Chocolate Ginger Biscuit Cake!

It was the boss' birthday and he said his favourite cake is 'biscuit cake'! Biscuit cake is known by several different names such as refrigerator cake and tiffin cake. I have never made a biscuit cake so thought I will give it a try.


First, 300g of gingersnaps were crushed and broken into pieces. Chocolate, sugar and butter are then melted in a large saucepan. The crushed gingersnaps, chopped dried mango, raisins and glace cherries were then combined into the pot mix. The 'dough' is then spread over a baking tin and left to chill in the fridge to harden.

I got 20 pieces, the Husband ate a couple, 9 pieces were given to the boss for his birthday present and the rest eaten by the Office!

Chocolate Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream Icing!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I thought I will set myself a challenge to bake something pink every week this month. So, this weekend, I decided to combine the Husband's favourite food, chocolate, with my choice of pink, strawberries.


This delicious cupcake is baked out of plain flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder, sugar, butter, chocolate chips, water, eggs, cocoa powder and a little bit of salt.

For the icing, I used Sainsbury's strawberry flavoured icing powder mixed with water and beaten with butter to make strawberry buttercream icing!

The original recipe was for 18 muffin sized cupcakes but by making them just a little bit smaller, I ended up with 37 cupcakes! All but 4 were eaten by the end of the day in the Office and I had a request for the recipe!

The Husband has declared them 'quite good' but he's not a fan of creamy stuff, so buttercream icing is always a taste challenge for him! 

Coconut Oreo Chocolate Chip Cookies!

The Husband requested for chocolate chip cookies on Friday evening as a treat. So besides making him a batch of banana chocolate chip cookies, I decided to bake something different as well and found this recipe online.

This batch of cookies are baked out of butter, brown and granulated sugar, plain four, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder, chocolate chips, 12 oreos, egg, vanilla extract and desiccated coconut. This american recipe uses coconut delight oreo fudge cremes but unfortunately we don't get that variety in the UK, so I used plain vanilla oreos instead which I have to say I don't think affected the taste of these cookies! 

The Husband finds it slightly strange to bake a cookie in a cookie but it didn't stop him scoffing 2!

Now to find more tasters....

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.