It’s hotter than hell down here in Texas at the moment, making a devil’s food cake more than appropriate. Maybe I can bribe the heat with the cupcakes to go away and not return! Sadly I can’t claim this recipe as my own, I made no changes (excepting making cupcakes rather than one big cake [...]

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 [...]

Tiramisu comes from the Italian for “pick me up” and boy does it. This has to be one of my all time favourite desserts. If you’ve not had it before where have you been? The best way to explain (aside from saying go try some now!) is that it’s an Italian trifle.  I’ll go ahead [...]

It didn’t take me long to get round to a second attempt at fudge did it? I decided to start my adventures with “proper” fudge with a favourite flavour, chocolate.. with a few pecans added for good measure. Fudge comes under the category of crystallised  candy, the sugar has to be cooled and then beaten [...]

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 [...]

There are times when a simple chocolate chip cookie just isn’t enough, more chocolate is needed. That’s when these babies are needed! A pound of chocolate, and cocoa powder too, these definitely scratch that chocolate itch. As a bonus, they’re barely any harder to make than regular cookies. Cream the butter and sugar together and [...]

Back in December I made peppermint shortbread, it’s a variant on Millionaire’s shortbread. I felt certain I had already waxed lyrical about the wonders of millionaire’s shortbread but when I went to look for it I found that I had not. How could this be, it had to be remedied… a month later. I can [...]