Evalyne's First Birthday Cake - Teddy Bears Picnic

For my beautiful baby god-daughters first birthday I made a teddy bears picnic cake.

Chocolate cake, iced with buttercream and decorated with fondant.






Rachel

Whole Orange Cake

I had an over abundance of oranges this week, so went hunting for a recipe to use them up. This is what the wonderful google machine found for me:

2 Large Oranges
250g (9oz) Ground Almonds
25g (9oz) Caster Sugar
6 Large Eggs
1tsp Baking Powder

Pre-heat over to Gas Mark 5, and grease a 20cm cake tin.

Cover the oranges with water and bring to the boil, then simmer for 1 hour. Then remove and leave to cool.

Chop into piece, removing all of the pips and puree in a food processor. Blend in the eggs and then add the dry ingredients, transfer into the tin and cook for 45mins-1 hour. Until golden on top.

I found that the inside of the cake was very moist, but very delicious. I topped the cake with a chocolate gnash, and everyone seemed to enjoy it a great deal.





Rachel

Bob's 50th Birthday Cake

50th Birthday cake for Bob, made with plain sponge, jam and buttercream. Decorated with hand coloured fondant, and piped royal icing letters. I had a few issues with the royal icing, but I think I am finally getting the hang of it, I definitely need to start trusting my instincts on when its at the right consistency. All in all it turned out alright though.

Over view of cake.

Close up on edge detailing.

Close up of 'H' and edge decoration.

Rachel x