Daring Bakers make Fresh Fraisiers!

Jana of Cherry Tea Cakes was our July Daring Bakers’ host and she challenges us to make Fresh Frasiers inspired by recipes written by Elisabeth M. Prueitt and Chad Robertson in the beautiful cookbook Tartine.

A fraisier cake is basically two layers of sponge cake filled with pastry cream topped with a glaze and decorated around the exterior of the cake with beautiful fresh strawberries, not being a great fan of either sponge or cream i decided to experiment a little and to see what i could come up with to satisfy my sweet tooth! Instead of doing a traditional chiffon cake i made a coffee-flavoured Baileys sponge which i filled with a cinnamon cheesecake-like filling to substitute pastry cream. I used blueberries as my fruit and made a coffee glaze which i topped with walnut struesel. It actually turned out pretty yummy :D

Thanks Jana for a great challenge for July!!

Kitchen Tea Baking Time!

So my best friend got married last month and as her maid of honour i was in charge of planning her kitchen tea, meaning loads of baking :D
I decided to try out a Red Velvet Cake and also a Dulce De Leche Cheesecake - Delish!

Some of the spread!

The beautiful bride to be with the Red Velvet

Me putting the final touches on the cheesecake

Dulce De Leche Cheesecake with toffee shards!

I've been told both were very tasty and enjoyed by all!

First blog - wonka cake!

Howdy bloggers :)

This is my first ever post, i decided it was a necessity to start my own blog after becoming so addicted to food blogs recently! So to start off here's a picture of a Wonka bar cake i made last year, its a bit dodgy(im terrible with fondant icing!) but it was my first attempt so i hope you like!