Hoot birthday cake

Happy 2nd birthday to my little mini-Mi!! Flourless orange and almond cake recipe by the The Healthy Chef and cashew nut buttercream recipe from Yummy Beet.

Atom Cake & Cupcakes

Nautical Cupcakes

To all the cast and crew of H.M.S Pinafore, you are amazing and I love you. Mi xoxo

Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate & Coffee Buttercream

Golden Gaytime Cake

Recipe from Tinman's Treats.

Coconut Cake

Ever since mini-Mi started solids, I've been on the hunt for delicious easy recipes for egg less cakes. I've had limited success with egg less baking so far with the exception of my go to banana muffin recipe, admittedly I haven't tried that many recipes but the ones I have tried so far don't have the same texture as cakes made with eggs. My dad's birthday was coming up and he loves coconut so this time around I decided to find a recipe for coconut cake and modify it by replacing eggs with another ingredient. I came across a recipe for Citrus Coconut Cake which had good reviews so decided to give it a go. I made slight modifications which are detailed below, in short, reduced the sugar by half, replaced eggs with natural yoghurt, replaced milk with coconut milk, added vanilla extract and up scaled the recipe by 1.5 times to make a slightly larger cake. Finally, I topped the cake off with some chocolate ganache and toasted shredded coconut. I was really pleased with the result, the cake was lovely, moist and crumbly a bit on the dense side but delicious flavours with just a touch of sweetness. Mi xo

Coconut Cake (adapted from Taste)

• 175 g unsalted softened butter
• 3/4 cup caster sugar
• 3/4 cup natural yoghurt
• 1 1/2 cup sifted self-raising flour
• 1 cup desiccated coconut
• 1 1/2 cup coconut milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• Finely grated rind of 1 lemon

Kirby Birthday Cake

It's Mr Mi's birthday in a few days and this year his request was for a Kirby cake. This time around, it had to be a cake that mini-Mi could eat too as he is allergic to eggs and we are also trying to limit his sugar intake. So I started researching on the internet for egg-free vanilla sponge cakes and came across a couple that looked good: Sharmis Passions Eggless Vanilla Sponge Cake and Divine Taste Eggless Golden Yellow Cake. I trialled both and in the end decided to go with Sharmis recipe as I felt the texture was much softer and had more of a likeness to regular sponge cake. The only modifications I made were to use plain flour instead of maida and honey instead of sugar (4 tbsp). My cake didn't turn out quite as fluffy as the one on Sharmis blog and I'm not sure if this was due to the addition of honey. In any case, it was still delicious topped off with a strawberry buttercream and enjoyed by all especially mini-Mi!