Really quick and easy celebration cake idea! July #2!

Hey everyone!

Today I'm sharing with you a really quick and easy way of decorating a cake for a special occasion :)

There has been so many times when it is people birthdays and I get really excited about making them a birthday cake, except I always seem to be rushed off my feet doing other things! - (working, studying)

So basically all you need for this idea is to use your most favourite cake recipe! eg: sponge cake, chocolate cake, vanilla cake. Just whatever you feel like :)

My favourite quick go to cake is:

Chocolate mud cake (you only need one bowl!)

2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 cup sour cream or yoghurt
3/4 cup cocoa
200g soft butter
2 tsps baking soda
1 1/2 tsps vanilla
1/4 tsp salt
3 cups self raising flour
1 cup boiling strong coffee

Put all ingredients in a mixing bowl and beat for 1 minute!

cook for 1 hour at 160 degrees celcius

Easy as that!!

now for the decorating!

I cut the cake in half and put cream and jam in the middle (an easy classic)

spread cream on the outside of the cake and this one has chocolate flakes on the sides and chopped nuts on the top :)
I have piped cream around the edges make chocolate heart decorations to finish it off.

If you have any question about this idea or want more ideas, feel free to comment below :)

Do you have any ideas you would like to share?

Brit :)

Dessert Competition!

Hey everyone!

Incase you didn't know, I'm a full time cookery student. This year I decided to enter in a competition like I did last year!

I entered the following categories:

-Chocolate Fantasty
-Decorated Gateaux
 

Chocolate Fantasy:
In this class the criteria was that it had to be atleast 50% chocolate.

I gave my dessert a theme of:
The 3 Elements : Earth, Air and Fire
Earth: Pistachio Macaroon filled with white chocolate rested on a pistachio crumble

Air: White Chocolate Panna Cotta with homemade lemon jelly

Fire: Dark Chocolate hazelnut tart

Looking at my dessert now, I regret my portion sizes - especially for the tart! But I'm learning from my mistakes :)

Decorated Gateaux

This had to be a decorated cake that had more than one layer

My layers were:
Base: Cocoa crumb base
Dark chocolate Hazelnut ganash
 Moist Chocolate Dream cake
Berry bavarois

These pictures were taken at about 1am in the morning when I had just finished decorating the cake - sorry for the bad lighting!

Let me know what you think! Just leave a comment :)

Brit :)

First Chocolate Fantasy Competition.

This was actually last year, but I thought I'd Share some pictures of my practice desserts.

Please note I had no training before this and no professional equipment or anything.

If you have any comments or tip feel free to comment! :)