Birthday Cake

Another experiment with decorating cakes - chocolate shavings with mocha butter icing this time.

Uh oh, I've been in the kitchen again!

Ok, this time I haven't bothered to

put the cake on a nice clean white plate after I decorated it. I thought it looked kind of artistic with the mess of icing around the edge...well that's my excuse. Right, so this time I made a chocolate cake with a thick layer of chocolate butter icing in the middle, then strawberry and melted chocolate icing for the topping.

Wish I could be a cake designer for a living, it's fun experimenting!

Yum, chocolate cake!

I baked this cake today and it has chocolate butter icing in the middle, chocolate sponge and melted chocolate covering....very me.

Last weekend's chocolate cake...wish it was still here

I haven't found the motivation to write any long blogs lately, particularly ones that at least come close to sounding half way intelligent or philosophical. I can't quite figure out why that is but maybe it's a combination of tiredness from working and sometimes feeling like blogging is pointless. However, when ever I do get stuck into writing a 'proper' blog I do enjoy it and find I have a lot to say. Right now though, I am again feeling like I have mush for brains and I'm also very sleepy...well it is 2.03am! So I'm afraid it is another relatively short blog involving no wit or charm and in this case, it's about my chocolate cake that I baked from scratch last weekend. The cake turned out to be massive because it rose so much. I was worried it was going to sink because I hadn't baked in so long! It was rather tasty if I do say so myself, even though I used a runny icing in the middle which made it resemble slightly Vraie Fiction's catastrophe cake :p hehe