starting out
mix it up
scraped clean
finished cakes
first layer
taking shape
finished structure
iced
faced
Cooking is an art but baking is a science! Check out mine and others' experiments... and their varying degrees of sucess here on bake away. All for the love of baking.
Little did Laura know her mention of seeing the coolest cake ever in the shape of a hedgehog would be stored away ready to be recalled and actioned on the ocassion of her next birthday. Together Susan and I created the structural masterpiece from chocolate sponge, fixed together with chocolate buttercream icing. The outer icing was a chocolate ganache, topped with buttons pushed vertically into the sponge. The face was made from sugar paste (coloured with cocoa). Ta-Dah!
getting started
lemon &lime icing
chocolate ganache
decorations (handmade)
part way through
extra pair of hands (aka mummy)
the finished product!
chocolate close up
lemony goodness
Emily(recently enagaged): I have a favour to ask
Isabel: Ok, what is it?!
Emily: Would you make cupcakes for my wedding?
Isabel: Of course! I would ABSOLUTely love to, it would be an honour, a joy, fun! As long as it isn’t some ridiculous number like 150 or something!
Emily: …well I was thinking 160 would be enough.
Isabel: Oh.
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168 cupcakes later and I never want to see another for atleast… 48 hours (let’s not be too extreme). Photos document some of the process and the final outcome - Vanilla, chocolate and lemon, all with beautiful homemade sugar heart decoration… courtesy of my mother’s fair hands.
Christmas 2008 - perfect mince pies
knitting fan bday cake
3 layer chocolate fudge
trad. austrian apfel struedel
finished struedel
macaroons attempt #1
work experience thank you
This is my first blog post ever. I find the whole blogging thing a bit overwhelming so my aim here is to be simple. Maybe the point of blogging is to ramble somewhat (not something I am unknown to do) but as the focus of bake-a-way will be a documentation of culinary creations (my own and others) the majority of the content will be visual - if only taste and smell could accompany that! - with the minimum of text as way of explanation/elaboration.
