Blueberry Crumble Cake
As I was catching up on my YouTube subscriptions, this little cake appeared in the list for one of my favourite channels, Cupcake Jemma. The hubby happened to be around at the time and watched it with me then requested I make it immediately. Unfortunately for him, there were no blueberries in the house, but the next day I headed to the shops to…
Checker Board Cake with Honeycomb Icing
As is the case for many people, I have a lot of birthday's amongst my family and friends in the month of September as well as Father's Day. This year, we decided to combine my dad and brother's birthday plus Father's Day into one Sunday lunch at our house. However my brother decided he would go to the snow instead (and learn how to fall on his…
Chocingtons (Triple Chocolate Lamingtons) – Daring Bakers Challenge
When this months Daring Bakers Challenge was announced, I was pretty excited as lamingtons were on the menu. You have seen me make these delightful little morsels before when I made the standard lamington covered in coconut as well as the colourful sprinkletons. This time, I decided to go with chocolate as the main, and only, flavour and…
Christmas 2011 – Bûche de Noël
The hubby and I moved into our new house the week before Christmas in 2010. On that day, our parents made a reservation for Christmas 2011 to be held at our house. That was fine by us as we both love to cook (needless to say, our house was basically built around our kitchen) So in the months before Christmas we were working out a…
Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
When there is a birthday at the hubby's work, one of the women in his office is the dedicated birthday cake maker. For one of the recent birthdays, she was unavailable so I was asked to make the birthday cake for D. The cake chosen was one I haven't made before, being a Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Icing, but it was super simple and…
Lamingtons and Sprinkletons
There is a rule, in my house anyway, that on Australia Day you must eat a lamington. I did kind of break that rule this year, although we did eat Pavlova instead, but I think I more than made up for it by making a whole bunch of them a couple of days later. A friend of mine from Mexico Victoria was staying with us at the time, and they do…
Lemon Sour Cream Cake with Pine Nuts
The hubby and I have a little addiction to pine nuts. We will put them in everything we can whether it be pasta, lasagne or salad. However, I have never had them in a sweet dish. Imagine my delight when I bought Classic Cakes by The Australian Women's Weekly with one of the very first cakes in the book being a Lemon Sour Cream Cake which…
Maple Apple Cake
So you will have gathered by now that I am in love with the rose shape/swirl as I use it for my cupcakes, on cakes and even, to a possibly far-fetched connection, in my vegetable tart. It will come as no surprise that I actually own a rose shaped cake tin. I have had this beautiful tin from NordicWare for quite some time now and I definitely…
MasterChef “Eve” Cake
During last year's season of MasterChef Australia they had a week dedicated to all things love. Awww... Kirsten Tibballs from Savour School in Melbourne featured in a couple of episodes and in episode number 44 Kirsten made a dessert by the name of Eve which looked absolutely amazing and I knew I had to make it. After the episode aired,…
Mint Cheesecake
Once again it was the hubby's friend J's birthday, you may remember him from the Purple Corset Cake, which meant something mint flavoured was on the menu. Although I was considering trying something new this year, in the end I stuck with an oldie but a goodie being a mint cheesecake chock full of Peppermint Crisp and crème de menthe liqueur on…
My Best Friend’s Wedding… Cake
In February I had the utmost pleasure of making the wedding cake for one of my best friend's on her wedding day. I have never EVER made a wedding cake before, and given I had only got married myself in October last year, I knew how much pressure there is for it to be perfect (after the annoyance we went through with ours, but that's another…
Orange and Almond Cake
Where I work, on your birthday you bring in a cake to share with everyone but if truth be told, any day is a good day for cake in our office. Recently it was K's birthday and the cake she made was an Orange and Almond cake. After the first few bites, there were a few requests for the recipe and I decided to give this moist, gluten free cake a…
Pastel de Tres Leches (Three Milk Cake) – Daring Bakers Challenge
A few months ago I finally signed up to be a Daring Baker, which is something I had been hearing about via some of the blogs I follow. The main reason it interested me was so that I would make something I might normally not have made as I tend to stick with what I am comfortable with. This month was no exception. I had heard of a "three…
Peach Ombre Petal Cake
I was lucky enough to be asked to make the cake to celebrate the 90th birthday of my friend's grandmother. When the G-Star was asked what cake she would like for her birthday, the answer was for the same as the wedding cake. The decoration had to be different so instead of piping roses on the outside as I did for the wedding cake, I used…
Purple Corset Cake
One of the hubby's best mates turned 40 at the beginning of March and the hubby came home one night and asked if I would like to make the cake for J's birthday. Of course I said yes, and then he asked if I could make the cake in the shape of breasts. Even though I haven't really made a lot of "novelty" cakes, well, make that none whatsoever,…
Red Velvet Rose Cake for Inner Wheel
In May I was asked to recreate the red velvet rose cake from My Best Friend's Wedding Cake by the mother of the bride for a luncheon of the local Inner Wheel group in August. The cake was to be predominately the same as the wedding cake, however as the symbol of the Inner Wheel is a red rose, a few of these were scattered in amongst the…
Southern Bombe
Another one of the cookbooks I purchased recently was SprinkleBakes by Heather Baird. I came across Heather's blog when I was looking for red recipes to use up the extra food colouring purchased for My Best Friend's Wedding Cake and I made the Red Spiral Biscuits, also featured in the book. As I was flicking through the book when it…
Sticky Date Cake with Butterscotch Sauce
For the latest birthday cake at the hubby's place of employment, a sticky date cake with butterscotch sauce was requested. As with the hummingbird and carrot cake I have made them previously, this was another that I had not attempted before so I checked my trusty Women's Weekly Classic Cakes book, which of course contained said recipe, and got…
Vanilla Malted Milk Cake
Given there are two Popcorn and Malteser Macaron posts on this blog, you might assume that I am a fan of the malt flavour. Well that assumption is correct my friend. In fact, my go-to milkshake flavour is the combination of two of my favourite things, vanilla and malt. So when the Vanilla Malted Milk Cake by Hungry Rabbit appeared on my…
Vanilla Sprinkle Cake (Gluten-Free)
A couple of years ago a tutorial from The Cake Blog appeared in my Pinterest feed for a DIY Rainbow Sprinkle Cake. Of course I pinned it straight away, but in true Cath fashion, it has taken a couple of years to actually have a go at it. I did not make the cake in rainbow colours as Kate from The Greedy Baker did in the tutorial as I was…