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Birthday Cake for Melissa

Nov 10, 2009 Author: laura | Filed under: London, cake, cute

This was a cake for my friend Melissa who turned 12 years old last week.

Pink Candy Cane Cake

Inside the cake was what I normally bake when I am not sure of someone’s preference, layers of chocolate and vanilla cake with a chocolate buttercream.

Happy Birthday Pink Cake Stripes

melissa and her cake

Cherry Blossom Cake

Aug 2, 2009 Author: laura | Filed under: cake, family

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Bottom Cake flourless chocolate and orange with dark ganache frosting
Top Cake carrot and macadamia cake with cream cheese frosting

The decoration was rushed and gross, I find it way too hard to decorate a cake iced with cream cheese so it came out a bit of a disaster.

Super Good Carrot Cake

Jul 8, 2009 Author: laura | Filed under: baking, cake

carrot
Recipe from ‘Baking from my home to yours’ by Dorie Greenspan

Apricot Crumble Cake

Jun 10, 2009 Author: laura | Filed under: cake, fruit, pudding

This is based on the famous Sour Cream Coffee Cake by Rose Levy Beranbaum. It has a super rich eggy batter which bakes into a moist soft tight crumbed cake, topped with a layer of sweet apricots and then a golden crumble topping.  It looks time intensive but it comes together very fast.

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This is one of my first fondant attempts all by myself and I am super happy with how it turned out (except for the colors, more on that below). It is a four layer cake and has a white chocolate mouselline buttercream in between all layers and on the outside. The fondant is a mix of vanilla and almond. I was meant to stripe the layers but got distracted when I was assembling the cake, hahaha FAIL.

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I didn’t have anywhere near enough time and as such my colors are not what I would like them to be but hey hey its here. I cut out the corner slice to take a photo and the cake is SO GOOD. So moist and rich and flavourful – and it has been in plastic for 3 days already because I knew I wouldn’t have time – how right I was!

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Crap tons of photos to follow (more…)