birthday cake

Grandy’s Naked Cake

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Today is my Grandy’s birthday. We decided to make her something summery (even though this week’s weather thinks it’s October). We went for a naked cakey but piped the buttercream to keep the edges neat and used lots of fresh strawberries and raspberries sandwiched with

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Lindt Cupcakes

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Chocolate on chocolate on chocolate. Lindt specificially. That’s how we are doing things over here today. Not a summer fruit in sight. Before I started to make and assemble these cupcakes I made a Lindt ganache. This was equal measures (300g each) of Lindt chocolate bars crushed and double cream. I then made my favourite chocolate cupcakes recipe. Once they

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Paper Peony Cake

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I think I’m pretty late to the party but over the past few months I’ve been learning new and cool things from Craftsy. I’d been hearing about it for a while, but not had the time to sit down and try out a class. When I saw that one of my fave cake makers Stevi Auble of ‘Hey There Cupcake’ had a wafer paper flower class I was all over it. I bought the stuff. Did the class and made this cake. It was such a great way to learn something new. Super clear and

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Cake for Luisa

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That crazy fun cousin of mine Luisa is over from America visiting. We’ve had the best few days hanging out. We danced to S Club at the O2, took afternoon tea at Sketch, went for a proper English roast and ate lots of this cake. It was her birthday just before she arrived so I wanted to have a little belated celebration with her. For a while now I’ve been inspired by Katherine Sabbath and my Instagram feed is constantly full of delicious looking cakes dripping with ganache. I wanted to give it a go myself. So I chose to do an Oreo cake with a milk chocolate ganache drip. THE best combo. I made

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