The GIANT JAFFA CAKE!

Going an entire 2 weeks without baking even a single cookie threw me into a sugarless hole that I will never enter into again I tell you! Never!

I think my White Chocolate Blackberry Crumble Cake was what did it. I consumed my entire month's recommended allowance of sugar in one cake. Not that I regret a single mouthful!

But a very special occasion this week broke my cold turkey cake ban...
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White Chocolate & Blackberry Crumble Cake

I baked a cake that wouldn't fit in our fridge.

So we had to eat it all.

And eat it all we did :)
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Birthday Cake #2 Fresh Strawberry Cake

Sooo the reason I decided to start writing fitness posts on The Betty Stamp was to counteract the cake consumption associated with a baking blog. But now that I've decided to bake two birthday cakes on the trot I'm a little unsure as to where that leaves me....

It probably leaves me in dire need of running marathons to work off the calories.
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Birthday Cake #1 Crushed Oreo Cake :: ft The Magic Baking Tin

Whoever invented the Oreo was a ruddy clever human with impeccable taste in biscuits *heads to google* Sam Porcello! I salute you Mr Porcello!

Not to blow my own trombone or anything (that is exactly what I'm about to do) but I baked two birthday cakes this weekend and they were up there with the tastiest cakes I've made so far (mainly due to the freakishly fantastic frosting!) The winner still being the Crushed Crunchie Marble Cake, but I've found that if you whack an Oreo on anything you're bound to win hearts. And more to the point, if you combine an Oreo with buttercream.....well, taste buds are guna be a-tingling!
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