Monday, 11 October 2010

red fruits cake for Louise's birthday

fresh raspberries and strawberries over a raspberry mousse and almond cake below. Pink printed giconda cake to finish it off. A very pink cake! The white chocolate rose sets off the fruit decoration.

raspberry white chocolate and cardammon

hazelnut cake for base with raspberries soaked in framboise liqueur covered in raspberry mousse. I used a white chocolate layer with ground cardommon to give a contrasting flavour.

glazed hazelnut chocolate cake

hazlenut chocolate base cake with bitter sweet chocolate bavarois and a glaze from the paco torreblanca book. Much more shiny and glossy than PH. This was a cake for Stuarts retirement from work.

chocolate apple cinnamon cake

chocolate  mousse containing caramelised apple segments between crisp cinnamon pastry layers within a border of decorated chocolate plates

caramel coffee cake with milk chocolate tile decoration

almond cake with light coffee and caramel mousse layers surrounded by chocolate plates and with a semi-liquid caramel swirl topping

chocolate coolness

showing the slices through a simple chocolate cake with light bitter chocolate bavarois layer above. Sprayed to create a velvety chocolate texture on top

bitter chocolate-mocha vanilla creation

printed cake surrounding chocolate and coffee mousse topped by coffee infused genoise cake and a layer of vanilla bavarois

Thursday, 12 August 2010

chocolate heaven

chocolate brownie cake with chocolate mousse and glaze. You can just spot a eager child waiting for a slice in the background!

mango sensation

mango and apricot bavarois with hazlenut cake and liqueur soaked fruit. Found making fruit puree base for mousse myself tastes nicest and can adjust sweetness more easily

chris' birthday cake

birthday cake for chris. blackberry bavarois, almond dacquiose and a printed giconda cake. Just got the Pierre Herme bible and couldn't resist this one.

Sunday, 8 August 2010