Today is my dads birthday and the first time in a long time that I have done any baking.
My dad has been a bit poorly recently and has been in hospital waiting for an operation, which he has now had and is back home recovering. I am so relieved about this because he spent Christmas and new year in hospital, so it wasn’t fair to spend his birthday there also. So because of all the hospital trips, Christmas, working and worrying I haven’t had the time or been in the mood for baking which makes me sad! But as it was dad birthday I knew I had to spoil him with a big chocolate cake for his birthday. It made me so happy getting back in the kitchen after such a long time! Also because I got some new scales and a few baking tools for Christmas which I have been desperate to try out! It felt so right baking again! And everyone went to plan with the cake, which is great considering it was a last minute thing and I was rushed for time. I couldn’t really decide a specific recipe for the cake, but knew what I had in mind. I got each element from different websites. I chose to bake a chocolate cake, recipe from Tesco. https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/chocolate-cake.html I then made a chocolate buttercream to fill then middle of the cake and cover the entire cake. Recipe from BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/chocolate_buttercream_11918 I also made a chocolate ganache to cover the top of my cake and make a drip effect, recipe from Goodtoknow. http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/545826/chocolate-explosion-drip-cake I then covered the top of the cake with lots of chocolate treats such as white Chocolate covered strawberries, chomp Bars and teasers. I finished it with a happy Birthday in the centre and some sprinkles.
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Welcome!Hello, I'm Laura and I am a 25 year old foodie with a passion for baking! When I'm not thinking, blogging about food, reading cooking magazines, searching Instagram for food porn I am usually cooking it!
This Blog started a few years ago now as a place for me to store recipes that I like and that work! I love to take pictures of food and I am on all of the social network site as polkadotcooking. I hope you enjoy my site and give me any feedback if you make anything :) Archives
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