Cake!

I had multiple friend-birthdays in the last couple weeks so I decided a birthday cake was in order. Siobhan was already having us ladies over for tea and cookies on Sunday so I invited myself over early to bake. Also, she has this awesome mixer that made the whole process much easier and more exciting.
I whipped up a vegan chocolate cake from Vegan with a Vengence. The recipe uses coffee to keep it moist and not too much oil or sugar. It was very nice and moist and chocolatey with out being too overwhelmingly sweet.
Look at that mixer go!
The cakes went in the oven. Meanwhile I mixed up some lemon "cream cheese" icing from the Vegan Cupcakes Take-Over the World book. I used a bit of extra cream cheese to make it a bit less sweet.
The cakes came out of the oven and went on to the balcony to cool. How classic.As usual I managed to break one of the layers. That's what icing is for though and the end result looked not too bad and tasted amazing!I would also like to take this opportunity to introduce Siobhan, the lovely lady holding the cake above. She will hopefully be blogging it up on here at some point. For tea she made a tasty leek and potato soup:And some cute shortbread:
Okay, Siobhan, you have been introduced, now blog it up!