Great British Bake Off Challenge

I love almondy things, to the point that I would happily sit down and eat an entire block of marzipan. So Battenburg, one of the challenges on the great British bake off, is right up my street. I have never made one before, mainly because it looks like a bit of a faff and fiddle, but also because I'd eat the entire thing, and would be considerably larger than I am. I do love a challenge though, and since I was palming the calorie laden coffee and walnut battenburg onto my appreciative work colleagues, it was all fine.

The recipe can be found here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/coffee_and_walnut_88342

The finished result was pretty good, although it could have looked slightly better. It tasted very nice though and I had a fight on my hands trying to wrestle it off my husband so I could take it to work.

A couple more cakes

This Christmas has been a very busy but enjoyable time. I made many foodie things for Christmas including this boozy christmas cake. After Christmas I made the piano cake for a joint birthday. I'm quite pleased with the piano cake and looking forward to doing a christening cake later in the month. 

Watering Can Cake

This is one of the most recent cakes I have done. I'm definitely learning new things with every cake I do but I think there is a long way to go to get the refinement that I'm after!  

Cakes, cakes, cakes

I've been doing a few cakes recently so here is a photo of the one of the car cakes I did which was a little more successful than the first attempt. I've got one or two more coming up plus I'm going to have a practice at making my wedding cupcakes. Any tips welcome!  

Fell runner cake

This is another cake that I baked for a friend of a work colleague. Quite a simple cake but effective none the less. I have an order for another one to bake this week which will be a real challenge. It's a dinosaur but standing upright, so getting the shape right and also keeping it sturdy will be somewhat hard. Watch this space!!