Baked anything tasty lately?

Wedding cake!

Top tier is 9inches wide, 6 layers of vanilla sponge sandwiched with raspberry jam & Italian meringue buttercream.

Bottom tier is a 12inch chocolate biscuit cakes coated in white chocolate ganache.

Both tiers then covered in Italian meringue buttercream.

Macarons are just my usual standard almond shells and then filled with a salted caramel buttercream and a centre of gooey salted caramel.

The flowers & greenery are real and inserted with posy picks.

The gold foil and gold paint are edible too.

Cake topper is from Etsy, best value & quickest delivery i found while not being at all flimsy. It’s gold painted birch wood & can be requested to say anything you want. I’ve already purchased my own wedding cake topper from her too!

https://etsy.me/2Xa7ENu

Pecan Maple Cake. Also contains chopped dates and mashed bananas. Very nice and not too sweet!

My inner German has woken up and made me bake christmas biscuits last week. This year, there's the added challenge that they need to be sugar-free as my husband has been diagnosed with diabetes. It's a bit hit and miss - replacing sugar with xylitol works great in most cakes, but when it comes to pastry, chemistry suddenly takes note that you're trying to cheat and puts its foot down.

But I've made two successful batches, Spitzbuben (which translates as "naughty boys", no idea why) with sugarfree raspberry jam, and ginger and cardamom biscuits with lemon glazing

I've used this recipe to make Blaas's before - few ingredients, easy to make, and fairly quick.

I wanted the Blaa's to go with leftovers from a boiled ham. Great combination!

Rock Scones

Banana bread. A classic, but haven't made it in ages!

I bought a couple of bananas because I've suspected for a while that I have a food intolerance to them and wanted to experiment. Half a banana and an evening of abdominal pains later, I decided to turn the remaining one into banana bread (f-you banana!). My body can tolerate banana bread ok, maybe because I'm eating a smaller quantity of banana in one sitting or because it's different when it's cooked.

So when life gives you bananas, make banana bread!

Probably my final batch for this year, some pecan, chocolate and cinnamon biscuits. They turned out a bit unexpected - I had no idea that cassia can legally be sold as cinnamon these days! I'll have to make sure to read labels when buying the next packet.

So the taste isn't what I aimed for, but they're still tasty. And sugar free, of course.

I'm currently making brioche again. Does that count?

I'm never sure if making fudge counts as baking, but I'm counting it :P Panic stations when I had most of the ingredients in the pot, but my glucose liquid was well past it's best before date and had some cloudy lumps in it :/ Himself was sent on a wild goose chase around the supermarkets with no luck. Was trying to find out online about a possible substitute and someone mentioned honey. So I decided I'd nothing to lose at this point and gave it a go with a spoon of honey instead. Success :D All packaged up as Christmas presents... with a few bits leftover for ourselves :P

Thanks a mill! I do have other "real" presents to give too, so I don't know why I put this extra pressure on myself 😂🙈