Reindeer Cupcakes (2016)

I still have a fondness of this Christmas so I’m glad I made time(ish) to make them this year. It’s interesting having just posted the 2013 version to spot the differences. I’d say as the bake looks fuller in the cupcake case the elements look a little more in proportion. Having said that, there wasn’t……

Vegan(esque) Chocolate Cake

I’ve made gluten free bakes before but this was my first attempt at a vegan recipe. It was quite similar to a brownie bake with the use of oils and vinegars. The reason I have to call it vegan-esque was because I made a mistake with the ingredients. I put my trust in Google to enlighten……

M&M Cake

Whenever I was researching Pinterest cakes for work, this kind of cake regularly appeared. So when a chocolate-lover colleague’s birthday came up I had to have a go. It was a basic chocolate cake recipe. When I made the blunder of running out of coca powder, I remembered the Campfire Delight Cake I made with……

Ferrero Rocher Brownies

This I made for a colleague’s leaving buffet. They’d already mentioned how they loved having Ferrero Rocher around Christmas and I knew the recipe worked well Ferrero Rocher Brownies

Rocky Road

My original aim for Macmillan Coffee Morning 2016 was to focus on making traybakes in advance to spread the amount of work needed. For one thing or another that didn’t happen! Probably was a combination of life and possibly a distrust to baking in advance in case it goes stale. This should have had coconut in it……

Salted Caramel Brownie

Contrary to the quietness of the site, I have been doing a lot of baking that I’ve just not shared online. Here is a salted caramel brownie that I made to celebrate one of my colleague’s birthdays. She likes salted caramel but I’ve already done cupcakes and cheesecakes before so I wanted to find something……

Red Velvet Oreo Truffle Brownies

This was a rare time where I followed normal tradition and bought in cake for my birthday (as opposed to me bring cake for everyone else’s birthday. I don’t like in American recipes their over reliance on cake mixes.I had to cave and buy a red velvet cupcake mix to make this recipe (or maybe……

Campfire Delight Cake

Campfire Delight Cake I made this as one of the Executives was leaving for another role and someone told me he liked chocolate. In my family there’s our go-to chocolate cake recipe, so I wanted something that was a little more decadent with some opportunity for decoration (as opposed to a Devils Cake which to……

Chocolate and Guinness Cake

  I’ve been wanting to make this cake for a while. I had originally planned it for a colleague’s birthday at then work became extremely busy (like 50 hour weeks busy!) I hated the smell of the Guinness when I was pouring it out but it just adds a underlining stout flavour underneath, which you……

Marvellous Mini Egg Cake

Looking back at the photos, I must have had real trouble with the cake sizing or layering because there are parts of the cake that were concaved and the icing is misshapen. Also seeing that I ran out eggs to complete the top decoration, my guess looking back is that I used the wrong cake……