Scores on the Doors

After a very successful visit from Environmental Health I am pleased to say I have a Food Hygiene Rating of 5, which is the best you can get. Woo Me

Another busy afternoon/evenings work

All four cakes/gateau ready and waiting to be packaged up and delivered
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Victoria Sponge with homemade strawberry jam and freshly whipped double cream
Chocolate Sponge with chocolate buttercream filling and chocolate fudge icing
Coffee and Walnut cake with Coffee and Walnut buttercream icing
Lemon Gateau, Layers of Lemon Sponge with Lemon Cream Cheese and Lemon curd filling topped with Lemon flavoured whipped cream

Cakes for the Hooe Golf Club Fun Day

Now where can you go wrong with a Victoria Sponge, with homemade strawberry jam and lightly sweetned whipped double cream

Chocolate sponge with chocolate buttercream icing topped with a dark chocolate fudge icing with chocolate gratings 

The two cakes boxed up and ready to go to the Hooe Golf Club Society fun day (excuse for a piss up)

Gooseberry and Cherry Tart

What to do when you've been given a glut of Gooseberries and Cherries
Make them into a tart no less
This was a recipe I found online from another blogger Lily and Chew http://lilyandchew.blogspot.com/2007/07/gooseberry-tart-to-warm-glastonbury.html

I just added some cherries in place of some of the gooseberries, and it did taste rather good even if I do say so myself. A few mini versions went out as samples but this main one got sold and the reviews were pretty good.

The pastry I used was a very sweet pastry with icing sugar on its own it tasted very biscuit like and my dad enjoyed finishing off the ragged pieces from the edges.

All in all a very good tart

All in an afternoon's work

Here we have
* 8 Strawberry Tarts
* 1 Triple Chocolate Gateau
* 1 Raspberry Layer Cake
* 1 Coffee and Walnut

Let's see how this Friday turns out.................

Triple Chocolate Gateau

This cake is absolutely amazing, although it is very rich so I recommend only a small slice at a time, It consists of chocolate sponge, filled with white chocolate whipped cream and covered in a chocolate fudge cream icing.

I first made this cake for my friend Joanne for her birthday, she called the dark chocolate outer icing "sexual chocolate" I then revisited the cake a few years later for my Grandads Birthday and then again most recently as a big thank you to a friend of the family who has been very generous in helping me set up my kitchen.

It must have been good because a friend of hers tried it and has ordered one for his wife's birthday but with milk chocolate covering instead of plain chocolate, I'll let you know how it turns out.

Coffee and Walnut Cake

This is a variation of a recipe from once again Fiona Cairns, the only difference is I use walnuts she uses hazlenuts. I have also increased the quantity of ingredients used,  hence this cake is so big the cake display stand had to be altered. In fact it has got bigger each time I have made it. May have to start using a bigger tin