Spoooooooky Cakes!

It's Halloween folks and there's nothing better than creating some scary cakes to impress everybody with! Phoebe threw a spooky Halloween party on Saturday and we baked up some terrifying treats. Have a look at our frightening fancies...

Meringue ghosts and vampire fangs...filled with blood (ok jam!)

Messy but sooo delicious - Salted caramel chocolate cake

 

Spiced pumpkin cupcakes with chocolate spiders

And how about this amaaazing wedding cake somebody shared with us...how much fun would a Halloween wedding be? 

 http://cakesdecor.com/cakes/68322

Make some chocolate spiders

To make some chocolate spider decorations just simply melt dark chocolate over a pan of water. Once melted, place in the fridge for a few minutes until the chocolate thickens slightly. Place in a piping bag with a small round nozzle on the end and pipe spots on to a sheet of grease-proof paper. Next pipe legs and then place in the fridge until the chocolate has set hard. Once set the spiders should be easy to remove from the paper and ready to decorate your Halloween cakes and desserts. Sprinkle with a bit of glitter to make them shine...eeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

Happy Halloween...mwahahahahahahahah!

Wentworth Woodhouse Wedding Fair

The very first wedding fair at Wentworth Woodhouse was an exciting event! We packed up our cakes and headed over to one of the most beautiful venues in South Yorkshire. Hidden away among the trees is Pemberley! OK so not really Pemberley but Wentworth wouldn't have been out of place in Pride and Prejudice, especially with Mr Darcy emerging from the lake in his wet shirt! 

Wentworth Woodhouse was such a beautiful setting for the wedding fair and we felt so privileged to be taking part. So many different exhibitors were there and it was fantastic to take a wonder around the beautiful interiors and look at some of the talent that was on display. Our favourites were a giant Ferrero Rocher heart, a beautifully set dining table and a giant chocolate fountain display...all unsurprisingly linked to food and chocolate! We shared the room with several cake exhibitors but the competition was healthy as we all seemed to bring something different to offer the Brides and Grooms. It was great to speak to other cake decorators and take some inspiration away.

For Wentworth we created a fairy tale cake, with pink sugar roses and topped with a colour changing castle. But we absolutely loved one of the exhibitors who had taken inspiration from the grand decor of the house and incorporated it all in to her cakes with beautiful gold piping and mouldings.





It was such a wonderful day and we are extremely grateful to the Rotherham Advertiser for including us in such a fantastic event at a stunning venue. We can't wait for the next event!

The World's Biggest Coffee Morning

Events are taking place all over tomorrow...make sure you support Macmillan and pick up some coffee and cake at one of the events taking place near you.

We've made vanilla and strawberry cupcakes to help raise money at one of our local events.

http://coffee.macmillan.org.uk/Home.aspx#.UkSQ975wbIU

Cookie Kits

For your baking mad friends or family why not surprise them with a Kiss Me Cake cookie kit.






Each kit contains:

Dry cookie mix
Instructions
Edible decorations
Cookie cutter
Cookie jar

We love our chocolate gingerbread cookie kit, all you have to do is add butter and eggs. Easy! E-mail us now for prices and more details.

Kiss Me Cake Bakery will be supporting charity football match

Kiss Me Cake Bakery will be supporting the Doing It for Stuart Charity Football Match on Sunday 8th September.

For more information or to purchase raffle tickets, please contact Catherine at kissmecakebakery@gmail.com

Get a head start on Christmas!

Decorated Christmas Cupcakes - £13 for 6 or £2.50 each

We know, this wasn't something we were looking forward to posting; just the word Christmas seems ridiculously premature to be using when the summer is barely over. But, we'll just mention it quickly, plant the seed and then we promise we won't say a word until next month! 

October is the month when we start making our Christmas cakes, if you want a rich, delicious, boozy cake then it's vital that we start them so early so they can be fed with brandy up until they need to be decorated.

September is the time to start planning...

We are happy to start taking orders and queries now. Our prices start from £10. Just send us details of how many people you want the cake to feed, whether you would like your cake decorated and any dietary requirements (nut allergies, gluten free...). Our cakes come lovingly packaged and make the perfect gift or a beautiful centrepiece for your table.

Have a look at some of our cakes that customers ordered last year. 

Scandinavian Christmas Cakes - from £15

Gingerbread cupcakes - £2.00 each or £10 for a box of six

Give something a bit different this Christmas or impress your guests with some delicious treats from Kiss Me Cake Bakery. Look out on our blog and Facebook page for more Christmas gift ideas over the next few months.

Raspberry and Vanilla Cupcakes

These cupcakes were a bit of an experiment and we don't mean to boast but they are just a little bit brilliant! Light vanilla sponge, filled with a seedless raspberry jam and topped with raspberry flavoured butter cream. They are simple to make and so we are sharing our recipe with you, you lucky, lucky people. Get baking them now and let us know what you think.



Ingredients 

6ozs/150g or unsalted butter
8ozs/200g of Self raising flour
1 1/2 level teaspoons of baking powder
6ozs/150g of caster sugar
3 medium eggs
cupcake cases
1 tsp good quality vanilla extract

for the butter cream:

6oz/150g softened unsalted butter
12oz/300g sieved icing sugar
handful of fresh raspberries

Good quality raspberry jam (seedless is better)
Raspberries, sugar and edible glitter to decorate

Method

1) Pre-heat the oven to Gas mark 4/180c/350f and line your cupcake tray with the cupcake cases.

2) Place the butter in a bowl and beat until light. Next add all of the other ingredients and beat for 2 mins until the ingredients are well incorporated.

3) Scoop the mixture into your cupcake cases and bake in the oven for 20 mins or until golden brown and a skewer inserted in to the middle of the cake comes out clean. Leave to cool.

4) Whilst the cakes are cooling mix your butter cream. Soften the butter and then add the icing sugar gradually and mix until you have a light fluffy consistency.

5) Blend the raspberries and strain the mixture through a sieve to remove the seeds. Add this to your butter cream to create a natural pink colour.

6) When the cakes are cooled. Scoop out a small amount of cake from the centre and fill with raspberry jam. If you can't get seedless jam, place your jam in a sieve and stir to remove the seeds by straining it.

7) Next pipe your butter cream or smooth it on to the top of the cupcake. 

8) Add the finishing touches by mixing together a table spoon of granulated sugar with edible glitter, roll a raspberry in the sugar mixture and place on top of the cupcake. Add a mint leaf if you like to complete the decoration.

Place on a cake stand and watch these little beauties disappear before your eyes...make sure you save the biggest one for yourself. After all that hard work you deserve it!