Happy birthday to my lovely friend Jo! I made her this easy, from scratch cherry Victoria sponge cake with chocolate for her birthday and she was thrilled! Continue reading
Tag Archives: birthday cake
Chocolate mud cake from scratch recipe
27 Nov
My firstborn just turned ten! Farewell Miss 9, hello Miss 10! My lovely gal requested a chocolate mud cake for her birthday and her wish was my command.
This was the first time I had made a dark chocolate mud cake from scratch and I was thrilled with the result. It was rich without being cloying, dense without being heavy and perfectly moist. Continue reading
Lemonade birthday cake with cinnamon buttercream recipe
17 Oct
It was my BFF’s birthday recently and a celebratory picnic was in order. Families and kids were rounded up, cheese was purchased, Pimms organised, rugs placed in cars. And a cake was baked. Continue reading
Australian Women’s Weekly swimming pool cake
2 Oct
If you’re an Aussie and under the age of 45 you most probably had this cake made for a birthday cake at some point in your life. I did ad I loved it. And in true keeping-it-in-the-family-style, Miss9 has also had it made for her. Continue reading
How to bake a pinata cake with candy from scratch
24 Aug
I have baked many, many cakes in my time but nothing has even come close to the reaction I received when I presented this piñata cake. Continue reading
Donna Hay carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
14 May
Hip hip hooray! It was recently the Hungry Mum’s mum’s birthday (or, the Hungry Nonna as she likes to be known. FYI she’s not Italian, just an Italian nonna wannabe!)
The extended Hungry family gathered for breakfast recently at a cafe near the Hungry Nonna’s home, and after eggs and toast and coffee and pancakes were consumed it was cake time!
Carrot cake has long been one of mum’s favourite cakes and everyone loves cream cheese frosting so this was the birthday cake. Continue reading
Rocky road brownie tart birthday cake
27 Jan
It was my niece’s birthday and she had flown down from her home near the Queensland border to catch up with her fav cousins (misses 7 and 9) and her nana. Naturally a cake was in order but the biggest decision of the moment was the nature of the cake. As the niece is a self-confessed a sweet tooth (her mum made her a cake that used 2 kilos of icing sugar!) a chocolate cake was in order but that didn’t really help – have you SEEN how many recipes for chocolate cake lurk on the web?
The idea of rocky road crept into my mind… Continue reading
Margarita cake with tequila
15 Sep
Recently, well actually several months ago, my lovely friend Jane had a birthday. Jane had requested a Tim Tam cake [for my non-Aussie friends, Tim Tams are our national treasure chocolate biscuit] but I spied a recipe in my beloved book ‘Lily Vanilli’s Sweet Tooth’ that I knew she would love. And boy, was I right.
In the book it is referred to as margarita drizzle cake but I am calling it simply margarita cake. Or, as many of my work friends commented after sampling it, the best cake I’ve ever made. Or, tequila cake with lime, if we want to keep things simple. All are true. Trust me on this – you NEED to have this cake in your life. Continue reading
Flourless chocolate hazelnut cake (gluten-free) and a weekend away in Crookwell NSW.
15 Aug
How I love a country getaway! When an escape to the country is also a girl’s weekend away it is close to perfection. Continue reading
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