Football fever

The Superbowl is over but football cakes are still popular. This 13th birthday cake for a football enthusiast - San Diego in particular - combined a fun vanilla sprinkle cake with sweet vanilla buttercream filling. Sugar pearls in the team colours surround an edible football "exploding" out of the centre of the cake.

New year, new flavours!

It's February, it's cold outside and I can feel myself fighting the mid-winter blahs. I think a creative pick-me-up is in order and coming up with a few new flavour combinations might just do the trick!

Just off the top of my head, I'm thinking about pink lemonade (layers of moist lemon cake filled with lemon and raspberry buttercream), margarita (I love homemade lime curd!!)  and chocolate chip cookie (similar to my vanilla surprise cake, combining chocolate and vanilla cake with a layer of chocolate chip cookie and vanilla and milk chocolate swirl buttercream.

Then there's the buttered almond dessert cake (a version of the cake made famous by a former Cambridge restaurant). White chocolate and lemon sounds tempting....so does chocolate and salted caramel buttercream. It's time to do some experimenting . . . taste testers apply here! :)