Baking overdrive.

Don't you just love that feeling when you go into baking overdrive.....i do.

Well at the weekend it was my husbands birthday and as he is a Guinness lover, what better cake to make him than a scrummy totally yummy Guinness chocolate cake. This cake by the way has to be the most moist and delicious cake i have ever tasted in my life........no honest....really it was!

and you know that you can't have chocolate Guinness cake without Guinness chocolate cupcakes to accompany it. These were also extremely moist and as with the cake even the buttercream had some Guinness in it.


As it was bank holiday weekend, the nice weather brought about a family get together and of course a BBQ. I was on dessert duty so i decided to make a selection......first i made a summer berry cheesecake, some home made jam tarts for the kids, about 30+ cupcakes (some were just plain and some had a lemon topping) and lastly i made some Belgium chocolate tarts. These were not just any Belgium chocolate tarts but were topped with chocolate curls and i also made some white chocolate cherubs to go on top of the chocolate tarts, which finished them off perfectly.

Triple Chocolate Profiterole tower

I have always liked the look of profiterole towers and i love eating profiteroles but i had never actually made any myself. So i found myself with some spare time on my hands and no cakes to make, so i thought i would give them a bash and here is how it turned out. I don't think it is too bad for a 1st attempt. These profiteroles were filled with cream, stacked using milk chocolate, drizzled with dark chocolate and finished off with white chocolate roses and rose leaves.