbread hot chocolate?

1 inch fresh ginger grated, 10 cloves, 2 cinnamon sticks, 1/3 cup dark brown sugar, 8 ounces dark chocolate, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. (And in case this isn't completely obvious-a gingerbread man to dip in!)








And if you're stuck for decoration ideas because let's face it you are spoilt for choice-DON't CHOOSE!!!