Quick red birthday cake

A new (cake baking) year has begun, and I have a great many cakes planned (optimism is a virtue, or?). So to get things going I kicked the year off by bringing a birthday cake to the office, I'm afraid that Mr. Eddie Spence would not be impressed by the piping work, but it tasted absolutely wonderful (chocolate, hazelnuts, butter, sugar, eggs, 25g (!) of flour and an orange/ginger syrup).

Christmas cake 4 - 2013

...and this one was for my friends next door:

Christmas cake 3 - 2013

This was for my cousin and his family:

Christmas cake 2 - 2013

It didn't snow this December, but my friend Henriette and her son (my Godson!!!!) and the rest of her family deserved a snowy Christmas cake:

Christmas cake 1 - 2013

Have I mentioned before, that I really love Christmas?

Carrot cake

Made for my friend William who is surprisingly fond of carrot cake.

Princess cake

In my house there lives a very determined and forceful young lady, who as early as April announced that I was going to make her a princess out of cake with flowers and stars for her birthday in August, and even though I came home from a holiday in Monaco the evening before the big day (she turned 5), I didn't have the heart (or the guts) to go back on my promise. So, I cheated and bought the Barbie-looking topper and ignored the rather uneven finish - and she just loved it (some things are so simple).