More of my online favourites. To see more of the recipes I adore, follow me on Pinterest. This Black-out cake with Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting just stole my heart when I first saw it. I love how beautifully it’s decorated. I just love Eva from Adventures in Cooking’s photography and you can find this recipe by visiting Adventures In Cooking. Brioche, stewed apricots, chocolate and mascarpone combined in a sandwich…um, yes Please!! I’ve loved Not Without Salt for ages and have been so inspired by Ashley, the writer, photographer and creator of stunning recipes. For this one, visit Not Without Salt. I’ve made no secret about the fact that…
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Posts Tagged ‘chocolate cake’
This is one of those show-stopper cakes that will impress your guests to no end. It does take a little work but it’s all very worth it. I first saw a crepe cake on Martha Stewart’s site and have wanted to try it ever since but knew I needed a special occasion for it and Easter is just the occasion I’ve been waiting for. You can play around with the flavours and omit the Amarula if you wish but it definitely adds a lovely creamy taste and flavour. I would love to try it again with lemon curd as a filling and a lemony glaze drizzled all over the…
I know you might say I’m evil for posting this first thing on a Monday morning. But sometimes, all you need is some chocolate to get you through the day. That’s why I thought I would share my favourite chocolate recipes with you. Funnily enough, I’m not one of those people who need to have chocolate all the time, but I do get intense cravings every now and then and when those cravings hit, I am so desperate for chocolate that I would contemplate selling my kidneys some. It’s no wonder then that there are a plethora of fabulous chocolate quotes out there and these are some of my…
Over on Food24, the editor has set a challenge for one and all to create the most delicious, beautiful cupcakes. I was delighted when I heard this as I’m quite the Cupcake Queen amongst my friends and family. When I was pregnant I had to stop working (I was a make-up and hair artist) and the sitting around drove me insane. I started baking cupcakes to keep myself busy and soon I started getting orders to make ‘couture’ cupcakes. Being fresh out of the glitz and glamour of working on shoots and fashion shows, I embraced this and poured my creativity into decorating and designing simple yet beautiful cupcakes. The…
I’ve been craving good Chocolate cake for months now. Not the kind you buy at the Home Industry that’s already kind of dry but you eat it anyway. No, I wanted moist, rich, insanely chocolatey Chocolate Cake. And then a week ago I had this intense craving for Peanut-butter and I thought, why not put the two together. I have really great Chocolate Cake recipes but I wanted to try something a bit different and whilst browsing through Tastespotting I saw this amazing cake by Foodess. Now I’m sure you’ll agree with me that, THAT cake, is probably the best looking Chocolate Cake I’ve ever seen. I fell inlove instantly…
I am the type of person who believes that fattening foods shouldn’t be tampered with. I don’t like the idea of low-fat Macaroni & Cheese or Diet burgers and chips. I think there is a reason that these things are so fattening, you are only meant to be eating them once every 2-3 months. Making them low-fat/low-sugar etc. takes the indulgence away. But I did a shoot for Avocado Magazine last week and I was asked to develop baking recipes for special diets. Lactose intolerant, gluten intolerant, diabetic, etc. I cam across the most amazing yoghurt cake recipe that is so low in fat but is probably the most moist…
This is one of those recipes that came about by pure accident. I was meant to make truffles yesterday and everything was going great until I added too much orange juice to the truffle mixture. This morning when I wanted to make the truffles, the mixture was just ever-so-slightly too soft to roll into balls. So my mind started working over time as I just could not waste this deliciously silky chocolatey ‘mess’. And then it came to me, use it as the filling for a cake. The oven was switched on and the scale was taken out and off I went into baking mode. I used the German Chocolate…
