Sunday is Cake Day! #6

Hello little gypsies!

My most recent cake adventure is here.
This time I wanted to try three different things: strawberry flavour, red colour and royal icing.
So it seemed logical: red velvet sponge with strawberry flavour, with white buttercream filling and white royal icing frosting. The decoration was made with pink buttercream.

This was a delicious experiment! Sweet strawberry flavour was definitely the main feature. The red velvet colour turned it into a piece of luxury. The white royal icing gave it the perfect finish.

Let me show you in pictures.

Help yourself with a slice while waiting for next Sunday :)

Dear Instagram - March '15

So March was the month in which I decided to open an Instagram account (here). Wasn't really sure about how much I would like it, but now I completely love it!

I decided to follow the steps of a few people and include here a summary of my Instagram activity, as it is completely related. Good ideas are to be shared, I've always heard. Nothing wrong about it, and definitely no bad intentions!

If you're not following me through Instagram, join me here.

Here's my last month in pictures.

Sunday is Cake Day! #5

Oh oh oh hello there!

In this 5th edition of Sunday is Cake Day I decided to do something Easter inspired.
I thought about the colours (pink, yellow and blue) and about the patterns usually present in chocolate eggs,  so typical from Easter season.

So I decided to spread these three main colours in different layers of a butter sponge recipe, separated by a nice layer of always-amazing buttercream. For the icing and decoration I thought a white and straight look would be good to contrast with the coloured layers so I gave sugarpaste/rolling icing a try. With some royal icing I did the patterns.  Finished by adding a bit of gold to the them.

My make-up routine

As a modern woman living in London, I was forced to surrender to the magic of make-up.

I'm a very practical person who loves arts and sports, so I didn't really use it before I move here. Now I can't go outside without some foundation.

However I opt for keeping it simple.

Here's my routine:

Sunday is Cake Day! #4

Hi everyone!

So for this 4th edition of Sunday Cake Day I went for cupcakes. I wanted to do something different from the usual buttercream on top, I wanted something without volume but still nice. I thought about royal icing and melted chocolate. I went for chocolate.

WRONG DECISION.
It was so difficult to do this one. I didn't know that chocolate was so difficult to model. You melt it, you wait for it to get some consistency so that it can hold, but obviously (dumb me sometimes) it's not a cream, so it just gets hard as it gets cold. There's no much to do with it.

Anyway I wanted to do some kind of grey and black fancy decoration, but ended up with this notsofancy but still delicious cupcakes.

White chocolate mixed with little black vanilla buttons to melt, made the grey.
The rest was just try to create something out of this insanely nothard but notthatliquideither chocolate that almost drove me crazy!

Well it was tasty anyway. Even if the look let me down, the flavour never does!
I also did a little something this time. I cut them in the middle and added some strawberry jam to the inside, covering it after. The result? A super delicious cupcake with a nice surprise inside!

Can't invite you for a bite, so please stay with the pics bellow :)

See you soon!

Nour xo