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Treat yourself with this Raw Snickers Cake

08 Tuesday Nov 2016

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cake club, camden bars, camden lockside, clandestine cake club, favourite chocolate bar recipes, ferrero rocher cake, gianduia cake, gluten free, goodfoodgoddess, halloween, healthy snickers cake, kit kat cake, lockside, peanut butter cake, raw cake, raw recipes, Raw Snickers Cake, Snickers cake, whittakers coconut slab

snickers-raw-cake_ raw-cake-snickers raw-snickers_cakeOur Clandestine Cake club fell on Halloween for the month of October however we decided to go against tradition of making Halloween/scary/pumpkin cakes and the theme instead was favourite chocolate bars.

As a terribly indecisive person, usually when I learn of the theme for cake club I spend a good bit of time deciding on what to make (there can always be so many options) and then end up changing my mind last minute.  However, this month as soon as I learnt what the theme was I chose my chocolate bar straight away which meant I just needed to find/think up a recipe for it.

For me I am a huge chocolate lover and have many favourite chocolate bars, turnock caramel bar (yes please) whittakers coconut slab & that new dairy milk bar with white, dark and milk chocolate (yum!),  however one bar which I love in both its bar form and as an ice cream is snickers. Continue reading →

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Halloween just wouldn’t be the same without some Pumpkin Pie

28 Friday Oct 2016

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bobbing apples, Candyman, halloween, halloween abroad, hocus pocus, pies, practical magic, pumpkin pie recipe, spice cake, sweet shortcrust pastry, trick or treat, Vancouver

pie_pumpkinpumpkin-pieHalloween is one of my favourite seasons. I have so many fun memories of it from childhood starting with playing bobbing apples and having a nose filled with water, to having friends over to watch horror films as well as the yearly tradition of watching Hocus Pocus or Practical Magic!

I used to love trick or treating and continued going until I was far too old! One year, my siblings and I went knocking on our neighbours doors and one person asked for a trick instead of a treat and we had nothing for them so the following year we filled a plastic bag with rotten eggs and ketchup and made them put their hand inside. Wild I know.

One of my favourite memories was watching the film Candyman with my friend Christopher when we were about 13 years old and we were sitting in a room where there was a mirror directly to Christopher’s left. In the scene where Candyman comes out from the mirror I remember screaming so much and then laughing hysterically after at how scared we both were.

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‘Cake Catwalk’ Pumpkin Tier Cake

09 Sunday Nov 2014

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As you can see I’m a bit late with the posting considering I’m posting about a cake designed as a pumpkin and we’re now into the beginning of October but it’s still kind of Halloween spirit right? Fireworks are still happening and as long as there’s pumpkin on the market then making cakes using them can never be too late.

I actually made this cake not for a Halloween event but for October’s Cake Club ‘Cake Catwalk’ event. Since being completely blown away by the sheer awe inspiring talent of cakes displayed along a catwalk at the Cakes & Bakes show last year I have been meaning to create one that could test my skills when it comes to cake decorating. I love nothing more than looking at cakes and admiring other people’s work but I also wanted to give it a go, and give myself enough time to spend decorating and thinking about a ‘catwalk’ cake.

As it was October and drawing close to Halloween I immediately thought about baking a pumpkin cake and therefore searched the net for some inspiration. There were some incredible cakes at the Bakes & Cakes show that I went to the Saturday before. I especially loved the Tim Burton inspired corpse bride cake with the beautiful twisted black tree down the side as well as some mighty impressive ones from individuals as young as 8! (I’m guessing some parents might have given a helping hand in the making there but oh well!)

The cake I decided upon was a there tier pumpkin cake. I had previously made some lovely, light pumpkin passion cupcakes at my brothers 30th and therefore decided to use the same recipe. I’ve never used a recipe meant for cupcakes to make a 20cm round cake before so was a bit anxious as to how it would turn out. Thankfully it baked through, although it could’ve been slightly springier. It did feel quite heavy and although tasted lovely when I make it again I will either:

  1. Not leave it in the oven so long
  2. Follow an actual cake rather than cupcake recipe

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