Touché Cakes: April 2015

Sunday 12 April 2015

Happy 70th Birthday Ian

Ian loves his wife, family, sport, good wine and friendship. I am his adopted daughter (not literally) after he and Colleen moved in next door and we lived next to each other for about 18 years. I have watched their 7 (blended family) kids grow up and the grandkids come along. We went to Napier to help Ian celebrate his birthday on Saturday April 11th and it was a lovely day. We spent more time on the road then we actually spent in Napier, but it was worth every minute. Ian's cake is chocolate with caramel butter-cream (recipe in the previous post). Two of the young grandsons ate 'granddad' and poked out blue tongues.

Tuesday 7 April 2015

I Dream of Genie

Chocolate cake with caramel buttercream - oh my, if you want something a little different and super yummy, then this is the one. 500gms butter whipped to nearly white, add 1kg of icing sugar, mix to combine and and half a tin of Caramelised condensed milk - try not to scoff it all at once!

Thomas, Thomas and more Thomas

Four Thomas themed cakes in two weeks. I am all Thomased out!. Chocolate cakes with buttercream or fondant or a combination of both - yum

Maisy for Jack

My little grandson loves Maisy - I had no choice.This was fun to make.

Edmonds Cook Book circa 1931

Catch your turkey and rabbits for these recipes....from my dearly loved Grandmother, this book was a gift to her on her 21st Birthday in 1931.

Cream Horns - a blast from the past

I think these are doing a renaissance - several of my friends have been making them. I roll the ready made pastry a bit thinner then roll it onto the moulds. I brush with egg white wash then roll in granulated sugar, put a blob of raspberry jam in the bottom them fill with chantilly cream.