Baby Cake

This week’s cake is a chocolate sponge layered with blackberry and raspberry compote buttercream with fresh chopped berries mixed in for added lushness. It was crumb-coated, covered in fondant then dotted with royal icing to give it surface texture and interest. The topping – sugared dandelion seed head (picked from my back garden, well away…

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Ganache

Movember is a big thing in Ireland, and UK, as well I think. It’s the month where the chaps grow a moustache for charity to help raise awareness of testicular and prostate cancer. I sponsored a couple of guys to have their legs waxed. There were two baking fund raisers – I made the chocolate…

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