Banana Rum Cake!

I bought a new baking mould that looked fabulous so I was very keen to try it out. From one of my favourite websites, I found quite a few recipes for bundt cakes so I picked the recipe with the Husband's favourite fruit, bananas.

This fabulous looking cake is baked out of self-raising flour, butter, sugar, vegetable oil, vanilla extract, eggs, rum and buttermilk.I then iced it with rum flavoured buttercream icing.

This cake has got rave reviews and was eaten in a day!

Tropical Burst Cupcakes!

This weekend I needed to use up some sugar decorations and soured cream. This tropical burst cupcake recipe seemed ideal.

This cupcake is baked out of self-raising flour, vegetable oil, soured cream, caster sugar, dried mango, raisins, eggs and pineapple chunks.

I topped the cupcakes with a frosting made out of lime zest, lime juice and icing sugar as well as a sugar butterfly and pink sprinkles!

Have yet to try them out on the Husband so will keep you posted on taste!

Orange Chocolate Chip Cake!

It's the time of the year when we do a Charity Bake in the Office.

The boss outsourced his baking to me and asked for something orange. The Husband remembered a cake that my mother-in-law used to bake that was orange and chocolatey so asked for the recipe for me to bake.

This cake is absolutely fabulous and really simple. The cake is baked out of eggs, self-raising flour, butter, sugar, orange juice, orange zest, chocolate chips and walnuts. It is sandwiched with orange buttercream icing and then topped with chocolate fudge icing.

The best compliment from the Husband was 'it's exactly what I remembered it to be'.

The cake was 'sold' in a couple of hours!

I also baked an old favourite, the mango and chocolate brownies, which was 'sold' in an hour!

Coconut Buns!

From one of my favourite baking books, a simple coconut bake sounds like a good idea when I was very jet-lagged.

These coconut buns are baked out of butter, caster sugar, milk, self-raising flour, raisins, egg and desiccated coconut. The Husband and I both thought they tasted a bit bland so I decided to finish them with icing sugar and a sprinkle of desiccated coconut.

46 buns were finished in two days at the Office.