Want to look at cakes and ponder baking ideas? This is for you! 2020 was a strange year with many challenges (to put it mildly) but also lots of time spent in the kitchen. So we’ll take a peek at what was made from my […]
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Happy new year!!! Top posts in 2017 and baking projects for 2018… And how are healthier and vegan cakes doing? :)
Hello there fellow cake people! Hope you’re having a lovely 2018! It’s time for new year’s resolutions … um in my case a list of cakes I’d like to make this year! Yay! First looking back at 2017 in the featured photo above you can […]
How to make a beach cake – easy! :)
Beach cakes are such happy creations, fun and easier than you’d think using your favourite sponge cake and frosting. Cream cheese frosting works perfectly and there’s a recipe for this and the decor below. Though considering the decorations involve digestive biscuits (aka Graham crackers), blue […]
A comedy of errors at the Cordon Bleu, the final vote and Xmas recipes
Learning from my baking mishaps during the last week of the Cordon Bleu pâtisserie course, we’ll be looking at what not to do with a croquembouche but first can you spot what’s wrong with my Triomphe de noix? The walnut caramel mousse cake hiccup If […]
Cakes with some savoury petits fours – at the Cordon Bleu Paris
Yes, we had a savoury break and discovered the wonder of inverted puff pastry. You make it by hanging it out of the window upside-down. Sorry, I meant by having the butter on the outside of the dough instead of inside as in classic puff […]
Cakes and chocolates – at the Cordon Bleu, Paris
A run-down of last week’s cakes and chocolate you can vote for if you’d like to see them up on the blog with adapted and simplified recipes! 🙂 There’s the delicious multi-layered Opera cake with joconde sponge, coffee buttercream and syrup then chocolate ganache and […]
Cakes from le Cordon Bleu pâtisserie course in Paris! Please vote! :)
Last week’s cake production was a little crazy, even by my standards! I gave some away to my landlord for his family and friends and to the homeless in the street, who looked happy to be given cake. One started eating a macaron immediately. This […]
Cakes and Paris
From a mourning Paris I’ll just quickly give you the cake run-down first. The day before leaving for Paris I made a heavenly Raspberry, goats cheese and fig pavlova. The topping is easy and delicious and if you haven’t discovered pavlovas yet then do consider […]
Week (31) of cakes, icing and climbing! And another festival!!!
It’s nice to make little treats but as a master pâtissier recently said it’s easier to create a strong visual impact with BIG cakes so it’s good to bake those too. Another thing I discovered was the huge difference icing can make to appearance and […]
Week (3) of cakes! Eating then photo-collaging the evidence
Another hard week of making and eating cakes! This week there were some healthy and ‘almost-healthy’ cakes, as I’m now calling them. Hey, reduced portions of butter, eggs, flour and dairy products can be good for you! Three words: ‘small slices’ and ‘willpower’ – of […]
