Basic carrot cake recipe and hand piped roses
This is where it all started…
And ended…
Ok now for the basic carrot cake recipe I’d promised.
INGREDIENTS:
2cups flour
2cups carrots
1cup sugar
1cup dried fruit (raisins, sultanas etc)
3eggs
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1tsp baking powder
1tsp baking soda
2tbsp mixed spice
1tsp cinnamon
1tsp nutmeg
INSTRUCTIONS:
1) Mix the sugar, carrots & raisins together in a big bowl
2) Combine the eggs & oil & beat until just mixed. Pour into the bowl with the carrots
3) Sieve the flour spices,b.powder & b.soda together and mix into the bowl with the other ingredients
4) Bake at 180 deg. celsius for 45 min or until ready
A feast for your eyes and then some
It’s taken sometime to upload this pics but I finally got to do so today thanks to some work taking place in my kitchen.
This lime cake was for a 1st year birthday party for some very loyal customer’s son. Every small business needs such customers. They get all their occasion cakes for the extended family from B&B. Thank you people.
I was asked to make a black forest cake for a certain prayer group’s leader. I didn’t want to decorate it with the usual chocolate curls so I went with the whole dripping chocolate look. The customer loved the overall look and the cake too. Thanks K.
A black forest for a little girl’s birthday…
This decadent chocolate fudge cake was done for my hubby’s birthday. I especially loved doing the choc decor triangles.
I took part in The Cake Festival for the 1st time and that was quite a fete for me as I was battling it out with both professionals and novices who have been in the industry for quite some time. Even though I didn’t win in the dream wedding cake category nor in the signature cake category, I did learn a lot about the opportunities available and got valuable feedback from the many cake lovers in attendance. PS my cake is the one with fresh flowers. It was meant to be a small bouquet but a paper got stuck on the top tier and messed the fondant once removed so had to hide that with a whole bouquet!
A white forest birthday cake
That’s all folks. Watch out for the carrot cake recipe which I’ll be posting soon.
It’s a fruity filling… and topping
Fruits & veggies
The above cake is a strawberry shortcake with a strawberry filling. I used strawberries, grapes and a plant that’s in the parsley family to decorate. It was for a 1st birthday party and the customer was pleased and sent an SMS saying the cakes rocked;)
