Ferrero rocher

Hiya guys, so this is a cake i made for my grandparents wedding anniversary. Its a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and apricot jam between the two layers. There are chocolate crunch sprinkles along the side and a ferrero rocher per slice.

Ingredients:

500g butter

500g sugar

500g self raising flour

10 eggs

3-4 tsp vanilla essence 

3 tbsp water 

Decoration:

Ferrero rocher

A few tbsp of apricot jam

Buttercream:

750g icing sugar

375g butter 

2-3 tsp vanulla essence 

Method:

1.preheat the oven the 180 degrees and line a large roasting tin with butter/ greaseproof paper/ baking spray 

2. Cream the butter and sugar together and then add the eggs vanilla and water

3. Fold in the flour until light and fluffy

4. Pour the mixture in the roasting tin and bake at 165-170 degrees for 35-40 minutes

5. Leave to cool and make the buttercream (check my other pos on how to make buttercream)

6. If the cake is burnt on the sides or on top cut it off. Also cut the cake in half horizontally to make two layers

7. Then you need to spread the apricot jam for in between the cake and spread buttercream around the cake, this can be messy as you are going to cover the sides with the sprinkles and the top with ferrero rochers 

8. Make faint lines with a knit so you make a small section  of cake per person

9. Now comes the fun part, throw the sprinkles on to the side. Make sure your hand is close to the cake when you throw the sprinkles and also have a tray under the cake so it catches any spare sprinkles

10. Lastly, place a ferrero rocher on each section of cake  

I hope that this post helped check out my other posts for some more interesting ideas for your own cakes.

Victoria sponge

Hi guys, so for this cake i had to make it for my catering afternoon tea exam and i think my family got a bit tired of eating cake for the past few weeks before my exam as i had to practise it so many time so i would get it perfect for my exam. Well it all payed off as i got an A* :D So im guessing you want to know how to make it, so here you go:

Ingredients:

300g butter 

300g caster sugar

300g self raising flour 

6 eggs 

1-2 tsp vanilla essence

330ml of double cream

1-2 boxes of big fresh strawberries

2-3 tsp icing sugar for dusting

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and then line two 7"

 tins with butter/ greaseproof paper/ baking spray

2. Cream the butter and sugar together and then add the eggs and vanilla essence

3. Fold in the flour and mix the mixture together until fluffy

4. Separate the mixture into the two tins and then place in the oven putting the temperature down to 165- 175 degrees

5. After 20 minutes the cake should be done take  it out and let it cool down 

6. Whilst its cooling down whip the double cream until its light also chop the strawberries into half 

7. Once the cakes have cooled down spread the whipped cream on the cake ad place half a strawberry on like the picture 

8. Place the other cake on top and dust with icing sugar and place any remainder strawberries on the top o the cake 

9. Present the cake on a nice dish if serving for an afternoon tea or a party.Thank you for reading have a looks at some of my other posts. 

red nose day cupcakes

hey guys i know this is a bit of a random post but i was looking through some pictures and found these cupcakes. My form at school had decided we should sell some cupcakes for red nose day and i was asked to make them so this is what they looked like:

there was about 7 batches of these 6 cupcakes

ingredients:
600 g self raising flour
600 g caster sugar
600 g butter
12 eggs
2-3 tsp of vanilla essence


decorations:
500g butter
1kg icing sugar
1 kg white regal icing
red gel colouring

Method:

1. preheat your oven to 170⁰c  and line the cupcake tin with cupcake cases
2. cream the butter and sugar together until it feels smooth
3. crack the eggs one by one and add to the mixture. Mix it for a bit and add the vanilla essence and water
4. add in the flour. Once it has been mixed till its light and fluff spoon the mixture evenly between the cupcake cases
5. put the cupcakes in the oven for around about 20-25 mins until they have risen well and look golden
6. leave the cupcakes to cool on a cooling rack
7. make the buttercream using the recipe i have put up on my blog for your cupcakes and if you want, colour it with GEL colours. If you use liquid food colouring u will have to use more for a darker shade
8. colour the regal icing with the red Gel colouring and roll out and use round cookie cutter that is either smaller or the same size as the cupcake
9. fill a piping beg which has a rose nozzle with buttercream and pipe a rose. if you dont know how to watch the first 30 seconds of this video, this is what i watched when i was learning how to do it:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnfJDja_OMQ
10. place a red disc on each cupcake 
11. fill another piping bag which has a writing nozzle in it and write whatever you want to write on the discs 

i hope this has helped you, enjoy!!

