Sunday is Cake Day! #12

He cuts a slice of cake and...

...tcha-ran,

SURPRISE!

This week I wanted to try something very special.

I saw this cake book with "surprises" inside. Basically you do a sandwich-like cake and work the layers in a way that when you cut a slice in the final cake, a specific design comes out of it.

Sunday is Cake Day! #11

Holarey!

Cupcakes, who doesn't love them?

This week I decided to try one of my favourite flavours - coconut. And which one goes better with fresh coconut? Chocolate.
So instead of going for the usual combination of chocolate sponge with coconut frosting, I went for the opposite: fresh and sweet coconut sponge, with that amazing chocolate cream on top, decorated with tiny white & pink sugar flowers.

I LOVE fresh coconut flavour, and it's definitely something to try more often.

Have a look at the pictures of these simple, yet delicious cupcakes.

Sunday is Cake Day! #10 - the compilation

Hello little fellows!

Today is the 10th week of Sunday is Cake Day! Every week there's a new cake.
So for this tenth edition of this TAG I thought it would be nice to make a compilation of the last 9 weeks. It's nice to see all the work I've been doing just for fun.

I'm a complete amateur in this baking world. 10 weeks ago I baked and decorated my very first cake. The passion invaded my soul and I started trying this and trying that, learning and developing my skills.
Now I love it and it's imperative to do it once in a while.

Well, I hope you enjoy this and please let me know what you think by commenting bellow.

Sunday is Cake Day! #9

Mnhum mnham everyone!

This week I baked a very special cake as it was Habibi's 23rd birthday on the 22nd of April.
He didn't want to celebrate, but I forced convinced him to do so.

I baked this amazing chocolate cake (remember my first cake? Yap, the same recipe) and made the usual buttercream, with a tiny difference - I turned it completely white without losing the good flavour. The secret? Adding a tiny bit of purple food colouring to it as purple and yellow are complementary colours. The purple will cut the effect of the yellow, making it whiter. Don't expect pure white, expect the whiter you can get in this case.

As he said he liked grey, I tried to decorate it in a neutral way, adding some grey details to it.
Also I had only 2 days (3 hours per day, after work) to make this, so 1st day to bake and 2nd day for the decoration.

Follow with the pictures bellow and I'll see you next Sunday!

Cake shop - my new job is a torture!!

So one of the reasons why I've been away for the last days is that I started working in a cake shop. Well, it's actually a party shop but I work in the cake section.

It has everything you might dream of if you like baking. Every kind of tools, ingredients, decorations... it's a different world! And this world has completely swallowed me. I pass all my day dreaming about baking - I never baked by myself but I used to help my mother, is that a good start?