Tag: cake
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Oscar’s Heart Love Cake
The commercialism of Valentine’s Day reached Oscar this year. Hubby and I usually ignore it, but Oscar insisted that we needed to have something special for dinner, so we made a “heart love” cake. I had shared some instruction on Facebook for a heart cake made from a square cake and a circle cake, but… Read more
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Best Ever Carob Cake (or Chocolate Cake without Chocolate)
Last weekend was my Dad’s 65th birthday, so the whole family was at Mum and Dad’s to celebrate. My nephew has recently started on the elimination diet, so my Mum wanted to make a cake that he could have and was thinking of a carob cake. I’ve been making chocolate cakes for my Dad’s birthday… Read more
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Layered Apple/Pear Buttermilk Cake
This is not a new recipe, it is just a variation in presentation on my Mum’s Apple Layered Cake, made with buttermilk instead of sour cream. It also works well with pears instead of apples, and can be eaten as a dessert cake or just for cake’s sake. Coming Up Next Time: Butterscotch Muffins Read more
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My Nana’s Pumpkin Cake
This is another recipe from my Nana’s hand written recipe book. It’s easy and yummy and tastes great with or without the fruit and nuts. Her recipes are all written with oven temperatures without fan-forced, so I try to cook them with the fan off rather than try and convert the timing (it’s easier this… Read more
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The Birthday Party
The party is over, we’ve cleaned up, the jumping castle has gone and I’ve finally managed to have something to eat and a couple of glasses of champas. Oscar had a great time and his response to his Chuggington Cake was Wow, Wow, Wow! Not bad eh? The cake did take a while, but it… Read more
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Chocolate / Carob Zucchini Cake
Chocolate zucchini cakes are delicious. The zucchini makes the cake really moist and the little zucchini pieces don’t taste a bit like zucchini, it just melts away. I modified this recipe from one I found on Chocolate and Zucchini (where else!). It need very little modification and I tried a carob version which was just… Read more
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Coffee Cake / Cupcakes and Maple Butter Cream Icing
I’ve been looking around for some ideas for cakes with a different flavour – vanilla, pear, chocolate and carob have been staples in our house for sometime now. When I found this coffee cupcake recipe came from BBC Good Food I had a “d’oh” moment – why didn’t I think of that? The recipe was OK as… Read more
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Devil’s Food Cup Cakes
I just had to try this recipe when I found it. Devil’s Food Cup Cakes that had nothing in them – no dairy, no eggs, no sugar, gluten-free, soy-fee and corn-free! I was sooo impressed that I made them several times trying various combinations – carob/cocoa, milk/rice milk/almond milk, butter/nuttelex/oil, rice malt/maple syrup. I made a few… Read more
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Pear Dessert Cake
This Pear Dessert Cake recipe is based on Jane’s Pear Dessert Cake recipe from The Failsafe Cookbook, with a few tweeks of my own. It’s quick and easy to make and is great served with custard or ice cream. A good one for cold winter nights. The leftovers make a great morning or afternoon snack.… Read more
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The Birthday Week – Two Chocolate Cakes
Hubby and I have our birthdays two days apart. Before Oscar came along we usually just had one celebration and never bothered with a cake. Now there is an expectation of a cake and “party” for each of us. Last weekend was birthday weekend, and it was a chocolate fest. To reduce the amount of left… Read more
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Easter Lunch/Dinner: Stuffed Roast Chicken and Chocolate Squidgy Log
With Easter coming up, I thought I’d post two recipes that we use for special occasions (lunch or dinner) – stuffed roast chicken and squidgy chocolate log. The squidgy chocolate log recipe is one of my husbands specialities, from before I even met him. It’s not his recipe though, it’s from Delia Smith’s Complete Cookery Course (omnibus edition… Read more
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No-Tomato Sauce & Nectarine and Sour Cream Cake
Welcome back for 2012. It’s been a busy time in the kitchen at Oscar’s house this summer. We’ve had a breakthrough with vegetables, with Oscar suddenly eating orange ones (carrot and sweet potato) without complaint, and even some greens ones! I’ve been putting them into more meals to keep his interest up – salads, sweet… Read more
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Christmas Cake Decorating Part 2 – Royal Icing
I’ve finally finished my Christmas Cake and I’m quite pleased with it. The Royal Icing part was actually quite easy and I had enough left over to let Oscar help me make some Christmas Tree shapes to decorate the top. And as it’s Christmas we used a little bit of natural food colour to make… Read more
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Christmas Cake Decorating Part 1 – Cashew Marzipan
I’ve never decorated a cake with anything more fancy than butter icing before, so I’m not sure why I’m tempting fate decorating Oscar’s Christmas Cake, but I am! The first step is the Marzipan. I’m not a fan of almond marzipan, but while researching options I came across some recipes for cashew marzipan, which seems… Read more
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Chocolate Cashew Butter Cheesecake
I made a trial of my Chocolate Cashew Butter cheesecake for Christmas last week; luckily I had a picnic to take it to, as it is far too rich for us to even consider polishing of ourselves! Oscar even told me it was too sweet. Even with low fat sour cream and cream cheese, it… Read more
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Carrot, Zucchini and Apple Loaf with Cream Cheese Icing
I published this recipe in February, but when I made it recently I also made a cream cheese icing to go with it. Which gave me a good excuse to republish it. Read more
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Christmas Blog Hop and Christmas Cake
As Christmas is fast approaching (only 2 months to go!) I thought it might be fun to host a blog hop about Christmas food. For me this is one of the most difficult times of the year to manage Oscar’s food because there are usually so many people involved and I can’t always influence the… Read more
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The Final Birthday Post
We have been eating birthday cake for 5 days now, and this is my final post on Oscar’s birthday party. As well as his party on Sunday he also took a cake into his day care centre for a another “party” there. There are strict rules about taking food into child care centres. I can… Read more
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Birthday Preparations
Oscar’s 3rd birthday party is tomorrow and I have spent the last 2 days shopping for and preparing the party food. Its a train themed party with a Thomas and Friends birthday cake. Almost all the party food has had to be home made, including the cake. Since I couldn’t use natural food colourings for… Read more