Cake #204 - Chocolate Madeleines

Saturday Dessert - Chocolate Madeleines.

I am fascinated by these little cakes and the shape of them. They are pretty, they are small - I could easily eat them all...!

Chocolate Madeleines (makes 36)

200 ml plain flour
100 ml unsweetened cocoa powder
pinch of salt
4 large eggs
250 ml granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla sugar
175 g butter, melted

1. Sift together flour, cocoa and salt.
2. Place eggs and sugar in a large bowl and whisk until thick. Fold in flour, then melted butter.
3. Butter the madeleine pans, then spoon in the batter, filling each about three fourths full.
4. Heat the oven to 200 C.
5. Bake the madeleines for about 7 minutes and turn them immediately from the molds.
6. Enjoy fresh.

Cake #203 - Strawberry and Lemon Cake

Friday Strawberry Dream,
shortbread and sponge cake, filled with home-made lemon curd and Finnish Fazer lemon flavoured white chocolate mixed with whipped cream. Fresh strawberries and lemon meringue sprinkles on top.

A summer cake. Fresh. Colourful. Worth developing a little further. Stay tuned for upgrade to next level...

Cake #202 - Raspberry Mud Cake

Raspberry Mud Cake,
made of Fazer raspberry flavoured dark chocolate.


Raspberry Mud Cake

200 g Fazer Raspberry Dark Chocolate (or dark chocolate and a few drops of raspberry extract)
200 g butter
3 eggs
200 ml granulated sugar
1 tsp baking powder
250 ml plain flour
125 g fresh raspberries (and more to decorate)

1. Preheat the oven to 175 C and grease and flour a 22 cm springform cake pan.
2. Melt chocolate and butter.
3. Beat together eggs and sugar.
4. Mix together flour and baking powder and fold into the egg and sugar mix.
5. Fold in chocolate and butter and then carefully the raspberries.
6. Pour into pan and bake in the oven for about 30 minutes.
7. Let cool before removing from pan.
8. Serve with ice cream and fresh raspberries.

You can find the original recipe in Finnish on the Fazer website.

Cake #201 - Birthday Cake

A small surprise birthday cake with Minecraft theme for a friend of my son's.

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Sponges are coloured with different shades of blue food colouring. Filling is vanilla buttercream and topping is rolled sugarpaste cut into squares.

Cake #200 - St. Patrick's Day Sandwich Cake

St Patrick's Day Sandwich Cake.

Compiled of slices of white and brown toast, filled with garlic&herbs cheese, pickled dill cucumber and ham, and decorated with spinach, carrot and Tayto's cheese&onion crisps.

Cake #199 - Happy St. Patrick's Day!

***Happy St. Patrick's Day!***


The recipe I used is for this Rainbow Cake.  Using food colouring I just created different shades of green for the six layers. The filling and topping is vanilla buttercream and the decorations green and orange sprinkles.

Cakes #197 and #198 - Saturday Treats for the Family

Saturday Treats for the Family.

#197 Raspberry, Blueberry & Yogurt Cake.

#198 Apple & Almond Cake.

Again I was googling for recipes and found what I wanted to match the ingredienst in my pantry / fridge.

You can find the recipe for the Raspberry, Blueberry & Yogurt Cake here. (I used 100 raspberries and 100 g blueberries instead of just raspberries)

The Apple and Almond Cake is made using this recipe by Mary Berry.

Both were very yummy and sophisticated cakes. Even The Husband who is not really a friend of almond essence, liked the Apple and Almond Cake!