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COST PRICE CAKES: Chocolate, Toffee and Victoria Sponge

Misti — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:25:21 +0000

Three cakes up for sale at cost-price left over from today’s photoshoot.

Thanks again to Holli for the wonderful pictures!

COST PRICE CAKE: Dark Chocolate Beetroot Cupcakes With Fiery Ginger Buttericing

Misti — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:00:20 +0000

These cupcakes were made using Montezuma’s Organic Very Dark (73%) chocolate, local organic beetroots and, as always, Scottish butter and eggs. The buttericing topping includes freshly juiced ginger and finely chopped preserved stem ginger as well as a splash of ginger syrup.
Two boxes of 6 available.

COST PRICE CAKE: Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

Misti — Sun, 16 May 2010 10:53:01 +0000

These are chocolate cupcakes with a rich peanut butter filling and chocolate ganache topping.

sold

COST PRICE CAKE: Embossed Cupcakes

Misti — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:22:22 +0000

Something I’ve been quite excited by recently is embossed icing. These are the first two designs that sprang to mind, but expect to see a lot more in the near future.
Orange Cupcakes with white embossed icing

Chocolate Cupcakes with red embossed icing

Thanks again to Holli for the photos.

Naturally Red Velvet Cake

Misti — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:00:42 +0000

Last year I was reading a lot about New York Red Velvet cupcakes and made a few investigative batches. The bright red colour looks fabulous as a contrast to the smooth white cream cheese frosting so when my sister brought sent me a message asking if I had wanted to make some cakes for her to try out her fancy new camera on, Red Velvet sprung to mind. I immediately decided on doing a gateaux rather than cupcakes, for the aesthetics, however, now that I’d gotten over my initial inquisitiveness, I just couldn ‘t bear to add that much food colouring to a sponge cake. It’s funny, but it seems totally harmless and fun in cupcakes, but so wrong in a gateaux. I’d read a few comments on other websites about people using (or wanting to use) beetroot to colour red velvet cakes, although I’d never actually read a recipe which accomplished it. This in mind I set about creating my own naturally red velvet cake. Nothing but beetroot was used to colour it, and I substituted the often sickly cream cheese frosting for my white chocolate buttercream and this is the result.

Not as red as its American cousin, but so moist and very tasty. Nobody had a bad word to say about this cake so, while I admit it is not as vibrant as the coloured cupcakes, I count it as a success.
Picture courtesy of Holli.

Apple Mini Kit-Kat

Misti — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:00:08 +0000

Despite looking exactly like a normal, unassuming kit-kat, this tastes and smells very strongly of apples…or an ester with strong appley characteristics. Perhaps the most baffling kit-kat experience yet!

Malteaser Cake

Misti — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:56:57 +0000

‘Nuff said, really.

COST PRICE CAKE: Chinese New Year Cupcakes

Misti — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:54:57 +0000

Each flavour is available as a box of 6. As usual, cost price cakes are sold on a first come, first served basis.

Vanilla cupcakes with sweet red bean paste filling and vanilla buttercream

Green tea and pomegranate cupcakes with white chocolate frosting

Sweet Potato Kit-Kat

Misti — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:15:13 +0000

The picture doesn’t really convey quite how yellow this Kit-Kat is. It’s very presence brightens up my desk. Taste-wise, it is an interesting experience. The overriding flavour is that of the wafer biscuit but there are creamy hints of sweet potato and another tangy flavour I can’t quite identify which prevents it from being too sickly. However, if I hadn’t seen the package, I’m not sure I would be able to guess what flavour it was. It put me more in mind of McVitie’s Gold biscuits than of sweet potatoes.

Brown Tea Mini Kit-Kat

Misti — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:05:02 +0000

I love tea. A lot. I’m ashamed to admit it but I really can’t get through a day without at least one cup of tea. However, I have never been a tea and biscuits sort of girl. Tea and cake, definitely, count me in, but biscuits never cross my mind while I’m waiting for the kettle to boil. That said, when I found a tea flavoured Kit-Kat, I had to try it. Upon tasting it, I am sad to say that I was disappointed. There was perhaps the faintest hint of bitter tea if you tried very very hard to taste it but otherwise it tasted exactly like a regular Kit Kat. Just as well I like regular Kit Kats then.
NOTE: Interestingly, I had a sip of water 10 minutes later and there was a faint after taste of tea.