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Category: Cakes

  • Wedding Cake

    Smitten Kitchen’s wedding cake project was an invaluable aid when I was planning and executing my brother’s wedding cake earlier this year. I had never made a tiered cake before, and Smitten Kitchen was a great source of information for recipes and construction tips. I used two of the recipes from Smitten Kitchen – the…

  • Banana bread with dates

    When I cut into this banana bread, still warm and steaming from the oven, and had my first exploratory taste, I decided that this could possibly be the best banana bread I’ve ever made. Some banana breads are too dry, some are too oily, but this banana bread was just, absolutely right. It’s essentially Nigella’s…

  • Mini Raspberry Cheesecakes

    I left it way too late in the day to photograph these little cheesecakes (I was too busy eating them), and as a result neither of these photos are really in focus – hence the small size. I had my zoom lens on the camera, and took the cake out to the back steps so…

  • Lemon & Chocolate Loaf Cake

    Man, I love this cake. It’s so lovely and light and moist and generally the bomb – also I think you could substitute nuts or cranberries or… other things for the chocolate and you would get a completely different cake-vibe. Man. How articulate. Recipe is from an old Women’s Weekly cookbook. ingredients: 125g butter 1…

  • Pink Birthday Cake

    For someone who likes both chocolate cake and the colour pink – a chocolate birthday cake with pink icing and pink cream. I used my usual birthday cake recipe of chocolate fudge cake, and then made the pink icing. for the icing: 125 g butter 2 1/2 cups icing sugar 2 tablespoons hot water pink…

  • Quadruple Chocolate Loaf Cake

    This is another wonderful Nigella Lawson chocolate cake recipe – this one’s from the “Chocolate Cake Hall of Fame” chapter in Feast. It’s a dense, yet surprisingly light, loaf cake – not too light, however, and it goes wonderfully with cream. It’s a sweet chocolate cake, and you could make it sweeter by using milk,…

  • Gateau Lawrence

    This flourless chocolate cake is from a recipe book by Joanne Harris called French Kitchen, which helpfully includes an entire chapter on chocolate, including the chilli hot chocolate referred to in Chocolat. It’s extremely dense and heavy, a sticky feast of a cake, and as you can see from the above picture, very soft. The…

  • Chocolate Guinness Cake

    This is a Nigella Lawson recipe, from Feast. I was a bit hesitant about it – I don’t like beer, and I think Guinness is quite revolting. And beer and chocolate just sounds wrong. But the boyfriend often has Guinness in the fridge, so I stole one to try this cake. (It was the last…

  • Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake

    This is a Nigella Lawson recipe from How To Be a Domestic Goddess, and I’ve been a little hesitant about trying it, because it looks so moist and sticky, and as Nigella and I have vastly different ovens, I worried about being able to tell if it was cooked. However, a craving for chocolate cake…

  • Chocolate Fudge Cake

    This chocolate cake recipe is my basic, birthday cake recipe that I generally use. It’s simple and easy, and despite using cocoa powder rather than melted chocolate, it really is delicious fudgy. I made a chocolate ganache for the first time to go with it, and while it made the cake very darkly chocolatey, I…