Want to learn how to make some beautiful cakes? Why not come along to a class! **New Classes for 2017** Thanksgiving cakes- Make miniature turkeys! Buttercream Basics- including drip and sugar flowers!
Classes Winter 2017-18
Our wedding!
You may have noticed that things on the blog have been some what sparce of late, and for that I do apologise! I do have a great excuse though, in the fact that I was busy planning our wedding! So, after a 2 year engagement we finally got to tie the knot. We took a …
Rainbow Buttercream
In the last 5 years I must have made over 100 cakes for people, and for the first time ever I got to make a cake to celebrate a six month birthday! I think the idea of that is just so lovely. This little cake came in at 4" before icing it, which just adds …
My little pony Cake
This is certainly one of the cutest cakes I have made. I mean, (to quote my other half) "It is a sleeping unicorn on top of a cloud. How can it not be cute." Inside is my favourite chocolate cake ever (Click here for the recipe!) which has appeared in many forms on this blog …
Chocolate Salted Caramel Layer Cake
Take a look at this cake. I mean, LOOK AT IT. I can assure you that this cake tastes just as good as it looks. I combined several of my favourite things in the world, delicious "Brooklyn Blackout" cake (click here), gooey homemade Salted caramel (Click here) and  vanilla bean buttercream. Yum. Now this cake …
Salted Caramel
This is one of my favourite home made ingredients. You can put it in so many different things or just enjoy it straight from the jar (or pan) with a spoon if you wanted to. This salted caramel is amazing poured on the top of brownies just before they go in the oven, drizzled between layers …
Tractor Cake
Just a quick post to share a cake from a few weeks ago... Inside the cake is a delicious Vanilla, strawberry and Vanilla butter cream- Yum! Inside the tractor are home made rice krispie treats (Recipe coming soon!)
How to Level and Fill a Cake
This is one of the things that I get asked how to do quite often...so I thought I best do a quick tutorial! It is much simpler than it seems, you just need a few tools to make it nice and simple. The cake of your choice - I used the brooklyn black out recipe …
Happy New Year!
As if it is 2016 already?! Â In my head the Millennium was like 2 years ago... If I actually thought about that logically it would mean that I am actually 15 years old, whereas in actual fact I turn 29 this year. Man alive. Anyway, enough about that. Lets talk about this year. 2016. What …
Lovely Lemon Loaf
If you're having one of those moments when you just NEED cake, this is a perfect recipe to try. Really simple, and very little in the way of faff. What you need: 3 large eggs  (170g) 170 g self raising flour 170gcaster sugar  170g unsalted butter (room temp and diced) Zest of 2 lemons Lined …
Rachel Bakes 