Food is Happiness
This year, I have been doing a lot of baking, and my latest obsession is shortbread. The Caker has a great shortbread recipe in her latest book - Sunday Baking. I've adapted the recipe by adding freeze dried fruit powder. I made 2 types - Passionfruit shortbread dipped in dark chocolate with freeze dried raspberries sprinkled on top, and Lime shortbread dipped in dark chocolate with shopped pistachios sprinkled on top. I've also got some orange, lemon and matcha flavours that
Cake or Death?
I slaved away in the kitchen to make this delicious beast of a cake, why you ask? I'll tell you. Because I love chocolate cake. And boy is this a good recipe. The cake is deliciously rich and moist, with just the right amount of sweetness. Sometime you have a couple of mouthfuls of cake and it's just too overpoweringly sweet, not this one, you can definitely go back for seconds! Click here for a link to the chocolate cake recipe and here for a link to the chocolate buttercrea
Birthday cake decadence
It was my fiancés birthday and as per tradition, I made him a cake to top the previous years. This year it was a rich dark chocolate cake with salted caramel buttercream, topped with chocolate ganache and salted caramel sauce and various sweet treats. I don't know how I'm going to outdo myself next year! #food #lifestyle #cooking