Sunday 5 June 2011

Golden Rose Cake

So, it's been a while... We've had chickenpox and been away for a large amount of the past couple of months, but the spots are gone & I'm back to the cakes.

This one was for a coeliac lady so it was all gluten free, lemon on the top and vanilla for the bottom tier.
She requested golden yellow roses - actually I think it was golden showers roses but googling that made all sorts of horrible things come up!

I hope the colour was OK for her, it's so difficult to get an exact replica in icing & there's a lot of shades of yellow!

I baked this cake the other day
With my girls, it was delicious - so dense and moist, I followed this recipe http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3092/ultimate-chocolate-cake You should totally try it - it was really fab. I won't bother with the recipe for the frosting, even my six year old wouldn't eat much of it, it was so sweet! Stick to a ganache instead.

What's your favourite cake recipe? I'm always looking for new ones to try!

8 comments:

  1. Wow! Your roses are lovely, I'm sure she was thrilled. Wonderful colour. And that chocolate cake... Mmmm Mmmm Mmmmmmm! Looks delish! I'm new to baking - in fact I've done more decorating than baking! - so no tried and tested recipes here [yet! ;)], only a simple cupcake recipe x

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  2. what a gorgeous cake...actually what beautiful CAKES! lucky girls all around! :) welcome back!

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  3. oh worry about the chicken pox, glad that you and ur family is doing well and ur cake extremely beautiful!!

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  4. Thank you all so much for commenting! I hope she was happy - it's so hard to leave a cake with someone else and you don't get direct feedback - I'm sure I'd have heard if she wasn't happy :)

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  5. Wow, I thought the roses were real. So amazing. That chocolate cake looks divine. I need some lessons in icing, I think.

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  6. Your roses are perfect!! I'm looking forward to the next cake!

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  7. Gorgeous and exquisite decoration!

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