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!

Cake #196 - Mississippi Mud Cake

Friday with Mississippi Mud Cake. A family favourite.

Mississippi Mud Cake

200 g butter
100 g dark chocolate
150 ml water
300 ml caster sugar
300 ml plain flour
½ tsp baking powder
2 tbsp cocoa powder
2 eggs

1. Preheat the oven to 170C and grease and flour a 22 cm springform cake pan.
2. Melt butter and chocolate together and beat in sugar and water until smooth.
3. Fold in the flour mixed with cocoa powder and slightly beaten eggs.
4. Pour into cake pan and bake in the oven for about 50 minutes so that the middle of the cake is still a little moist.
5. Let cool in the pan before placing the cake on a serving plate.
6. Serve with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream. Fresh fruit and berries go well with mud cake, too.

Cakes #193, #194 and #195 - Midweek Madness!

Midweek Madness!

#193 Chocolate Temptation with White Chocolate Buttercream and White Chocolate, Milk Chocolate and Dark Chocolate

#194 Raspberry&Vanilla Boston Cake

#195 Carrot Cake with Mascarpone Icing


Chocolate Temptation with White Chocolate Buttercream and White Chocolate, Milk Chocolate and Dark Chocolate

Base
175g self-raising flour
1 tsp soda
150g caster sugar
2 large eggs
150 ml sunflower oil
150 ml milk
2 tbsp syrup

1. Mix together all ingredients for base and beat well. 
2. Divide the batter into four bowls and into first batch add 1 tsp cocoa powder and mix well. Into second batch add 2 tsp cocoa powder and mix well and into third batch 3 tsp cocoa powder and mix well. Leave the fourth batch as it is.
3. Grease and flour four 20 cm cake pans and preheat the oven to 200C.
4. Bake bases in the oven for about 15 minutes and cool before removing from pans.

Filling
100 g white chocolate
100 g butter
300 g icing sugar

Melt together chocolate and butter and sieve in icing sugar carefully and mix well. Add more icing sugar if needed to get a good consistency.

To compile and decorate
spread icing on each cake layer. Pipe melted white, milk and dark chocolate on top and sides if you wish. Let cake set for an hour before serving.

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Raspberry&Vanilla Boston Cake

Dough
See my Boston Cake recipe here. Follow the recipe carefully but instead of filling the cake with cinnamon and butter, spread vanilla creme and raspberries on the rolled base.

Filling

Vanilla Creme

400 ml milk

3 tbsp sugar

2 egg yolks

2 tbsp corn flour

3 tsp vanilla sugar or 2 tsp vanilla extract

1. Mix all ingredients together except vanilla in a saucepan.

2. Heat over medium heat until the mixture thickens but does not boil.

3. Let cool down and add vanilla sugar/extract.

200 g raspberries (fresh or defrosted from frozen)

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Carrot Cake with Mascarpone Icing

The recipe for this delicious cake is by Mary Berry, you can find it here. To decorate the cake, I shaped some fruit-looking-things of sugar paste.