Firefly has always been a favourite show of ours. Neither of us discovered it until it had sadly ended but it hooked us in and is a show we can happily re-watch (when we have that elusive thing known as free time). Apologies to anyone not familiar with the show Firefly, a lot of this [...]

We got a request for a peanut butter cup cake, it didn’t need to be huge, the shape and flavour were the important bits. We umm-ed and ahh-ed over trying to make a peanut butter flavoured cake but finally settled on a chocolate cake with a peanut butter flavoured icing. The cake had some mild [...]

We had a cake this weekend for a bridal shower, so we decided to squeeze in an extra post this week (hopefully – assuming I remember to post on Wednesday) to show it off.

We had a fun cake to make this week, one we were looking forward to as soon as we knew what they wanted. We are both fans of the films of Hayao Miyazaki, so a cake based off of Ponyo his latest, more child friendly, film excited us. They wanted the main focus to be [...]

Saint Patrick’s Day is a National holiday in Ireland, I can’t explain it’s phenomenon worldwide however. It is widely celebrated in America by Irish and non-Irish alike. It’s apparently one of the leading days for consumption of alcohol in the US, and is typically one of the busiest days of the year for bars and [...]

AKA – Cutesey Valentines Cupcakes! Of course we needed something cute and adorable to mark the day. These cupcakes have the bonus of being quick and easy to make too so you can whip some out for your sweet. They started out life as just plain white chocolate cupcakes.. Obviously I needed something pink, strawberry [...]

Our centrepiece cake this year was a pumpkin cake. Well, actually it was a butter cake, but it was shaped like a pumpkin.. that still counts as a pumpkin cake right? We were attempting not to be left with too much leftover cake so we just made it an 8 inch round cake, 3 layers [...]

The first known recipe using the term “cupcake” appeared in an American cookbook in 1826, although they were probably made long before then. It became revolutionary because of the short length of time it took to cook, their size meaning that the outside was not burnt before the inside was baked. In recent years the [...]

For the local astronomical society we made a butter cake with English buttercream. Covered in fondant and airbrushed to resemble the night sky, with just the last hints of daylight on the horizon. The stars are pearl dragees and royal icing, for some variety in size, then we added some large stars on wires.