Bubble and Sweet

What the actual fudge has happened to chocolate prices in the past few years.
I'm going to admit in the past I have never really kept track of prices so much, I was buying in bulk, frequently and often at wholesalers so the prices were not super clear. But over the past few years I had a bit of a blogging hiatus so there was a...

Chocolate peanut butter layer cake with Oreo edible cookie dough layers.
The Destroyer had his 17th birthday a few weeks back and he let me choose the birthday cake flavour.
I asked Bubble what type of cake I should make and she said "I think he likes peanut butter and chocolate", and tbh I'm not sure if that is true or if I have just been making peanut, chocolate, Oreo flavoured cakes for him for so many years that we all...

Homemade caramel is so easy to make with just a few ingredients and it genuinely tastes so much better than store bought. I know it seems tricky but if you follow the simple steps I have shown in the pictures below it's not really that hard.
The key is to have all your ingredients ready, watch the syrup colour closely and take it off the stove as soon as it reaches the perfect golden colour. The photo's below show the progression from clear to gold over about 6 minutes. But once it reaches...

Sweet had her 19th birthday a few weeks back and I when I asked her what kind of cake she wanted she chose blueberry and lemon. So I came up with a vanilla blueberry cake with layers of homemade lemon curd covered in a vanilla Italian meringue.
To decorate, I decided to channel my love for Sweet and I came up with a mildly chaotic, colourful, beautifully whimsical cake....