Catch Up

Firstly, at New Years was a friend’s birthday that Michael and I made the cake for. Maxfield Parrish was a favourite artist of the recipient with The Latern Bearers being her favourite piece. So keeping this in mind we made an orange chiffon cake and after covering it in buttercream we decorated it with the […]

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Happy New Year

May 2009 bring you health, wealth and happiness. We saw in the New Years at a friend’s party, it was Masquerade so a few days before we decided on a costume. This was mostly based around the fact that DmentD really wanted to make himself a fez. So we decided to go 1950’s kitsch! We […]

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Gun Range

Earlier this week DmentD took me to the gun range. This might seem odd and bizarre to anyone over there in the UK, you’re all wondering now whether I’m living with a gun-toting maniac *grins* The answer’s no I’m not. This was infact the first time I had seen any of the guns though I […]

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School’s Up

For two weeks anyway… Not that I’ve had much time to appreciate it yet, I’ve been keeping myself busy! The last week of school was fun, we started with an Angel Food Cake (an American creation that didn’t taste so good, chewy and no flavour at all), made a Frambois, Pralinettes which were very much […]

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Caaake!

Two weeks of cakes down, one left. I’m really enjoying it so far, picking up some new techniques and getting better. We’ve had a busy week making carrot cake and banana cake, a triangle cake, amour de polenta, pineapple upside down cake, sacher torte and an alhambra cake for the exam. It was fun making […]

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7 Hours

That’s apparently how long I can stay awake to keep DmentD company when we’re driving long distances overnight! I had class Wednesday night, with my exam for custards making the charlotte au cassis, it went well, my glacage was a bit thick but aside from that it went well.. my piping is improving, I still […]

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