another cake for any occasion

hi guys i made this cake for my my mums birthday, but this cake could be made for any occasions:

Ingredients for cake:
16 ounces self raising flour
16 ounces butter
16 ounces caster sugar
8 eggs
1-2 tsp vanilla essence
a few drops of water

decorations:
1.5kg of white regal icing
whatever gel colours you want
chocolate chips
flower cutter
star cutter

Method:

1. preheat your oven to 170⁰c  and line the tin/mould with grease proof paper or butter or even the 1 calorie spray
2. cream the butter and sugar together until it feels smooth
3. crack the eggs one by one and add to the mixture. Mix it for a bit and add the vanilla essence and water
4. add in the flour. Once it has been mixed till its light and fluff pour the mixture evenly between the two tins/moulds 
5. put the cakes in the oven for around about 20-25 mins until they have risen well and look golden
6. leave the cakes to cool and then cut around the cake and also trim the top of the cake
7. make the buttercream using the recipe i have put up on my blog for your cake and if you want colour it with GEL colours. If you use liquid food colouring u will have to use more for a darker shade
8. spread a thin layer on the cake all around, place the cake on a cake board
9. colour 1kg of the regal icing a light, pale colour. colour the rest 2-3 different colours
10. roll the pale colour regal icing so it covers the cake if it doesnt work check out my spiderman cake post where i tell you another way of putting regal icing on
11. roll out the different colours and cut about 30 flowers and stars from each colour and scatter them on the cake, it doesnt matter if they over lap. if needed spread a little buttercream on the bottom of the flower
12. place a chocolate chip or star in the middle of a flower, do this to most of the flowers but not all of them

i hope this helped and enjoy

p.s check out my other posts if you have time

princess belle cake

hey so it was my baby brother and sisters birthday in February and i took pictures of their cake that i made and have just looked through all my cake pictures and found them so here is my baby sisters princess cake:

excuse the silly face, she was excited!!

ingredients:

6 ounces of self raising flour

16 ounces of butter

16 ounces of caster sugar

8 large eggs

2 tsp of vanilla essence

a tsp of baking powder

2 tbsp of water

6-7 tbsp of cocoa powder(if you want but you need to take 6-7 tbsp of flour out)

decoration:

500g of icing sugar

250g butter

2 tbsp of vanilla essence

yellow gel colours

yellow edible glitter

1kg pack of white regal icing

princess belle cake topper 

method:

1.preheat your oven to 190°c and line your tin/mould with grease proof paper or butter or even the 1 calorie butter spray(i use this for my cakes and the cakes pop out after a couple of minutes)

2. mix the butter and sugar together until it feels smooth

3 one by one crack the eggs and add them into the mixture. Mix it for a couple of minutes during this add your water and vanilla essence

4. after add in the flour baking powder and cocoa powder (if you want) mix it until it is light and fluffy

5. after it has been well mixed together and is light and fluffy you can start pouring the mixture into the tins/moulds make sure they are leveled out

6. put the cakes in for around 20-25 mins you should be able to put a knife /skewer through the middles of the cakes when you take the knife/skewer out they should be clean

7. leave the cakes to cool for around an hour after that cut a tall dome shape

8. whilst the cake cools make the buttercream using the recipe that i have put up in one of my other posts

9. spread a thin layer of buttercream all over the cake and put the cake in a cool room or the fridge

10. colour the regal icing with the yellow GEL colour and roll it out big enough to cover the cake

11. leave a small hole at the top of the cake to put the topper in and decorate around the topper to blend it in with the cake

12. with the edible glitter use a new soft paint brush and brush some of it on all over the cake to give it a bit of a sparkle, dont wash the brush after it has been used just clean it with tissue

i hope this helps and enjoy!!

spiderman cake

hey so it was my baby brother and sisters birthday in February and i took pictures of their cake that i made and have just looked through all my cake pictures and found them so here is my baby brothers a spiderman cake:

the black things with yellow dots are spiders and i didnt actually make the spiderman we used my brothers toy

ingredients:

