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Celebration cakes and chocolate decals

This lady made a cake at work and it tasted amazing. I asked for the recipe and I was surprised to hear it was Nigella's Victoria Sponge from How to be a Domestic Goddess. I very rarely make anything from Nigella's cake book any more and never this sponge. Probably because it was a Victoria Sponge as well, for which I've used the Good Housekeeping book that my mum has had since the 80s. I think I messed up the temperature somewhat as it didn't taste as good though :( Just slightly tighter somehow. As it was Father's Day today I made it for him. Just cream, minimal fruit decorations etc. Parental approval all round.  I've been messing with chocolate lately and that's why it's got some leftover chocolate squiggle squares on top. The other little chocolate number I made was the below for my sister's colleague's birthday. They had a £5 kitty for a cake so I figured I'd experiment so she might get something nicer than a standard M&S tray b...

Some random bakes.

Nigella's pancakes with bacon and maple syrup from Feast (prefer the cottage cheese based ones to these banana "but don't taste of banana, yeah rite" pancakes.) James Martin from Saturday Kitchen's Buttermilk scones. Still my all time favourite recipe for scones because they don't make many and the buttermilk makes them lovely and soft.