Black Forest Inspired Fudge Cake

I promised a friend a cake a LONG time ago, and I finally came up with my end of the deal. There is A LOT of love put into this cake, I'm not normally one to make full size cakes as I've had some bad experiences, but this one turned out okay! There are two layers to the cake, made with my special sour cream chocolate fudge cake recipe. I then brushed the cakes with a sour cherry syrup reduction that I made. I then coated both layers of cake with a dark chocolate ganache and waited for them to dry. To assemble the cake, I topped a layer with lots of whipped cream and cherries. I dusted the layer with some dutch cocoa and put the other layer of cake on top. Cream was piped on the edge of the cake for decoration and topped with more cherries.

This cake took me AGES to make! I think I'll just stick to the cupcakes!! =)

P.s. I'm told it was absolutely delicious though!!

Pink Party

I was helping my friend Kylie make cupcakes for a charity event she was attending. She loves pink so we had a girly day making and decorating a bunch of these cupcakes. The cake is a basic vanilla cake, with strawberry flavoured pink batter marbled through it. The icing is a royal icing coloured pink and flavoured with strawberry essence. We finished them off with some shaved white chocolate. Simple, but yummy! Also, sorry for the backlog of posts, but I take these pictures and I forget to post them until I'm clearing out my camera!

Sandwich Style Miniatures.

I made these miniature cupcakes inspired by different sandwiches. Bizarre, but it just came to me and I had to try it.

So there are:

Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcakes, where the cake is vanilla, there is a strawberry jam filling and peanut butter buttercream.

Lemon Butter Cupcakes, where the cake is lemon, filled with a lemon curd and a lemon flavoured buttercream.

Fairy bread cupcake, where the cake is vanilla, topped with chocolate icing and hundreds and thousands.

Nutella Cupcake, the cake is vanilla, filled with nutella and topped with a nutella flavoured buttercream.

These would be perfect for a picnic, but I wrapped them up as a gift for a birthday.
Keen to try these again some time!! I think I'm onto a winner =)