Having fun baking and decorating cakes- come along for the ride.
Chocolate Madeira cake recipe One of the most popular posts here on Cakes Bakes and Cookies is my mum’s Madeira Cake recipe so it should come as no surprise that I have been asked so many times for the ingredients needed to make a chocolate Madeira cake. After all it does make a superb wedding …
6 to 12″ in 60 seconds: Madeira cake ingredients I have to say that I have been bowled over by how many questions I have been asked about Madeira cake since I started this blog. I mean if you check out my first post on it there are over 200 comments! So I shouldn’t have …
Sometimes I get a cake in my head and I just can’t stop thinking about it. Flapjacks have been one of those cakes recently. Want to know why? It’s a silly story really! A few months ago Tim accidentally picked up some Golden syrup flavoured Weetabix by mistake. I think they were a trial thing. …
I love Madeira cake. I mean REALLY love it. It’s part of my past. So when I was asked recently “How do you convert your Madeira cake recipe into a chocolate cake?” I thought it would be a great recipe to share with you all. I also still had the Morello Cherry and William Pear …
Last week I made this really big (and really heavy) wedding cake. I have been asked a few times now how I cover cakes with sugarpaste and get it looking so smooth, so, I took some snaps as I went. My poor camera is now covered in icing sugar! I started with each cake covered …
Rich, moist, and totally delicious. Oh my WORD! If I tell you that Mr MT came back time and time again for this cake you would understand why I’m saying this cake is deeelish! Without a doubt it’s the very best vegan chocolate cake I have ever made. But it was a total accident. The …
