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[chickencam]

Here is my attempt, a Black Forest Cake made for ED's 19th birthday last week, it was great fun to do, we made a lot of mess trying to get the finely grated dark chocolate to stick to the sides.

 

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8182/8046743928_752f2e3217_z.jpg

 

The main cake was a chocolate courgette cake rather than the traditional sponge that you would use, this was at ED's request because she loves really chocolatey cake. She loved it as did OH and YD, but myself and DS are much more plain and fruit cake sort of people.

 

Edited to make the link clickable and the photo bigger.

[Egluntyne]

Cor! It looks very professional.

[kinsk]

Wow that looks really good!

[chickencam]

Thanks

 

I thought that it would be nice for us to have a thread where we could post our own baking challenges.

[jasperaliceuk]

That looks more than moreish!

Sue

[Daphne]

What a lovely looking cake I will spectate on this thread, my cake making skills stop at the cake...ie minus any decoration whatsoever....eating them is more my forte

[chickencam]

Me too normally, but my children do like to challenge me to bake them interesting birthday cakes.

[chickencam]

 

 

 

 

 

Here are a few of our efforts, unfortunately it doesn't look like I have a phot of my fab battenburgh cake that i made for DS a couple of years back, it must be sitting on the external hard drive in the garage, it was a victoria sponge with a square hole cut out of the centre and a whole battenburgh inserted then the whole thing was covered with marzipan and decorated with sliced mini battenburghs.

 

Can't wait to see others.

[Daphne]

I'm most impressed with your pannettone and hot x buns - they look so professional (and I love to eat them)

[Lavenders_Blue]

That is one delicious looking Black Forest Gateau! I have not had BFG for years and I now have a real hankering for some

[The Dogmother]

Wooo, way to go Liz!

[chickencam]

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8043/8093457777_7ef92a5da8_m.jpg

 

Because I have had the hard drive out and copied all of my old photos over to my laptop I though I would post a photo of my Battenburgh birthday cake that i made for DS in 2011, it is not as good as I remember it but he loved it and still mentions it.

[chickencam]

Has any one else got anything to show and tell?

 

OH and I had a bake off on Saturday afternoon, I made a coffee and walnut cake and OH made a carrot cake, he preferred his and I preferred mine, the children are too scared to choose, they just eat up like good boys and girls.