My mum’s easy chocolate cake recipe

This is the chocolate cake I’ve been eating all my life. This cake was the basis for all of my own birthday cakes as a child. It is now the basis for my kids’ birthday cakes – including the recent construction ‘digger’ cake for The 4YO. This cake is the first thing I learned to […]

Ideas for Easter-themed birthday parties

Do you have a little boy or little girl celebrating their birthday around Easter? Kids birthdays are a very special time indeed. To give you some inspiration for theming your child’s Easter birthday party, I have compiled some ideas for you. Firstly, Easter colours are typically a pastel palette. So, think about producing some special […]

Chocolate Christmas Trees recipe

These cake-based Chocolate Christmas Trees – from Annabel Karmel – make for the perfect Christmas day dessert for all of the family. Here’s the recipe …

Awesome but easy birthday cakes for children

If a little time-traveling fairy visited me 10 years ago to tell me that in the future I would have three children and would willingly spend a whole day baking and decorating a birthday cake for them, I would have laughedat the fairy. Then I would have asked it to give me the lotto numbers. Except I wouldn’t because I