Chocolate Finger & Maltesers Birthday Cake

I decided I would make a birthday cake for my Mum's birthday tomorrow. This is how it turned out - 

Although Mum said only a little cake - I turned out to be massive! Enough to feed an army - hehe! Basically, it is a chocolate & beetroot cake in both layers smothered with a chocolate butter cream to stick chocolate fingers on and the ribbon holds them in place, then finally adding chocolate maltesers on top!

Chocolate & Beetroot Cake Hedgehogs

As it is half term and I have really wanted to try making a cake hedgehog for a while, I just had to have a go... 

They turned out well I thought for a first attempt - I would definitely make them again, but next time I do, I need to make sure I make 3 times the recipe of Chocolate buttercream so the buttons sit in better. 

Everyone who had a slice said it was very tasty and I thought it was very tasty too! I would definitely make again! (I also named them, on the left is Henry and on the right is Harriet!)

Parsnip & Maple Syrup Cake

This is a Parsnip & Maple Syrup cake. The cake has ingredients such as parsnips, an apple, maple syrup and it should contain pecans, but I forgot to add them! Oops!

I was very nice and the two sponges are sandwiched together with Maple Syrup icing.  

This cake was made for my sixth assessment in my Cooking & Baking 101 class I am taking. 

Christmas Cake 2012

This is a photo of my Christmas cake that I decorated in 2012. I used different ready rolled icing for the topping and just coloured them to what I needed. Once I had finished decorating my cake, I sprayed it with 'Silver Shimmer Spray' to give it the sparkly effect. I used extra on the cheeks to make them look kind of rosy. 

3 Layer Chocolate Trifle

Last night I made a 3 Layer Chocolate Trifle. It was made up of a McVities chocolate cake, whipping cream and 2 chocolate Angel Delight packets, oh and I mustn't forget the milk & white chocolate buttons!!

Well basically, I just mashed the chocolate cake at the bottom of the bowl, and then whipped the cream and then placed that on the top and then whipped the Angel Delights (it went everywhere!!!) and then smashed the buttons.

Here is the picture of the chocolate trifle but unfortunately the picture of the layers didn't come out - it was all blury!!

Coffee & Walnut Cake

Back Again... Today I've made a coffee & walnut cake for my Grandad's birthday tomorrow. It was very easy to make and the recipe is easy to remember. The cake was crispy on the outside and soft in the middle - A perfect textured cake!!