Vanilla Sky – Double Vanilla Cupcakes

by ChicCakeChick // July 29, 2013 // 1 Comment

My eye was well and truly caught the other day by a picture of a vanilla cupcake – the post said that it was a Starbucks recipe. I have never had a Starbucks cupcake, but the specimen in the photo... Continue reading →

Ruffled

by ChicCakeChick // July 20, 2013 // No Comments

So last week I was telling you about how to make a gorgeous gluten free hazelnut cupcakes. I mentioned that a big cake of this might warrant a bit of a strawberry buttercream effort. What better occasion than a dear friend’s... Continue reading →

Doing Deco

by ChicCakeChick // July 12, 2013 // No Comments

With the Great Gatsby coming out right now it was a good time for my colleague Chrystal Dare to choose an Art Deco themed bar for her thirtieth birthday (and surprise marriage proposal from her boyfriend!). My present to her... Continue reading →

Freckleicious

by ChicCakeChick // July 12, 2013 // 1 Comment

There comes a time in a baker’s life where she has seen about the interwebs such culinary hilariousnesses as the Polka Dot Cake and has herself become ready to move into the realms of Very Silly Insides.I’ve done marble cake, and don’t... Continue reading →

Gluten Free is Nutty – Hazelnut Nutella Cupcakes

by ChicCakeChick // July 12, 2013 // 3 Comments

Readers of this blog might have guessed that I don’t normally hold with gluten free. Its kind of a religious position, and for me it is indefensible because of the happy fact that I don’t have to. I posses cells which will synthesise the blessed enzymes which process that most... Continue reading →

Victoriana: An ode to the Victoria Sponge

by ChicCakeChick // October 14, 2010 // No Comments

I’ve been quiet for a little while, chiefly because I went through a (two week) phase where I didn’t feel like making or eating (shock horror!) cake. Back in the saddle again… My reawakening in cake form has come in... Continue reading →

Macaroon Swoon

by ChicCakeChick // September 9, 2010 // No Comments

To be honest, I always thought hand made macaroons were made of coconut and coconut only. Gooey mounds, baked til they are tinged with gold, crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside. If you thought that too, you were... Continue reading →

A little trip to Panama – with substandard insurance!

by ChicCakeChick // August 27, 2010 // No Comments

Chocolate. Rum. Almonds. Could we really ever go wrong?I’ve made a few Victoria sponges in the last week or so and for my mum’s birthday, I thought it would be nice to make a foray into the realms of true... Continue reading →

Commenting…

by ChicCakeChick // August 26, 2010 // 1 Comment

I am off home shortly to commence the Panama Cake that Mum is getting for her birthday tomorrow. Happy birthday Mummy, 77 years young. That Elizabeth Arden skincare you used religiously in younger years has served you PROUD! 🙂A few... Continue reading →

Raspberry Love

by ChicCakeChick // August 20, 2010 // No Comments

After days if not weeks on raspberry skepticism in the lead up to Wedding Cake Week: – that is the true lust-like WANT of a raspberry cake without any reasonable idea of how to achieve one (a bit like having... Continue reading →

WCW part 5 – the grand finale

by ChicCakeChick // August 18, 2010 // 2 Comments

I doweled the cakes the day before the wedding. You have to put dowels in the center of the supporting tiers or the cakes would sink down into the lower ones under the weight, cracking the sugarpaste. Even the little... Continue reading →

WCW Part 4 – Ice, Ice, Baby.

by ChicCakeChick // August 15, 2010 // No Comments

Now that the cakes have been baked and layered, they are going to be covered with stable sugarpaste icing. Here’s a cute picture I took of the layered cakes in their boxes prior to being chilled overnight in the fridge. Its... Continue reading →

WCW Part 3 Other Mixings

by ChicCakeChick // August 12, 2010 // No Comments

Luckily other flavours just fall in your lap. Pistachio + Victoria Sponge (Pound Cake to you american types) = heaven. A Victoria Sponge has equal quantities of butter, sugar, eggs, and self raising flour. To this I only needed to... Continue reading →

WCW part 2 – The Mixings – 3D Razz

by ChicCakeChick // August 10, 2010 // 1 Comment

Perfecting a cake flavour takes time, patience, a reasonably sophisticated palate, and a pair of running shoes. And a bunch of willing walking talking waste disposal units (aka somewhere to hide the evidence). The running shoes are actually self explanatory.... Continue reading →

Wedding Cake Week – Introduction

by ChicCakeChick // August 10, 2010 // No Comments

Cake. Cake makes people happy, at least until you scoff the lot and then stand on the scales… I’ve been making and decorating cakes for a lot of years now. I used to only ice or decorate a cake once... Continue reading →