This is my new go-to recipe for chocolate cake. It is moist, intense, velvety and so delicious. I used it for this cake and this cake, and several other cakes that I either forgot to photograph or haven’t posted about yet. It originates from the Confetti Cakes Cookbook, and is …
Author: Miss Overballe
Wedding cake with beech leaves
A couple of weeks ago, my friend got married. It was a beautiful late spring wedding, it was warm and sunny, the church was lovely and the reception was held in an old train station (which my husband loved) decorated with beech branches. I had been asked to bring the …
Robot Chemistry Wedding Cake
So, I think I promised you a post on the recent wedding cake I made. The bride and groom had requested chocolate, raspberry and caramel as flavours and had given me free hands to
Christening Cake vol. II
This cake was made for some good friends, for the christening of their little daughter. The cake was fun to make, I got to play around with my airbrush – it is a bit nerve-wrecking to stencil directly on a covered cake! The pictures are not great, they were taken …
Christening Cake
A few weeks before Christmas, my friend asked me if I would make a cake for her baby boy’s christening. Of course I jumped to the chance to decorate a cake, and she decided on
Dessert Caviar (and my first ever video)
Christmas is almost upon us, so now it is time to think of New Years eve, more specifically, the dessert! If you need a show-stopper dessert detail, dessert caviar is your best friend. It is easy to make, looks complicated, pretty, versatile and you don’t need any fancy, expensive equipment.
Spice cake, December thoughts and (lack of) snow
December is halfway through, and I haven’t posted here for about a month. It is not that I don’t bake and it is not that I don’t want to blog,
Meeting Don Rosa
As I talked about in my last post, I am a huge Don Rosa fan, he is by far my favourite “duck-drawer”! This weekend he guested Art-Bubble in Copenhagen, and when I found out (roughly a year ago) I marked the weekend in my calendar, determined to try to meet …
Don Rosa Cookies
By the time this post goes live, I should be standing in line, waiting to see Don Rosa at the Art Bubble Comic Festival in Copenhagen. I have loved Don Rosas stories since I was a child, and his collected works have a place in our living room bookcase
Liquorice Swirl Muffins
My colleagues have discovered that being in the vicinity of me, often means being in the vicinity of cake. Recently, I brought giant Liquorice Swirl Muffins to the office, and one of my colleagues proclaimed that I was the world champion of cake-baking. I am very much aware that I am …