I decided to have a go at some recipe development this weekend and put my favourite dessert, lemon roulade, into cake form. Three deliciously light lemon sponges filled with lemon buttercream, lemon curd and crushed meringue….and there was born lemon roulade cake. I have a bit of a reputation for my lemon roulade as you may […]
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Peanut butter and salted caramel cake

Three of my favourite things in the world all together at last; Peanut butter, salted caramel and CAKE! But I cannot take the credit for this marvellous threesome, this recipe is from Cakeography. Cakeography is a beautiful book recently written and published by my lovely and gorgeous friend Lucy Charles. She describes the book as […]
Gingerbread layer cake with salted caramel buttercream

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful festive break and thoroughly stuffed yourself with mince pies, ham, cold turkey and cheese – I know I did! Oh wait … I forgot one thing, delicious gingerbread cake of course. Three layers of deliciously moist gingerbread cake smothered with salted caramel buttercream, topped with […]
Salted caramel cupcakes with a salted caramel buttercream

As some of you may know I am obsessed with everything salted caramel but I have never made it myself, so I decided I would give it a go! I love the Cupcake Jemma Youtube channel and she made some delicious cupcakes on her site so I decided to use her recipe for both the […]
Review: Andrew James piping set

I recently asked my Twitter family to recommend a beginners piping set as I don’t have one and I am looking to ‘up my icing game’. The lovely people at Andrew James then sent me a set to review which was very exciting!! I decided to make some salted caramel cupcakes to test my new set. […]
Lemon ombre babyshower cake

My oldest and dearest friend Beth had her baby shower a few weeks ago and I promised to bring a cake along. She loves lemon drizzle so I decided on a three tier lemon ombre babyshower cake with home made lemon curd and butter cream filing. The expectant parents don’t know if they are having a […]