We have all been anticipating the Royal Wedding that was this weekend, the dress, the flowers, the guests and of course, the wedding cake. We have both been waiting to see the lemon and elderflower wedding cake made by Claire Ptak from Violet Cakes in London and on Saturday that day came. The cake was […]
A very last minute festive post for you, the ultimate Christmas cheesecake. Cheesecake isn’t necessarily everyone’s go to cheesecake dessert but this one really is a good’un! the white chocolate and frosted berries both taste delicious and make it completely appropriate for this time of year (although it can definitely be made and eaten all […]
IT’S CHRISTMAS!!! 1st December has arrived and that can only mean one thing. Let the celebrations begin and the Christmas treats commence. We are kicking it off with a classic made Christmassy. Cupcakes. We have topped a regular chocolate cupcake with a peppermint frosting to create a ‘candy cane cupcake’. By adding red food colouring […]
Chocolate? Yes! Passion fruit? Yes! Chocolate and passion fruit cake?! Hell yes!! I’m sure most of you have heard of Lily O’Briens before, if not you’ve definitely been missing out! When they reached out to us asking if we wanted to create a recipe inspired by their dessert collection we knew that the hardest part […]
We love nothing more than converting much loved desserts into cake form! You may have seen that a couple weeks ago we posted a recipe for some seriously tasty lemon meringue pie macarons… well those lil beauties were to go on top of this lemon meringue pie cake! In order to truly encapsulate the tasty, […]
Swapping sherry for prosecco in our take on pudding week’s showstopper challenge! Pudding week is always a favourite of ours, and we had a real tough time choosing what bake to do this week, as the call of a steamed pudding is hard to resist. However, knowing that we’ve got at least 1 steamed pudding […]
We’ve been wanting to make a mille crepe for a while, so we whipped up a tiramisu flavoured one in time for international coffee day! Mille crepe is a French dessert, kind of like a cake made out of many layers of pancakes with a filling in between. Bringing together the French and Italian cultures, […]
It’s that time of year again, GBBO is back. We were initially worried that the new series would be different and it wouldn’t be the same, but after week one it’s safe to say we miss Mary B, but the wonderful Noel Fielding makes up for all the sadness and it’s honestly not that different. […]
Poached pears with chocolate sauce are a great combo so why not just bake poached pear inside a chocolate cake?! Oh and then pour chocolate sauce all over it of course… Soft pear encased in soft chocolate sponge and then smothered in thick warm chocolate sauce? It’s pretty much the perfect pudding! This is ideal […]
It’s Fri-yay and we are once again bringing in a Cadbury Creme Egg Bake! Today is another recipe from Rinkoff bakery and Cadbury’s collab, and we have saved the best for last. Creme Egg S’mores Brownies… Following on from our Passionfruit Creme Egg Meringues and Creme Egg Eclairs we have bought to you our favourite […]
What’s better than a classic apple crumble? When you add cake into the mix of course! And caramel… and custard… and ginger… We created this recipe alongside HelloFresh as part of their blog post about apple crumble recipes with a twist, make sure you check it out! And make sure to have a read of […]
A great layer cake for the festive period with christmassy flavours! We made this as an alternative to a traditional christmas cake. Now we’ve already established that we, here at Baking a Mess, don’t like christmas cake, we’ve got nothing against it.. just isn’t our thing. So last year we made an orange and cinnamon […]
A bundt cake just says christmas to us, so what can be more festive than a mulled wine bundt cake?! Any keen readers of the blog may notice this cake looks pretty similar to a bundt cake we did as part of our GBBO 2016 series, this yummy pink grapefruit drizzle. It was entirely unintentional, […]
This flavour combination is a bit summery for the beginning of october, but we wanted to go for a fruity flavour rather than something chocolate based. Regardless of the time of year, this peach, raspberry and elderflower roulade is a quick and delicious dessert! Okay, first things first, can we just call this what it […]
This week was pastry week, one of our faves. We were torn between a filo creation and the bakewell tart. But really, making our own filo pastry seemed like a lot of hard work, with ideas in mind we will probably return to that in the future and stick to the bakewell for now. We […]
We may have been talking about this non stop for the past week, but in case anyone’s missed it… the bake off is back! And along with it, comes our weekly bakes showcasing our take on the show’s challenges. The first week was cake week so here’s our signature drizzle cake, and guys… this one’s […]
So that magical time of year is upon (no not christmas), it’s bake off time! Once again we get to delight in Mary and Paul’s comical reactions to all kinds of weird and wonderful bakes, so in honour of this momentous occasion we’ve rounded up our favourite bake off moments from the past series. Like […]
We love nothing more than creating different and unique versions of classic british sweet treats, so when mentally preparing for the start of GBBO which is, of course, kicking off with cake week, we came up with these adorable victoria sponge macarons!! To capture the idea of the victoria sponge in a macaron, we treated the shells […]
We’ve been swept up along with rest of the world in olympic madness, and of course we had to do some Rio themed baking! So we whipped up this batch of mango coconut and lime cupcakes! We knew we wanted something with a tropical flavour but couldn’t settle on just one or two flavours, so […]
We’re making this cake for someone’s birthday, but the fruity flavours make it perfect for any summery celebration! (we really can find any celebratory excuse for cake, such as “it’s a wednesday”). When tasked with making a cake for someone who “isn’t much of a chocolate person” (we still question whether people that say this […]
We were going to make a classic madeleine today… but we had no lemons. So we were forced to make something a little more exciting, so opted for this delicious but delicate flavour combination. We went for a combination of earl grey tea and freshly picked lavender from the garden, we think these flavours work […]
So today we wanted to do some baking, because we were bored and what else is there to do? Something quick, something good – brownies? But not just ordinary brownies, how about brownies and blondies rippled together? Lets just stick in some caramel to the mix too! So we have used our recipe for Raspberry Blondies plus […]
So, for our Christmas party we decided on baking a Christmas cake alternative which was quicker and yummier, we aren’t huge fans of the traditional fruit cake. We chose to do a christmassy twist on our sticky toffee pudding cake using a hint of orange & cinnamon, covered in a brown sugar buttercream. First bake […]
Now that it’s getting into the holidays and Christmas is round the corner, it’s time to decorate your already baked and fed Christmas cake. If you’ve not made one yet, there’s still time, you just won’t have as long to feed and mature it. This post has the recipes for all the basic components of christmas […]
