Colourful icing cakes!
I rushed these a bit, not my normal perfection I must admit, but I think they look pretty enough. Sadly the shops where my parents live had a distinct lack of cake decorations so I opted for cherries instead.
I used Betty Crocker vanilla frosting and coloured it with icing colourings. I think gel ones would [...]
Strawberry Shortcake Cookies and Classic Cheese Gougères
Aloha my lovely blog readers, I do apologise for the length of time it has taken for me to get another blog post up, time simply gets in the way!
Anyway, today I made some delicious strawberry shortcake cookies using british strawberries! Unfortunately they have to be eaten with a day according to the instructions, [...]
International cuisine
Due to me moving house and all, I haven’t been able to cook for the past couple of weekends, so I’ve decided to go through my travelling photos and find a few photos of food I sampled around the world. Apologies for the slightly blurry quality of some of these photos, I had a [...]
High tea: Victoria sponge and organic chocolate and pear cake
A friend been declaring his love for chocolate and pear cake so I looked up a recipe online and found a great one from The Chocolate trading Co (click for Recipe). I then warmed 50g of 85% cocoa organic chocolate and drizzled it over the top, covering the pears. I love the way the chocolate [...]
Spring has sprung in Southsea
We have been lucky of late with the beautiful sunshine. I walked to work via Southsea seafront the other morning and spotted these flowers in the gardens along there, so I went back yesterday and made the best use of the natural daylight. In fact it was so bright that many of the flowers came [...]
My competition entry!
Here is my competition entry for Woman and Home’s cupcake competition.
I baked cupcakes in silicon cases so they were easy to get out. Then I made a saucer and cup from fondant icing and used melted fudge on the top of the cupcake to make it look like tea!
I call it the cup-of-tea-cake!