After making jelly cakes last week for the Mother's Day afternoon tea, I realised how delicious they are and wondered why I don't make them more often! So with no cake baking to do this weekend I made some blue jelly cakes.
These cakes are very easy to make. I use a quick sponge cake recipe, but any sponge cake could be used, it is best made the day before so it doesn't fall apart when submerged in the jelly. My friend, Gail, has blogged an excellent step by step for jelly cakes here.
I also made some caramel mudcake cake pops. I was going to a linen party on Monday night, and wanted to take something yummy for supper. I usually make these and cover them with white chocolate, but I find the white chocolate is too sweet, so this time covered them in milk chocolate. They were delicious!
Two delicious sweets that are very easy to make, and really should be made more often :)
Enjoy your week.
My niece Ruby turned 7 today and had a party to celebrate with her friends from school. She spent a couple of weeks going through all of my cake books looking for the perfect cake. A rabbit was her cake choice! I love getting to create cake's that I haven't done before and this was one of them. It is from the Lindy Smith "Quick and Clever Party Cakes" book which a friend was kind enough to lend to me. This particular rabbit cake is very life like. Ruby requested caramel mudcake, which was filled with white chocolate ganache and fondant fur.
Ruby also requested her favourite vanilla sugar cookies, rabbit shaped of course and also rabbit cake pops. The cake pops were caramel mudcake too.
The party colour theme was pink, pink and more pink! So the party table reflected this perfectly.
Tulle pom-poms, pink table covering, loads of pink lollies (including musk sticks, marshmallows, milk bottles, teeth, mentos, sherbet lollies, starburst sunfruits and pink foil money chocolates), the rabbit cake, cookies, cake pops and cake balls.
Pretty pink boxes were filled with lots of goodies for each guest to take home.
Happy Birthday Ruby Claire xxx
Today is Valentine's Day and I made some chocolate cupcakes and the papers peeled away from the cake, what a great reason to mix the cake with some ganache and experiment making some heart shaped cake pops.
In the past I have made regular round cake pops, so used a heart shaped cutter to make these.
I used red candy melts for the coating and some cute little candy hearts as decorations. There was plenty of cake mixture, so I made some regular round pops too.
These cake pops are very easy to make and would look great in any shape. I will try flower and star shapes next time. I am continually inspired by Bakerella and Linda from Bubble and Sweet, their creations always amaze me!
Happy Valentines Day to you all :)
