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Brownie Banoffee Pie

Jun 12, 2009 Author: laura | Filed under: Uncategorized

SO much GOOD in one baby tart. I made these to take to a sleepover with my 3 best friends in the entire world. I LOVE YOU GUYS! Very excited because we don’t get to hang out that often, especially not for a whole night now that we are like, semi-adults and all that have jobs and stuff. Yay! xx
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This may or may not be the best desert ever invented by me in the entire world. Yes. Yes.
Banoffee Pie (So biscuit base, sticky toffee caramel filling, a layer of fresh bananas, topped with sweet whipped cream and a heart shape of rich decadent brownie)

Vanilla Vanilla Cupcakes for sale

Jun 10, 2009 Author: laura | Filed under: Uncategorized

Rich Vanilla Vanilla Cupcakes with a Cherry Cream Cheese frosting. All made from scratch with real vanilla beans and cherries. Filled with your choice of caramel, chocolate ganache, white chocolate mousse and a whole heap more available on enquiry.

$2.50 each or 1 dozen for $28

Topped with edible sugar flowers…

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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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Rosewater and Pistachio Cake & Cupcakes

Jun 3, 2009 Author: laura | Filed under: cake, cupcakes

I was working from home today – by that I mean I was feeling like crap so I did 2/3rds of a day in bed on my laptop :) I was so drawn to the bottle of rosewater that has been in my cupboard for a long time I just had to make something.

So here it is. A vanilla rosewater cake, with a ground pistachio filling and a sweet rosewater glaze. The glaze tastes like roses, pretty amazing but I made it too runny and I don’t like how the photos have turned out. Oh well. I’m sure the recipient of my cake will be happy tomorrow.

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