This is my super simple Prize Winning Blue Ribbon Chocolate Cake recipe, this amazing recipe helped me win heaps of first prize ribbons at the Royal Melbourne Show & various Country Shows too.  It's the perfect recipe for a large cake or cupcakes, it's soft,  moist & keeps for a week, I actually thinks it better a day or 2 after its been baked.


Blue Ribbon Chocolate Cake Recipe
Oven Temp 160 C (325 F)
24cm round - Cooking time 1hr
24 cup cakes - Cooking time 25-30min

Ingredients
2 cups plain flour
1 tablespoon of baking powder
1 teaspoon instant coffee
2/3 cup coco powder
185gm butter softened
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 ¾ cups of castor sugar
3 eggs (60’s)
1 cup of water

Prepare you cake tin or cup cake trays
Place all of the ingredients in the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix together slowly to combine all the ingredients then slowly turn the speed up to high beat on high until mixture is pale & has doubled in volume.
Pour mixture in to cake tin or fill cupcake liners 3/4 full
Place in the oven and bake for required time or until an inserted knife comes out clean.

Let me know what you think :)
♥Kerri

Ombre - Graduated Colour

Ombre is a massive colour/style trend at the moment, whether it be hair colour, cakes, nails even homewares.
You see this colour graduation in nature all the time, my favorite is the way hydrangeas fade from dark to light.
I really think flowers do it best. Oh & sunsets they do it really well too, I guess sunrises too but I don't do  mornings very often, so I'll let you be the judge of that.
There are some awesome tutorials on the web that show you how to achieve this effect.
These pic are from pintrest.com
 ♥ Kerri

From greenweddingshoes.com

 from pintrest

Ombre cake

Ombre hair natural

 

 Ombre Hair

 Ombre Tablecloth

Cookies, Biscuits and Small Cakes

You can order these yummy biscuits from me. Kerri Anastasia
They will also be available at the next The Handmade Show

Raspberry Friand Gluten free

Monte Carlo

Yo-yo with lemon butter cream

 This just a little teaser of what I have to offer.
♥ Kerri

The BEST Baked Cheese Cake EVER

This is the BEST baked cheese cake EVER. The Blueberries were yummy too.
I'll post the recipe later.

Let them Eat Cake

Have a slice of cake. Black Forest, Chocolate Mud or Banana with Lemon Butter icing.
Enjoy X Kerri