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…
Chocolate Cupcakes with Rose Buttercream
Hi. My name is Cath, and I am a cupcake-a-holic. As you may have gathered, I love to cook, and especially bake. I do love all kinds of baking, but at the end of the day, as much as I love macarons, cakes, biscuits and brownies, my true love is cupcakes. They are cute little packages of delight, sure to bring a smile to anyone's dial.…
Marshmallow Fondant
I believe I have mentioned once or twice my dislike of fondant and the hubby especially hates it. But as it is pretty regularly used in the cake decorating world I need to suck it up and find something that I actually am happy working with and that I actually like eating. My friend Chuy from Chuy's Cakes (you may have noticed the link on the…
Milk and Cookies Cupcakes
Quite a while ago, 2nd July 2012 to be exact, a very cute post appeared in my feed reader for some cupcakes. The post was by Steph from Raspberri Cupcakes, who inspired the Fruit Tingle Macarons, for her Milk and Chocolate Chip Cookie Cupcakes. I tend to decorate my cupcakes quite basic with my favourite rose swirl piping technique, but there…
Oreo Cookies and Cream Cupcakes
One of my favourite flavour combinations in this world happens to be "cookies and cream". Generally, if there is something cookies and cream flavoured I will try it at least once, whether it is chocolate (Hershey's is my top pick), ice cream (Connoisseur is the ONLY brand as far as I am concerned) or as a cupcake. Now I have tried a lot of…
Swiss Meringue Buttercream
I use Swiss Meringue Buttercream (or SMB for short) a lot. You have heard me go on and on about it as my weapon icing of choice, so I thought it was about time it got a post of its own to share the variations and tricks I have learned along the way. You have seen me use it as the filling in my Purple Corset Cake and Bûche de Noël, and for…