So a couple of weeks ago, I got a call from a friend of a friend who said that she was having a mothering blessing for my friend, and would I be interested in making some cakes for her as this friend had seen pictures of my cakes all over facebook and desperately want to try them! I said of course, so we settled on a chocolate cake and a carrot cake.
The chocolate cake was a nice simple recipe given to me by my sister-in-law and was the first cake I ever made! I have since adapted the recipe slightly and changed the ganache, which my lovely husband kindly decorated for me, I used white chocolate and dark chocolate – the results can be seen below –
I then made a carrot cake, again given using a recipe which was given to me by my sister-in-law – this has to be the best carrot cake I have ever tasted – everyone says it is just so moist and my neighbor often requests this for her birthday cake! 🙂  Picture below –
If you would like the recipes for either cakes, please just let me know by leaving a comment below and I will happily do a separate post detailing each recipe!
The same weekend, we had my ex boss for Sunday lunch and she loves chocolate – the only request was can you do chocolate for starter, main and desert. As much as I would’ve liked to do that, I decided to do a fabulous chocolate mousse cake for desert instead, which came out really well – the next time I do, I will use a slightly deeper cake tin though! I used the recipe from Rachel Allen Cake – fabulous book!
The chocolate mousse cake –
Now doesn’t that look fabulous?
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this and I will be back soon with a few new cakes – I am going to attempt a gin and tonic cake this weekend!
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