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!

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.