Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bake off, Baking, brownie tree, Brownies, chocolate, christmas baking, Christmas cake, Coca cola cake, Edible santa, willpower on December 10, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Successfully managed to not eat the cake on the walk in to work. Snaps for my willpower.
Here are a few of the cakes other people brought in. The first two are made by previous bake-off winners…yes, that is an edible Santa. I’m not feeling so confident about my chances right now.
These were just the cakes that had arrived by 10am, I will try to snap a few more later in the afternoon.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bake off, Baking, chocolate cake, Christmas cake, fudge cake, kit kat, Lindor on December 9, 2012| 2 Comments »
I volunteered to bake for a charity bake sale at work tomorrow so most of today was spent covered in chocolate & flour and eating most my ingredients. I decided to make a Kit Kat and Malteaser cake that I saw online a few months ago. As you would expect, this required a lot of tasty ingredients!
Usually when I bake a chocolate cake I just use the Betty Crocker cake mixes, but I figured that since this is a bake-off that this may be cheating! I had a look online and found a chocolate fudge cake recipe from the BBC website. When I mixed the ingredients I really thought that I had messed this up! The batter was super watery and runny. Luckily it turned out ok!
Next I covered it in fudge icing from Betty Crocker and then it was time start the decorating!
I stuck KitKat bars around the outside of the cake, using the fudge icing as a glue to stick them to the cake. Here is a snap at the halfway point!
Once these were in place I poured Malteasers on top of the cake. After this I tied a ribbon around the cake to keep the bars in place and added a few Lindor sweets to match the ribbon! Et voila!!
Snap My Food 