I’ve been on a bit of a blogging hiatus and posting pretty randomly for the past few months. I’ve been working on lots of different things – some of which I’m super excited to share on here. Like these macarons, which might be my new fave flavour (I think I say that every time I make new ones). These were for my cousin’s birthday. She doesn’t really do cake so every year I make her some sort of macarons or macaron cake hybrid, as she can eat about a million of them. I went for banoffee as it’s such a classic combo and these were full of flavour. To make them I …

Oh HEY! I’d abandoned blog for a bit while working on lots of exciting things. The weeks have been flying by at an unnaturally fast pace and I’ve realised I hadn’t shared anything since Valentine’s. Doh. So here are some good looking cake guys for you. I made these Ferrero Rocher cupcakes this past week and they went down pretty darn well. Here’s how I did it. I began by …

It’s that time of year again. Everything gets heart-shaped and love songy. I’ve made a lot of Valentine’s things over the years but thought I would stick with a classic for these cupcakes. Love hearts! I made teeny heart shaped biscuits using this small cutter and iced some traditional messages of love on them. As you can see I …

It’s almost unbelievable how good things turn out sometimes. Yesterday was my Dad’s birthday. Yesterday the new Carole King Musical ‘Beautiful’ had its first night of previews in London. My Dad is a HUGE Carole King fan. Ta da! The perfect birthday plans! (made even better by pre-theatre burgers at Shake Shack !!) I knew it would make his day to have the theme of the cake be the musical. I looked up some of the posters from the show from here and Broadway and designed it using the colours and patterns – you can see the examples below. So yeh. That’s a little young Carole King sitting on his cake. Of course. I covered the …