I decided to have a go at some recipe development this weekend and put my favourite dessert, lemon roulade, into cake form. Three deliciously light lemon sponges filled with lemon buttercream, lemon curd and crushed meringue….and there was born lemon roulade cake. I have a bit of a reputation for my lemon roulade as you may […]
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Peanut butter and salted caramel cake
Three of my favourite things in the world all together at last; Peanut butter, salted caramel and CAKE! But I cannot take the credit for this marvellous threesome, this recipe is from Cakeography. Cakeography is a beautiful book recently written and published by my lovely and gorgeous friend Lucy Charles. She describes the book as […]
Lemon ombre babyshower cake
My oldest and dearest friend Beth had her baby shower a few weeks ago and I promised to bring a cake along. She loves lemon drizzle so I decided on a three tier lemon ombre babyshower cake with home made lemon curd and butter cream filing. The expectant parents don’t know if they are having a […]
20th Birthday chocolate cake
The company I work for celebrated their 20th birthday a few weeks ago so naturally I wanted to make a chocolate cake to celebrate. I didn’t really know where to start but I knew it HAD TO BE CHOCOLATE. I also needed to be able to transport it from my parents house in Devon to my […]
The best coffee and walnut cake with coffee buttercream
This week I decided to do a little bit of cake research. I took to social media to ask what was the most popular cake to order in a cafe. The overwhelming winner was coffee and walnut cake. I hadn’t made coffee and walnut cake before and as it seems to be the peoples favourite, […]
Courgette and orange cake
I am quite a traditional baker and normally stick to the classics. However last week I had 3 courgettes that were about to go off and I HATE throwing away food so thought I would try something different and make a courgette and orange cake. The recipe originally came from BBC Good Food but I have […]