Category: Sweet bakes

Salted Caramel Cupcakes

I enjoy eating cupcakes (apart from overly sweet buttercream) but I’m not very good at making them, the best ones I’ve made were my Red Wine Cupcakes and Guinness Cupcakes these were chocolate based surprisingly and turned out well, but my attempts of normal vanilla cupcakes haven’t gone down so well :s. I…

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Baked Chocolate Orange Doughnuts

I recently brought a regular size doughnut pan and was so excited to try it out. I do owe a really mini doughnut pan but I found most recipes use regular sized pan. I’ve really got a taste for chocolate and orange baked goods and I thought this would be perfect to try on my first…

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Mini Baked Cinnamon Doughnuts

This is the first time I used this doughnut pan even though I have had it quite a while tut tut! I decided to give a basic doughnut mix a try, just simple but I knew it would be tasty. I really like the taste of cinnamon.  These mini doughnuts were amazing, light, fluffy…

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Panforte Squares

Panforte Squares are an italian Christmas fruit cake, originating from Siena Italy, it’s traditionally served after a meal with coffee or dessert wine. It’s filled with nuts, dried fruit and has the taste of Christmas. It’s sticky, rich, nutty and taste sooooo amazing and I love it. It’s really addictive.  It’s quite simple to make and…

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Pumpkin Cinnamon Strudle and ooozing chocolate molten loaf

The molten chocolate in this recipe definately did it for me. I couldn’t wait to make this loaf…actually it was mainly the chocolate molten I was most excited about! When I had seen the oozing thick chocolate coming from the cake I was in love. I had to make this cake.  We had…

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Brown buttered, Nutella Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

….Youuuu what???….yes it is a bit of a mouthful, these are aaaaamzing! I made these just in time for Halloween, Happy Halloween!. They are so yummy as they have Nutella in and as you know I love Nutella. I did find that these are what made them so much more amazing!!! I couldn’t…

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Decadent Chocolate Beetroot Cake

Ever since I’ve heard about Chocolate beetroot cake, which was a few years ago now, (I think I seen Hugh Whittingstall make it) I’ve wanted to make it. I do enjoy eating picked beetroot in salads, so yummy, it has the slight sweet, earthy and sharp taste to it. I did have my…

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The Signature Carrot Cake

For those of you who don’t know me, this is one cake I’m well known for. I’ve made it a number of times for a number of birthdays, street fairs, get togethers, competitions and probably other things I can’t remember. Out of all the cakes this one is the most special to me,…

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Courgette Cake

Courgette cake ehhh….yes you heard right, it has courgette in. Using vegetables in cakes are very on trend at the moment. I’ve seen a lot of recipes for courgette cake for a while so it isn’t something new. It was actually my dad who gave me the push to make this cake, which…

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Deep and Dark Black Forest Cheesecake

As for decadent, rich, awesome desserts go, this one is definitely on the top of my list. I thoroughly enjoyed eating this dessert, it was rich, fruity and tart and the vanilla cream helped compliment the flavours.  This dessert is great for a dinner parties and although it looks hard to create it was…

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