Saturday 12 March 2011

chocolate mint cake and girly pink birthday cake...

Eliza's birthday cake.
Been a busy few days at the Bakehouse.  I started with Eliza's 2nd Birthday cake - all pink, girly and pretty.  Who can resist pink birthday cake?!! It's a flavourful vanilla sponge underneath the gooey pinkness.  Simple yet tasty.  A perfect combination if you ask me.


I followed this with, what I believe to be possibly one of the best after dinner birthday cakes, a chocolate mint cake. Made to feed a crowd for a 40th Birthday.  Suitably chocolatey with a subtle minty buttercream - who can beat that?!

a little bit of chocolatey minty heaven
And this morning's fun and games has been cupcakes.  Made all the more interesting with the addition of a powercut!!!  Fun! Fun! Fun!  I've done very chocolatey fudge ones decorated with lovely swirls of fudgy icing and tiny chocolate stars.  And, my current cupcake preference, the coconut & lime taste of tropical heaven.  Made all the sweeter as the sleet batters against the windows and the temperature plummets again.  Thought it was Spring!?  It's a lovely coconuty light sponge with a swoosh of citrusy lime buttercream speckled with tiny flakes of lime zest.   Yummy!

I've planned well and have a few extras left over to enjoy with friends, wine and pizza tonight!!  Has to be a wee perk to the job you know!

coconuty lime loveliness
chocolate heaven

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