Easter Baking

Flourless Chocolate Cake

I am not one for really celebrating Easter, I am not a religious person so Easter to me is a time to spend with family I refuse to become trapped in the commercialism of it all and in my opinion kids get WAY to much chocolate. So instead of buying eggs this Easter weekend i thought I would do some baking with a chocolate theme.

First stop was a Flourless Chocolate cake. This is really really yum and well worth the time. the finished cake is not all the appealing its a bit small looking but taste's amazing its like a brownie very moist and with a great texture due to the almond meal. I topped it off with some fresh whipped cream and fresh strawberries. a really lovely cake. i think next time i may try and tweak the recipe and make it bigger. Click here for recipe

Whoopie Pies

Next were Whoopie Pies. Apparently they are an Amish treat. I just had to make these. They were going to be bright red but I ran out of food dye so they just became chocolate. SO YUM very moist rich chocolate kind of cake/cookie. with a vanilla cream cheese butter cream. these were such a hit, all my family loved them.

Cupcakes

I was lying in bed Easter Sunday morning thinking to myself I need to be making cupcakes today. I was thinking Vanilla Buttercake With a chocolate cream frosting with a maltezer to top it off.

After trying an new vanilla cupcake recipe and failing miserably as i was then short on time I then had to try and find a shop and as terrible as this is i bought a packet mix, Greens buttercake, but you know it was divine the cakes were lovely. The icing was some left over whipped cream i had from the flourless chocolate cake so i whipped it up with some icing sugar and cocoa. it was just heaven, really lovely. I must say i am very proud of these little critters.

This weekends baking was bought to you from the gorgeous Pink Kitchen Aide that was on lend to me from my dear friend and I have to say those things rock. I borrowed it to see what all the hoo haa was about and to convince my dear husband that I need one I have to say I am SOLD SOLD SOLD. I think I may be getting the Almond Cream version for my birthday, these things are a amazing so effortless and wonderful to use and not as noisy as i was expecting it to be.


We also had some great news this weekend. My brother finally asked his wonderfull Girlfriend to become his wife such great news we all love her she is just a fantastic girl. so Guess who is making an engagement and wedding cake?? ME YAY so excited.

And just to top of my fab Easter weekend yesterday We bought a new Fridge YAAAAAAYYYYYYY a 520 litre fisher and paykel upside down fridge. I am so excited we currently only have a small fridge that has broken shelves, So I am just over the moon. Hopefully she will be delivered this weekend or early next week YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Brett
xxoo