Cakie goodness

Just for something different: a post entirely devoted to food. Not really surprising as Mark and I spent a fair whack of our time in the kitchen making various concoctions. I'm sure many of you have been subjected to our culinary attempts, and given that most of you lived to tell the tale they can't have been that bad.

We don't usually take photos of our creations, but over the past couple of months I've gathered a little collection of some; here is three of the tastiest or most interesting looking cakes:

This is a whole orange cake & almond cake with a white chocolate palisade that I made for Neil Kane's birthday. The title doesn't lie: it involves boiling a whole orange in a pot for an hour before blending it to a fine mush to add to the cake. Can't beat orange and white chocolate!

This was one of my cupcakes for Rosa's cupcake bake0ff (you can see the rest of the entries here: http://culinaryexplorationsnz.blogspot.com/2010/04/first-wellington-bake-off-cupcakes.html). It was entitled cupcakes squared, as it's a cake in a cup in a cake in a cup. Everything apart from the big cup is edible. I'm sure my grandma would be 'tickled' to see her coffee cup set used for such a purpose!

This is another set of cupcakes I made for Charles & Sally's flatwarming. They are banana & chocolate, topped with chocolate buttercream and either a rose, peace lily or daisy. Fair to say I spent the better part of a Saturday afternoon playing at moulding sugar paste...