Gluten-free Victoria sandwich cake love letters

Gluten-free Victoria sandwich love letter cakes (makes 12 letter cakes)

Ingredients

• 150g butter
• 150g caster sugar
• 1tsp vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon gluten-free baking powder
• 150g gluten-free self raising flour
• 3 tablespoons milk
• Icing sugar
• 4tbsp strawberry jam
• Whipping cream

What you will need

• Love Letters cake mould

Cooking instructions

1. Preheat oven to 165C/325F
2. Grease letter mould and place on baking tray
3. Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy
4. Beat in eggs one at a time
5. Beat in vanilla essence
6. Fold in the sifted flour and baking powder
7. Slowly beat in milk
8. Spoon or pipe cake mixture into moulds
9. Bake for about 15 mins until skewer comes out clean
10. Leave to cool in moulds
11. Then turn out cakes onto a chopping board
12. Using a bread knife, cut cake letters in half width ways
13. Divide jam between the bottom half of the letter cakes and spread evenly across cakes
14. Whip the cream until stiff peaks form and fill piping bag fitted with a star nozzle
15. Pipe a layer of cream on top of jam covered cakes
16. Place top half of cakes on top of jam
17. Lightly dust with sieved icing sugar

Tip: I use Wiltons cake release to grease my moulds, but brush it on and use very sparingly

I also couldn't resist making some chunky chocolate letters using my new love letters mould from Bombay Duck, method same as chocolate lollipops.




Don't forget to enter my Bombay Duck giveaway!

Have a sweet day!

Gluten-free Victoria sandwich heart cakes

Happy Valentine's day!

Gluten Free Victoria sandwich cakes (makes 16 small hearts cakes)

Ingredients

• 150g butter
• 150g caster sugar
• 1tsp vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon gluten free baking bowder
• 150g gluten free self raising flour
• 3 tablespoons milk
• Icing sugar
• 4tbsp strawberry jam
• Whipping cream

What you will need

• Love hearts cupcake cases set

Cooking instructions

1. Preheat oven to 165C/325F
2. Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy
3. Beat in eggs one at a time
4. Beat in vanilla essence
5. Fold in the sifted flour and baking powder
6. Slowly beat in milk
7. Spoon or pipe cake mixture into cases
8. Bake for about 15 mins until skewer comes out clean
9. Leave to cool in moulds
10. Once cool, turn out cakes onto a chopping board
11. Using a bread knife, cut cakes in half width ways
12. Place bottom halves of cake back in moulds
13. Divide jam between the cakes and spread evenly across cakes
14. Whip the cream until stiff peaks form and fill piping bag fitted with a star nozzle.
15. Pipe a layer of cream on top of jam covered cakes
16. Place top half of cakes on top of jam
17. Lightly dust with sieved icing sugar

Don't forget to enter yesterday's Bombay Duck giveaway!

Have a sweet day!

Bombay Duck: A review and £50 giveaway

I was recently sent two Love Bird Cups & Saucers, a Miss Darcy Two Tier Cake Stand in white with gold spots, Love Heart Cake Set and Love Letter Cake Moulds from the sweet peeps at Bombay Duck. How exciting!

With Valentine's day just around the corner, I decided to make gluten-free Victoria sandwich cakes to fill my new moulds with. I love how they turned out and the moulds were super easy to use. I melted and coloured white chocolate to make some chunky chocolate love letters, too.

I adore the mint colour of the love birds cups and saucers and the little bird hiding at the bottom of the tea cup is so cute! They come packaged in their own pretty pink box. The gorgeous gold spot cake stand also comes in a pretty pink box and can be dismantled for storage.

I am pleased to announce a giveaway of a £50 voucher for Bombay Duck.

To enter, please visit Bombay Duck, and then leave a comment below this post letting me know what you would spend your voucher on. The giveaway ends on Monday, February 27th 2012 at 10pm (GMT) and I will randomly select and announce a winner on Tuesday, February 28th.

To increase your chances of winning this fabulous prize, you can gain one additional entry for doing each of the following:

• tweeting about this giveaway
• blogging about it
• following the Torie Jayne blog
• following Torie Jayne on Twitter

For the first two, please leave a comment below with the link to your tweet or blog post.

This giveaway is open to UK readers only.

Good luck and have a sweet day!

Sweet Hearts

This week on Flickr Faves Sunday, with Valentine's day just around the corner, I bring you sweet love hearts!

Some beautiful shots from my Flickr favourites:

• The crafty decoration in still life | love me by Margherita Calati Photography
• The paper hearts in IMG_8382 by nadia ☆ bolshakova
• The brilliance of A forest of pink hearts by MayaLee
• The yummy looking marshmallow Sweet hearts... by Lady Haddon

Have a sweet day!

Cherry Cheesecake

Cherry Cheesecake (makes 6 jars)

Ingredients

• 8 gluten free digestive biscuits
• 100g unsalted (sweet) butter
• 400g cream cheese
• 600ml double (heavy) cream
• 6 tbsp icing (powdered) sugar
• Juice of 1/2 lemon
• 1 tbsp vanilla essence
• 300g cherries, pitted
• 2 tbsp caster or superfine sugar
• 1 tbsp water

What you will need

• Small glass jars

Cooking instructions

1. Place digestives in a bag and crush by rolling a rolling pin back and forth over the bag until you are left with crumbs
2. In a small saucepan, melt the butter, remove from heat and stir in digestive crumbs
3. Divide crumb mixture between the jars and press down lightly with the end of a wooden spoon or teaspoon
4. Whip double cream until stiff peaks form
5. In a separate bowl whisk cream cheese, icing sugar, lemon juice and vanilla extract until smooth
6. Fold whipped cream into cream cheese mix
7. Fill biscuit based jars with cream cheese mixture
8. Place in fridge
9. Blend cherries in a blender until you have a puree
10. Place cherries, water and sugar in a pan and heat on medium heat until cherries begin to soften and sugar has dissolved
11. Place in cup to cool
12. Spoon cherry mix on to individual cheesecakes
13. Leave in fridge until ready to serve

Here they are on my dessert tower


Have a sweet day!

My wooden ribbon spools

I have been pretty busy over the past few weeks busily trying to organize all my trims and craft bits and bobs. Here is a peak at the ribbons I have been wrapping around my new wooden spools.

Have a sweet day!

Wooden spools from Jane Means. Bird folklore ribbon from Panduro Hobby

Hotel Chocolat Valentines Giveaway Winner

My contest ended yesterday and I just picked a winner using random.org and I am delighted to announce the winner of the Hotel Chocolat giveaway is...

Lissy Lou, of the delightful blog Lissy Lou who loved Hotel Chocolat's thick chocolate hearts.

Please e-mail me your details.

Congratulations Lissy Lou, you will receive a box of Sealed with a Kiss chocolates

Thank you to all of you sweets that entered, to my loyal followers and new friends.

Have a sweet day!