Happy Valentines!
Happy Valentines everyone!
I hope cupid was kind to you all? I thought I would post up this lovely picture done my my very own valentine – Miles. I love it and I think it really says something romantic, but it is also quite neutral if your not into the whole valentines romance thing. I am at work writing this, so no cards or surprises for me yet – fingers crossed for this evening!
Just a little Post
This is the picture that best describes how I would like to remember my weekend. I have spent the whole thing feeling pretty ill and sorry for myself, but today we ventured out to Greenwich to soak up some sun and stroll in the lovely park. I came across this beautiful independent cake shop called Daisy Cakes Bake Shop and had to tell everyone about it. I don’t want people to think I am obsessed with cakes, but they are just so damn pretty I can’t resist. Daisy Cakes is in Greenwich and they really do make a mean raspberry cupcake – very fluffy and really light. The cake shop also sells really useful and unusual cake equipment and accessories too, I’ll be heading back for supplies soon. The weather today has been almost spring like at 16 degrees - a very welcome change to the grey skies we are used to.
To facilitate my feeling ill I have been watching the first season of the new American series Gossip Girl. It’s made by Josh Shwartz, the brains behind The O.C and gosh it’s good so far! I highly recommend it!
p.s Miles and I finally have ourselves a flat so it’s all exciting stuff!
welovelocal Cake Recipe
I recently made a welovlocal.com cake for work it was my colleague Dan’s Birthday and plus I thought It would be nice to make some cake for the office, anyway people always ask for the recipe and because I kind of make it up I can never simply write it out for them so I thought I would do it on here and be done with it (for you Elaine).
Ingredients: (2 sandwich cake tins, well greased)
8 0z of margarine Large slab of cooking chocolate (scotch block)
7 oz castor sugar Large jar of Nutella
4 eggs 2 huge heaped table spoons of coca powder
8 oz of plain flour 2 level teaspoons of baking powder
- Cream the butter and sugar together until it’s fluffy then beat the eggs in one at a time.
- Sieve the flour, baking powder and coca into the mixture giving it height for extra air (fluffiness). Fold and mix the mixture adding hot water in to stop it drying out, mixture should be moist and drop off a spoon.
- Divide the mixture into the two tins and smooth out mixture to give an even surface and then bake on a medium to hot gas mark in a pre heated oven for about 20 – 25 mins (keep checking to avoid burning). Put a clean kinfe through the cakes to see if the are fully cooked if it comes out clean then they are done.
- Leave cakes to cool and then begin to grate your chocolate for the covering, I use cooking chocolate as real choc melts too quickly. Grate one whole big bar and keep in the fridge until ready to use.
- When the cakes have cooled used a generous amount of Nutella as the sandwich filling it gives a great taste. Melt some non-cooking chocolate to a runny consistency and add and stir in a generous amount of Nutella (this will be used to cover the entire cake).
- Now you have you two halves of the cake together smooth over the melted chocolate and Nutella, after a few mins remove the grated chocolate from fridge and cover the cake in the chocolate shavings (making sure you have no gaps) and then decorate with anything you like.
If anyone gives it a go I would love to know how you get on? x