cake

When I was asked to make a Persian New Year cake I wasn’t really sure what to do as I had never seen or heard of one before. There isn’t a traditional dessert as such so my task was to create a cake to celebrate by combining traditional Middle Eastern flavours. I chose to make a pistachio cake layered with honey buttercream and raspberry and pomegranate jam. I tripled the recipe I used for this cake as I knew it would be delicious and be able to hold the treats on top. I coated the whole cake in the honey buttercream and covered the sides with crushed pistachios. For the top of the cake …

This is a first for me. It’s a sort of virtual birthday celebration! It’s for my close friend’s Grandmother, Judy. She lives in America but I was asked to make a cake to commemorate the day anyway. I love that Judy keeps up with my blog and always writes such lovely comments that mean so much to me. It’s always so nice to get positive feedback on my bakes and she is never short of a nice word or a sweet phrase that always make me smile. I also love that I can dedicate a whole post just for her on her special day. I had the pleasure of visiting her in …

Bonjour! This cake is for the lovely Tiffany who is turning 21. To celebrate she is going to Paris so I thought it would only be right to use this as the inspiration for her cake. It’s a chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream, covered in pale pink fondant and finished with a pink polka dot ribbon. Amazingly just before I made this cake my parents took a trip to Paris so they picked up an Eiffel Tower for me to decorate the top of the cake. The best thing about it is that it …

Sprinkles. So many sprinkles. I love them at the best of times but covering a cake head to toe is definitely my new favourite way of using them. Not only does it scream birthday but it was ridiculously fun to make. Sure, I got them EVERYWHERE but who cares when the end result looks this cool. The birthday girl is a fan of purple so the inside is a purple ombre cake filled with …