A rich and fruity layer cake made for Mother’s Day last week. Three layers of chocolate sponge, sandwiched together with chocolate swiss meringue buttercream and raspberry jam. Covered with raspberry swiss meringue buttercream, chocolate ganache drip and fresh raspberries. Recipe follows. Continue reading “Chocolate & Raspberry Layer Cake”
I finally got my hands on some matcha powder (that wasn’t extortionately priced!) so I made some cupcakes that I’ve been meaning to try out for quite some time. These are chocolate cupcakes with a raspberry filling, topped with a generous swirl of matcha swiss meringue buttercream. Recipe follows. Continue reading “Chocolate, Matcha & Raspberry Cupcakes”
A cake inspired by the black forest gateau – with a lot less cream! A rich chocolate sponge, filled with a morello cherry compote and covered with a morello cherry swiss meringue buttercream.
A light chocolate orange sponge, topped with an orange swiss meringue buttercream, inspired by Jaffa cakes.
What better way to celebrate Easter than enjoying chocolate cake alongside some more chocolate.. .and a bit more chocolate? A chocolate and vanilla marble cake, filled with vanilla swiss meringue buttercream and covered in a chocolate ganache drip.
This is the cake that dreams are made of (my dreams at least) – chocolate, nutella and Ferrero Rochers (my absolute favourite chocolates, take note!). I’ve been seeing drip cakes all over Instagram recently and decided it was about time I gave it a try, so what better place to start than with Ferrero Rochers? Continue reading “Ferrero Rocher drip cake”
You can never go wrong with some tasty shortbread, especially one with a layer of chocolate and a salted caramel filling. The trick is to get the ratio of shortbread to caramel to chocolate just right.. Continue reading “Salted Caramel Shortbread”