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I usually need to be in the mood, however I love making my daughter’s birthday cakes. I made one a 3 years ago that 3 days to make. It was a work of art and love! It was a massive fairy castle, with hand piped coloured chocolate vines, flowers, roof tiles and windows all over it. I also made heaps of marshmallow mushrooms too. It was over 40cm tall and the base was cooked in a large lasagna dish. Day 1 colour melted chocolate and make vines, tiles and flowers. Day 2 Bake cakes and assemble. Day 3 Ice and decorate the cake.

WOW!!!! That is very, very cool!! Its look like you put mountains of effort into it! I love the little marshmallow mushrooms! I bet you didn’t want to cut it after all that!

GeorgeBee - 11 February 2008 02:05 PM

What did you have in your cookies?

Choc chips and peanut butter! Mmm I want to make some more now

Fab cake Pinkbubble btw. The marshmallow toadstolls look great

It was difficult to cut it all up,(It fed over 30, with more than half left!) but everyone enjoyed it. I had numerous requests for orders, but I gently declined as I would need to charge appropriately for my time. The ingredients alone cost me almost AU$50. Unfortunately the photos don’t do justice to the cake. The colours were much nicer,purple a& pink, and by using margarine instead of butter for the icing it gave it a metallic sheen.

That looks really good and yummy!!
I have just made a carrot cake!! it wont last long though, thought i might make a banana loaf later in the week too.
thanks Georgebee look forward to seeing the recipe and trying it out!!

My absolute fav cake is carrot cake, especially with the icing on top! Oooh I want some now! You guys are making me feel hungry now!

Mmmmm carrot cake - one of my favs too! And choccie chip and peanut butter cookies sounds goooood!

Ok pink puppy here goes…

You need:

175g/6oz butter, softened
175g/6oz caster sugar
3 eggs, beaten
250g/9oz self-raising flour
50g/2oz poppy seeds
grated rnd of 2 oranges
grated rind of 2 lemons
4 rounded tbsp natural yoghurt

And for the topping:
250g tub mascarpone
grated rind & juice of 1 small orange
3 tbsp lemon or orange curd
grated rind of 1 lemon

1. Preheat oven to 150c/Gas 2/fan oven 130c. Butter and line the base of a deep 20cm/8in round cake tin. Using a wooden spoon beat together everything bar what you need for the topping until smooth.

2. Spread mixture in tin and bake for 45-50 minutes until just firm. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then turn out and cool on a wire rack. Remove paper

3. Meanwhile mix the mascapone with enough orange juice to make its spreadable. Lightly swirl in the curd to give a marbled effect. Roughly spread over the top and sides of the cake and scatter the lemon and orange rind over the top!!

Voila!

Enjoy! I’m sure you will its delish! But make it when your fridge isn’t too full as it takes up a lot of room!

Oooh carrot cake! Mmmm. Might have to try that.

I’d give a recipe for my cookies but I kind of make it up Basically I just substitue about half of the butter for peanut butter.

Cool I shall have to try them! Crunchy or smooth lol?

I can’t wait for summer as I have a recipe for Tequila Sunrise Sobert - sounds mouthwatering!!!

GeorgeBee - 11 February 2008 11:30 PM

Cool I shall have to try them! Crunchy or smooth lol?

I use crunchy because I don’t like smooth but I guess either would work, hehe.

Thanks, I will get making that!!

Let me know how you get on pinkpuppy! And it may or may not need longer in the oven, mine was in there about an hour and a half depite what the recipe says but I do suspect that the fans aren’t working properly in the oven

Yep I am a avid Mrs Beeton fan. But I am not talking about food I am trying to slim. But if I were talking about food I’d recommend her coconut cake cooked in a loaf tin only using egg whites and sifting everything three times to make it light airy and fluffy

I love to bake and I even make sure that some of my recipes are for diabetics as my mom is one and I live around them also. So I have gotten good at making sugar-free desserts.I use splenda in everything I use when making them. But if I am making a something for that isn’t sugar-free then i use regular sugar.  My family even has me make the homemade bread for the holiday, but I don’t have bread machine as I do this all by hand.

Ickle pickle that sounds good! Are Mrs Beetons books good then? I may have to invest in one!

I bet your house smells lovely over the holidays if you’re baking lots of bread, Monica!!!