Last Friday on a shopping trip my Mum and I popped into Marks and Spencer’s for a gander and some tea. Continue reading “Baking with M&S”
Category: Cake
Miffy
Last week’s cake was for a baby shower. I got to make a lovely little Miffy with Continue reading “Miffy”
Painted Cake
Lately I’ve been tied up making my biggest cake yet :O (size wise) with 4 tiers! Sooooo… Continue reading “Painted Cake”
Cup cakes!
Been ages since I made a cupcake! Especially at 8:00 in the morning before “school” now UNI! :O Where has the time gone?! Rushing the icing in case I miss the train! Here is my Go-to 30 min cake recipe that, not only is fast (and gives time for washing up to keep, mum or aunt or anyone who has to share a kitchen with you, happy) they look super cute too!
8:00 – Check you have all ingredients (sugar + butter + eggs + self-raising flour + icing sugar + food colouring), then get the scales, bowl and electric whisk out.
8:02 – Weigh two eggs, (120g). Measure butter (120g) and sugar (135g) in a bowl, whisk until just creamy.
8:04 – Add the two eggs and whisk quick.
8:05 – Weigh in flour (145g). Whisk on medium speed till flour half mixed then on high till completely mixed and you begin to see air bubbles.
8:07 – Turn on oven to gas mark 5/ 200 degrees C (with fan). Get out cupcake tray and layout 12 cases
8:08 – Spoon batter evenly into cases.
8:10 – Put in oven on the top shelf.
8:1 1 – Wash up 😦
8:24 – Fill a mug with icing sugar and boil the kettle.
8:25 – Remove cakes from oven and onto a cooling rack.
8:26 – Pour hot water into the mug (a teaspoon at a time) to make up icing to ‘slightly runny’, then add a little food colouring.
8:29 – Add icing to cakes (reserve one to make crumbs) then sprinkle the cake crumbs on top.
8:30 – Box the cakes and run for the train! Or just chill
Have fun – speed baking!
xox Much love Holly xox
Ykids 10 Year Anniversary Cake!
Wedding Cake
A little preperation photo!
One of my best friends was married on the 9th of August 2014.
I had the pleasure of making the cake!!! I was sooo excited to take on such a challenge (and super nervous in case I made a mess of it and ruined the entire day) But I didn’t so hey ho they liked the cake!! There are three tiers, top – fruit cake, middle – chocolate fudge ‘brownie style’ cake, bottom – fruit cake. Each tier has a different pattern and yes the flowers are real…
The only thing I didn’t make was the Bride and Groom on the top, everything else was done by hand and the lace piping is on all four sides of each layer. Hope you like it!
xox Much love Holly xox
Giant Rice Krispie Cake!
Perfect for pretty much everything!
In a large pan, melt 1kg of butter (no substitutes)
then add 1kg of hard toffee, I used wherthers originals…
and 1kg of marshmallows… then
Mix it all together!!
Lastly just as as many Krispies as possible into a VERY large tin!!!
(this is 12″ by 12″ and 4″ deep and I still had leftovers!)
Leave overnight to cool and set.
Decorate or eat! Whatever takes your fancy 🙂
I love making this cake because its so simple, though it is deceivingly expensive, and you WILL need two people to mix the krispies in, unless you have a MASSIVE bowl and ‘Pop-Eye’ arms 😉
Happy Friday and Have a lovely weekend xx
xox Much love Holly xox
Oreo Cake!!
CAKE!!!!!!! and CHOCOLATE!!!!!
XOX HAPPY EASTER XOX
My consolation for 40 days and nights away from chocolate 🙂 I just had to make something extravagant!! Luckily I had the help of one of my best friends, Melissa, to make a 10″ Chocolate brownie fudge Oreo cake (it really was a two man job). The cake is layered: Oreo, Brownie sponge, Fudge icing, Oreo crumbed cream, more brownie cake, more fudge icing and finally topped off with more Oreo biscuits. This bake was another Pinterest craving! I’m slowly baking through my food pin board, it’s mostly chocolate or sweet desserts but one day I will have cooked them all. Hope you all had a wonderful Easter time remembering Jesus’ love for us all xx
xox Much love Holly xox
Ice-skating tea cups and Pirate birds
Happy New Year everyone!!!! Hope you all had a great holiday, I was back to School today finishing my UCAS application, £23 to apply for uni :O I was shocked! For the new year I challenge you to find some inspiration and create more 🙂 These are my studies from Kate Sutton’s works! She has THE CUTEST etsy shop!! Love her works so much I used her as an artist to study for my Afternoon tea project. Have a great week!!
visit >>> www.katesutton.co.uk
The First Cake Pop’s!
Merry Christmas!! Hope you have all got what you asked Father Christmas for 🙂 I got some new golden brogues!! These are pictures of a soft pastel piece I did from a Wayne Thaibauld painting. He has been an inspiration to me especially with his unique use of colour, now a days we can change the colours on photographs, but back in the 50’s he had to use his imagination, (he had tonnes of it) he was even a disney cartoonist in his early years! LOVE HIM!! His works are so bright and psychedelic yet somehow still realistic… Genious! I reccomend you google him and look at some of his works, they’re all fantastic! Happy New Year!!!
xox Much love Holly xox
The Illustrated Baker 