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! #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!

Sunday is Cake Day! #8

Holarey!

This week I decided to go back to the basics and make a simple sponge with a delicious chocolate buttercream filling and chocolate ganache as frosting. Not only it came out visibly nice, but it came out completely delicious! In fact it was, in my opinion and Habibi's, probably the best cake I've ever baked.

New this week was the 2 tiers cake which I decided to try as I needed to make some extra cake after being threatened by my colleagues that I would receive several kinds of reprisals - ok, they just asked me for some cake around 2,000 times since I started baking.

The decoration was simple with white royal icing (which I still can't pipe properly!!!!) and some light beige roses and petals.

Everything said, let's go for the recipe followed by the pictures!

Remember: I'm not a professional baker or cake decorator; also I usually use approximated measures of the ingredients - I just adjust them as I go and it always comes good anyway.