Chocolate fudge cake (13 inch square)

This is the bottom cake of the three tiered wedding cake I’m making for Lorna.  I’ve never made such a huge cake with such huge quantities! Making it took most of the day as I had to leave the melted chocolate mixture – which filled a huge casserole pot – to cool for a good couple of hours!

Pumpkin chocolate muffins

We arrived home on Thursday from a wonderful holiday on the Greek island of Symi.  The need to dig out winter coats, hats, scarves and boots so we could take Doug the Pug for a walk, and one day back in a grey office on Friday left me with serious post-holiday blues!  This morning I decided the only way to cope was to embrace the onset of autumn with some baking – pumpkin muffins choc full of dark chocolate chunks.  These definitely put a smile back on my face!

Fruit cake (7 inch square)

I’ve been asked by my friend Debbie in work to make a three-tiered wedding cake for her friend Lorna’s wedding in October.  We’re about to go on holiday for a fortnight, so I decided to get a head start and make the fruit cake for the top tier before we leave.  I’m then going to give it to Debbie to cake sit for me, and feed it brandy every few days while we’re away!

Apple, pistachio and persimmon cake

A delicious, moreish, warm and cosy pudding of a cake this - made to use some apples from our friends Emma and Geraint's garden that I brought home after a lovely supper with them yesterday.