Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts

Monday, 20 December 2010

Brownies vs Blondies...Let the Baking War Commence!



Both so morish and melt in the mouth delicious, but for me, you can't beat the original - the chocolate brownie. It's Blondie sister is sweeter and spongier, but will never compare to it's infamous sibling. NOM!

Saturday, 6 November 2010

Anyone Order a Pizza?

Pizza cake!!

So tonight we're going to a murder mystery party for a friend's birthday, and the theme is surrounding the murder of a New York Italian Restaurant owner. Wanting to bring a gift on theme, me and Tommy made this EPIC pizza cake, presented in an actual (new and clean) pizza box...NOM NOM NOM!!

For the "tomato purée" base, we made strawberry flavoured butter cream, and smeared over the top of the cake.


For the cheese topping, we grated half a bar of white chocolate and cut strawberry shaped sweets into circles as "pepperoni".


Making the "olives" was quite a surgical procedure. I'm not sure of the actual name of these, but using the liquorice tubes with the white sugary filling from a packet of liquorice alsorts, I sliced into circles and removed the filling. The "ham" was made up of a wide fizzy lace cut into strips.


Finally, we added green jelly beans to act as "peppers" and mushroom sweets as "mushrooms". MMM!


This pizza cake wouldn't be complete without a box, so I managed to bag a box from a takeaway, which has been edited by Tommy to tie in with the theme of the party...


Looks good enough to eat!


Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Raspberry and White Chocolate Cupcakes



I baked a batch of cakes at the weekend using a simple plain sponge recipe with a sprinkling of white chocolate chips. The frosting was a bit of an experiment, but my god it tasted good! I fused white chocolate, butter, icing sugar, syrup, single cream and creme de framboise together and piped on the top and WAH-LAH! Delicious cupcakes <3