Fancy birthday desserts

Slice of Double Chocolate Mousse Cake

These mini chocolate cakes are rich, decadent, and incredibly easy to make! Perfect for parties or a delightful treat at home, each bite is a chocolate lover's dream.

Assemble shortcakes just before service. They do not keep well once the sugared strawberries are added to the shortcake.

A chocolate cake for serious cake lovers...a dark, moist fudge cake with sweet and salty salted caramel buttercream, salted caramel sauce and oozing dark chocolate ganache... Sweet gods of sugar! Sometimes, it's best to go the healthy option. It's better to get the salad than the burger. It's better to get the fruit salad than the full, big brekky. Hold the butter, get the skim milk, no chips and no dessert. And then, sometimes it's best to seriously indulge. And this cake is for those…

This Blackberry Opera Torte, which I have dubbed Diva Cake, is super tall with lots of layers of almond sponge, blackberry buttercream, chocolate ganache and meringue. Find it in my cookbook, Zoe Bakes Cakes.

This recipe is an amalgam of research from Daring Bakers, Semi Swede, Martha Stewart, with my own pastry elements. It makes one large 9-inch cake. This is an intermediate baking project, which means you need to know the basics of making a successful sponge cake that has no chemical leavens. This recipe has been edited 2/19/23 for easier assembly. I believe it is now approachable for most home bakers. I've also added a video to the blog post for action assembly of this cake. I think it will…