So my Saturday was rather productive. I had plans to make a single cake for my friend's birthday. By 10am I had completed said cake and rather than cleaning up the bombsite that was my sprinkle covered dining table I decided to decorate up another. This second cake was for the sole purpose of eating. Also 'cause the economies of cleaning scale... saves me cleaning up twice in one weekend!
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Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Salted Caramel
Happy 31st of May. It is a bittersweet day. As of tomorrow aka the first of June, I shall be giving up all things deemed to be junk food in the name of Junk Free June. Gasp!!! How is this possible??? Sophie, give up cake? And ice cream? No, not the ice cream!!!
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White Chocolate Mud Cake and Dating Myself
My newfound pastime: going on dates with myself.
The other night I wandered around a mall, bought ice cream, went to the night markets and got a pork bun all by myself. I spent the evening in my room, in the dark listening to a great DJ set sent to me by a friend. Then I went to sleep.
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Chocolate Birthday Cake (with white chocolate buttercream)
Quite often people ask me for a good birthday cake recipe. I often refer them towards my trusty crowd pleasing chocolate cake recipe. It's moist, keeps for days and can be smothered in either buttercream or ganache to produce excellent results.
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