Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
I need very little excuse to get over excited about cakes, but when I was invited to a chocolate party last weekend…Well, I could hardly control myself. In fact, I think I did very well just to stick to one type of cupcake and one big cake.
These are hot chocolate cupcakes. Chocolate Chili sponge with a hint of cinnamon frosted with dark chocolate buttercream and chocolate coated marshmallows. I personally can’t resist a chocolaty marshmallow.
And this is a 4-layer white chocolate cake decorated with three flavours of macaron, hand made chocolates, hand piped chocolate cupcakes and at least three types of edible glitter. I’m sorry there aren’t any better pictures of this one. Oh well, just means I’ll have to make another!
Tags: cake, chili, chocolate, cinnamon, cupcake, dark, decoration, edinburgh, glitter, hand made, handmade, hot, macaron, marshmallow, misti, piped, vanilla, white chocolate
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
My ‘Signature Cakes’ are 4-layer cakes in any flavour, however I have been working on a few flavour combinations designed just for this size of cake to make the most of their striking stripy interiors. I think taller cakes have an even greater celebratory feel to them and love the way they photograph. In fact, as models, they almost rival the majestic lemon meringue cupcake!
Anyway, here are the three new flavours. From left to right:
Chocolate Orange - Alternating layers of chocolate and orange sponge sandwiched with a rich ganache made with dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids), Scottish cream and a dash of cointreau.
Blueberry Lemon – Moist blueberry sponge filled with whipped cream buttercream icing and homemade lemon curd.
Green Tea and Dark Chocolate – Japanese Matcha Green Tea cake layered with dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids) buttercream. My personal favourite!
Thanks again to Holli for the pictures!
Tags: birthday, blueberry, cake, chocolate, cupcake, dark, edinburgh, embossed, green tea, lemon, misti, orange
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Sunday, July 4th, 2010
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.
Tags: beetroot, cake, chocolate, cupcake, dark, edinburgh, ginger, organic
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