Tuesday, July 13, 2021
In The Pink Birthday Card
Sunday, July 11, 2021
Canned Meatloaf Burger with Mushroom Sauce, Budget Meal
Saturday, July 3, 2021
Pork Feet with Mushroom and black Bean Sauce, Lutong Pinoy
Thursday, June 24, 2021
5th Anniversary Wooden Log Celebration Cake
The theme for a fifth wedding anniversary is wood so when my husband and I were celebrating that particular milestone recently I decided to make a cake based on the theme. There are a lot of ways you could interpret ‘wood’ - after all a lot of different things are made of wood - but to me the obvious choice was a woodland theme and a wooden tree stump!
This cake has vertical layers running through it which makes it a bit different - because it’s actually a Swiss roll cake on its side!
The recipe and general design came from a blog called Top with Cinnamon. It’s actually very easy to make this delicious cake - you make two Swiss rolls, cut them vertically so you have four strips, and roll them all up around each other with frosting in between.
I didn’t make the coffee frosting in this recipe and instead added some cocoa powder as I wanted my daughter to have it and she’s too young for coffee (and probably wouldn’t like the taste anyway). I spread the ganache around the outside and on top and marked it with a fork to look like a tree trunk.
If I had more time to decorate I would have made woodland creatures out of icing but instead I used some mushroom shaped sweets (you can get these in most grocery shops) and made a ladybird, leaves and some tiny flowers out of icing (a flower plunger cutter made that last part very easy). Finally I added a ‘happy anniversary’ cake pick.
You can see the vertical layers when you slice into the cake - overall I’m really pleased with how the cake matches our anniversary theme!