Posts tagged "vanilla"

Cowboy cake

The brief for this cake was ‘something cowboy themed’ and it was great fun to work on. The cake was a 3 layer vanilla sponge filled with strawberry jam and vanilla buttercream. I covered the whole cake in white sugar paste then added a band of blue for the jeans, brown for the belt and...

Recipe testing – Vanilla & Rhubarb Ice Cream

I was excited when Vanessa, who is in the process of writing a very exciting sounding cookery book called Prepped!, was looking for recipe testers. She has enlisted the help of many food bloggers to test out the recipes for her new book and report back how they went. The beauty of all the recipes...

Baby Shower Giant Cupcake

At the weekend it was my sister’s baby shower. Unfortunately, I couldn’t make it as I am suffering from a nasty cold and thought it best not to share my germs! However, I did send Dale, the girls and this giant cupcake. It is a vanilla cupcake decorated with vanilla buttercream and sugar paste decorations....