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Ok so sometimes I make a little more than just cake but I love creating and sharing it with you here
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Orange Blossom Almond Cakes, Salted Honey Buttercream, and Orange Curd

July 24, 2017

I was skeptical that the effort wouldn't be worth it.  Hindsight is a glorious mistress and I am legit so glad I spent an hour and a half of my life in peak traffic trying to acquire orange blossom water.  

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Tags Cake, wee cakes, cakelets, small cakes, orange curd, salted caramel, salted honey, orange, almond cake, cardamom, orange blossom, orange blossom almond cakes with salted honey and orange curd
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Lemony Courgette Cake with Goats Cheese Buttercream and Lemon Drizzle

May 4, 2016

I collect cookbooks. I love them. I love the pages and pages filled with possibilities and pretty pictures. I have about 40 of them. Excessive? Probably, but it doesn’t stop me wanting more. I remember learning in a food history paper I once took that we buy cookbooks because we are wooed by the lifestyle portrayed in them. Effortless entertaining, overflowing laughter and platter upon platter of the most delectable food. They give the idea that this author lives the most sociable and fabulous of lifestyles and is of course the most popular of all his or her friends.

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Tags Cake, Layered, courgette cake, goats cheese, cream cheese icing, layer cake, naked cake, Tessa Huff, Lemon, lemony courgette cake with goats cheese buttercream and lemon drizzle
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Birthday Cake

August 9, 2015

The problem with making cakes is that you need people to eat them. My flatmates and I will get through maybe about a third of a cake max before we lose interest or fear our sugar intake has exceeded the yearly maximum to eat too much more. I got invited to a friend's 25th birthday gathering and leapt at the opportunity to celebrate with cake!

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Tags Cake, chocolate cake, chocolate, Layer Cake, drizzle cake, ganache, birthday cake, macarons, meringue
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Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Salted Caramel

May 30, 2015

Happy 31st of May. It is a bittersweet day. As of tomorrow aka the first of June, I shall be giving up all things deemed to be junk food in the name of Junk Free June. Gasp!!! How is this possible??? Sophie, give up cake? And ice cream? No, not the ice cream!!!

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Tags Junk Free June, Chocolate cake, Chocolate and beetroot cake, Beetroot, Salted caramel, Cake, Little and Friday, Chocolate, Sophie Likes Cake
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Caramel Popcorn Cake

May 16, 2015

I found some good caramel popcorn on the cheap a while back. It had been sitting in my cupboard for a month or so and I really wanted to make use of it. Clear Sophie logic meant that the best way to use this popcorn would to be make an entire four layer cake to act as a serving platter for this meagre bag of popcorn. Seriously, that is what went through my head a few weeks ago. 

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Tags Cake, caramel, Salted caramel, butter cake, Italian meringue buttercream, Popcorn Cake, popcorn, dessert
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Lemon Syrup Loaf

August 29, 2014

New Zealand Fashion Week. I am so glad you are over now.

My Instagram feed can’t take it anymore. Zambesi this, Stolen Girlfriends Club that. I’m just sitting here in some old frayed Glassons shorts that are held together with a safety pin feeling like a hobo. Not even a cool hobo but like an actual poor person.

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Tags Cake, Little and Friday, Lemon, Lemon syrup cake, Lemon loaf, Loaf, Winter
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Lemon and Coconut Cakes

July 12, 2014

I was thinking. Dangerous I know. Especially for a woman ha.

But after a frustrating time at work, a pep talk from my Dad and discovering the best YouTube channel ever (search Anna Akana), I felt like I had a lot of thoughts that needed to be caught and tied down somewhere.

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Tags Little and Friday, Kim Evans, Coconut, Lemon, Cake, small cakes, cupcake, lemon curd, lemon and coconut cakes
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Chocolate Birthday Cake (with white chocolate buttercream)

June 9, 2014

Quite often people ask me for a good birthday cake recipe. I often refer them towards my trusty crowd pleasing chocolate cake recipe. It's moist, keeps for days and can be smothered in either buttercream or ganache to produce excellent results. 

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Tags Cake, Chocolate cake, chocolate, birthday, ombre, white chocolate buttercream
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Peanut Butter and Jam Cake

May 18, 2014

It was one particularly hangry night when my brother, Jack sensed the first signs of danger (they were pretty blatant) and in the fear for his and his girlfriend's safety, shoved a peanut butter and three berry jam sandwich in my face whilst I was driving home. Within three bites I was close to my normal and semi pleasant self again. Slash not really, but at least everyone would get out of the car at our destination in one piece. 

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Tags Cake, peanut butter and jam, peanut butter and jam cake, Ripe: A fresh batch, Layer Cake, vanilla cake
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Feijoa Upside-down Cake

May 3, 2014

I was tying to think of some deep and meaningful to say in this post but when I got down to the crux of it I realised I only made this cake because I am somewhat obsessed and had nothing else to do on this Saturday morning. The other girls on the flat had their significant others to distract them but not me, I had cake.

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Tags Cake, Ripe Recipes, Feijoa, Upside-down cake, Feijoa upside-down cake
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Recipe number 40 is rather special. A week ago today Nana left this earth. To celebrate her life we all gathered in Matamata and of course there was afternoon tea. The Aunties and I all made something of hers. I was on cheesecakes. Welsh cheesecakes
Dylan and I made this @katherine_sabbath stunner yesterday to celebrate Chris’ birthday. Needless to say it went down an absolute treat 🍳🌽🍡
Apologies for the crap photos but I’d like to share the recipe for this family favourite. I’ve written about Dad’s favourite veggie casserole over on TheSupperClubKitchen.com under recipes worth sharing. It’s 90s nostalgia at
We’ve always seen making our own croissants as a pretty daunting task. I feel like there is a lot of mystique around their making that only trained experts can get their heads around. Since we had little else to do we (Dylan) decided to give ma
Proud as punch for actually completing 
@bonappetitmag’s best ever bread recipe. It only took us three days but we’re here. Having this tonight with Ima’s chicken soup. Just call me Henny Penny.
Dylan put some words together about the long lunch we cooked ourselves last weekend. You can find it over on thesupperclubkitchen.com

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    Thai Inspired Slaw Salad https://t.co/5hcHE04G4F
    Nov 16, 2015, 12:05 AM
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    Praise @CriticTeArohi for finally raising all that is scary about #fitspo!
    Apr 8, 2015, 3:36 AM
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    RT @JamieLowryMe: Hi @Sophie_edo! I made your banoffee cupcakes today!! Still working on my icing but they taste incredible! #thankyou http://t.co/qIg3w4tbfu
    Mar 20, 2015, 6:49 AM

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