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 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 [...]

Lived a ma-a-an, Who sailed to sea And he told us of his life, In the la-a-and of submarines We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine…. I’ll save you the rest of the song, I’m sure we all know how it goes. I remember being taught it in primary school… It [...]

We heard no screams of horror last week and so it’s back, the round-up of random stuff we found interesting this week! First up, on Sunday Fete and Feast gave us a lesson on Ham and Lamb in time for Easter this weekend. Which will you be having for dinner on Sunday? The Daily Green [...]

A 60th birthday was approaching, we were asked to provide the cake.. With a small catch, it needed delivering to New Orleans.* We were given fairly free reign with this cake, as long as it fed 200 people, tasted good and had a 60s/hippy theme then all was well. Given the delivery requirements we also [...]

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 [...]

Bolt’s dog tag.  A 12″ chocolate cake with chocolate English buttercream and milk modeling chocolate exterior.  The entire outside was detailed with an edible bronze powder to give it the appearance of metal.