I need to stop saying this (because it’s even starting to annoy me now) but this black forest naked cake might just be the best recipe on my blog. Ever. Full stop. It ticks all the boxes: Incredibly delicious chocolate and cherry cake? TICK. Recipe that involves minimal skill or baking experience? TICK Beautiful cake…
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12 inch Almond Layer Cake
By popular request, here is the recipe for the 12 inch version of my Almond Layer Cake. This is just the recipe for the cake, without frosting, as this is most probably going to be used for a wedding cake, and therefore you’ve probably got your own frosting in mind.
Big Batch Cocktails for a Wedding
Summer is here (supposedly) and inevitably, that also means it’s Wedding Season™. We’ve recently celebrated our first wedding anniversary, and that got me thinking about some of the things we made for the wedding that I haven’t got around to sharing with you all yet. Last month I divulged my recipe for the first tier…
Almond Layer Cake with Almond Buttercream
UPDATE: You can now find the recipe for the 12 inch version of this cake right here. One year ago today, I got married. It was an incredible day, and we are spending our anniversary watching our wedding video, filling in our new wedding anniversary journal, and eating the mini replica wedding cake I have…
Champagne Layer Cake with Raspberry Buttercream
A light and fluffy white sponge cake, subtly flavoured with champagne, and smothered in creamy raspberry buttercream. This champagne layer cake is recipe #2 in my hunt for delicious cake flavour combinations for our wedding cake. Remember how badly the peach layer cake went? Thankfully, this time things were a lot more successful. This cake uses only…
The Wedding Cake Project (Part 1) – Peach Disaster
160 days to go This June I am getting married. And for some reason, I decided it would be a great idea to bake my own wedding cake. All by myself. And my Mum is having kittens about it. I know exactly what I want the cake to look like. It is inspired by this…