6 ounces of self raising flour

16 ounces of butter

16 ounces of caster sugar

8 large eggs

2 tsp of vanilla essence

a tsp of baking powder

2 tbsp of water

6-7 tbsp of cocoa powder(if you want but you need to take 6-7 tbsp of flour out)

decoration:

500g of icing sugar

250g butter

2 tbsp of vanilla essence

black and blue gel colours

1.5kg pack of white regal icing 

method:

1.preheat your oven to 190°c and line your tin/mould with grease proof paper or butter or even the 1 calorie butter spray(i use this for my cakes and the cakes pop out after a couple of minutes)

2. mix the butter and sugar together until it feels smooth

3 one by one crack the eggs and add them into the mixture. Mix it for a couple of minutes during this add your water and vanilla essence

4. after add in the flour baking powder and cocoa powder (if you want) mix it until it is light and fluffy

5. after it has been well mixed together and is light and fluffy you can start pouring the mixture into the tins/moulds make sure they are leveled out

6. put the cakes in for around 20-25 mins you should be able to put a knife /skewer through the middles of the cakes when you take the knife/skewer out they should be clean

7. leave the cakes to cool for around an hour after that cut around the edges and the top of the cakes equally

8. whilst the cake cools make the buttercream using the recipe that i have put up in one of my other posts

9. spread a thin layer of buttercream all over the cake and put the cake in a cool room or the fridge

10. next colour 1kg of your regal icing blue with GEL colours and roll out so its big enough to cover all of your cake if it rips take the regal icing off and do it in separate parts. Cut a long strip that goes around the sides of the cake and then cut some of the regal icing big enough to cover the top of the cake

11. bring the cake back and place the regal icing on and the colour some of the left over white regal icing black using GEL colours

12. with a small amount of the black regal icing roll it up into a ball and then use a small amount and roll it into a long thin sausage and cut into 8 equal parts to make them into spiders legs attach the legs to the regal icing ball which is the body and then use some of the buttercream to pipe on eyes using a writing nozzle. make as many as you want for your cake. Leave the spiders in a coll room to harden

13. colour some of the left over buttercream black to pipe the spiderwebs. Fill a piping back with the black buttercream and split the cake into 8 equal pieces by piping the black lines. Start on one of the lines and pipe a curved line to one of the 7 other lines.(this may sound confusing but if you look at the picture of the cake it might help you.

14. continue this all around the cake and once done find a spiderman toy not too big and spread a small amount of buttercream at the bottom and then place the spiderman in the centre of the cake and scatter the spiders ,that you made ,on the cake.

valentines cake

hey guys i was just looking through some pictures of cakes I've made from before and i remembered a valentines cake my dad asked me to make for my mum. this cake doesn't need to be made for valentines day you could make it for any occasion. This looks like a valentines cake because its a love heart.

Ingredients for cake:
16 ounces self raising flour
16 ounces butter
16 ounces caster sugar
8 eggs
1-2 tsp vanilla essence
a few drops of water

Method:

1. preheat your oven to 170⁰c  and line the tin/mould with grease proof paper or butter or even the 1 calorie spray
2. cream the butter and sugar together until it feels smooth
3. crack the eggs one by one and add to the mixture. Mix it for a bit and add the vanilla essence and water
4. add in the flour. Once it has been mixed till its light and fluff pour the mixture evenly between the two tins/moulds 
5. put the cakes in the oven for around about 20-25 mins until they have risen well and look golden
6. leave the cakes to cool and then cut the shape of the cake that you want also trim the top of the cake
7. make the buttercream using the recipe i have put up on my blog for your cake and if you want colour it with GEL colours. If you use liquid food colouring u will have to use more for a darker shade
8. spread a thin layer on the cake all around, place the cake on a cake board
9. fill a piping bag with a rose nozzle inside full of buttercream with whatever colour you want it can be the same as the thin layer or the different.
10. when u get to the stage of piping the roses watch the first 30 seconds of this video as this is what i watched when i was learning how to pipe the roses   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnfJDja_OMQ
11. you can continue to to do swirls all around the cake but you can leave it like what i did and stick shapes on made out of gumpaste

i hope this help and enjoy!!