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The Caker
www.thecaker.co.nz
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My name is Jordan Rondel and I love to bake cakes. Each week I bake a specialty cake and anyone in Auckland can order one.
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Black Dorris Plum and Rhubarb Cake

I came up with this recipe after seeing some rhubarb at the French Markets in Parnell and remembering how much I used to love it when my grandma cooked it for me. Id have it on top of muesli, or for ...

19 apr 12

Things Ive made this week...

 The most delicious chocolate chip cookies Ive ever eaten. I know they dont sound that exciting, but you have to try them so the recipe follows. Once a month I will be doing in-store cake d...

04 apr 12

Things Ive made this week...

Organic almond butter thumbprint cookiesAs you can see, Im really into using fresh flowers to decorate my cakes of late. I like the juxtaposition between the mean skulls and the pretty flowers. Im al...

30 mar 12

Coming soon....

To be explained!

26 mar 12

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Caker has moved into Eightthirty!

Eightthirtys first cake: a red velvetThe coffee roasting machineGlennMy amazing new commercial oven which cooks 8 cakes in about 20 minutes!I have officially moved The Caker into the boutique coffee ...

19 mar 12

Things Ive made this week...

Some GF flourless dark chocolate and raspberry cakes for Ponsonby market day. A rich espresso cake. Mango curd, which is a must try so I have included the recipe below... Honey sweeten...

18 mar 12

Things Ive made this week...

Gluten free cupcakes adorned with hazelnut praline, crushed pistachios and Belgian white chocolate buttonsA red velvet cake just cos it was FridayA fig and raspberry cake with fresh figs from my frie...

11 mar 12

Multi-coloured cupcakes for Ice Watch launch

Showroom 22 asked me to make cupcakes for their Ice Watch launch today. They are individually boxed GF flourless dark chocolate cupcakes topped with cream cheese icing coloured with freeze dried frui...

29 feb 12

Things Ive made this week...

 A 2 tiered wedding cake with Dahlias A 3 tiered pink and orange 21st cake A couple of cakes styled on Rachel Carly plates for a Tessuti photo shoot A deathly chocolate birthday c...

22 feb 12

Valentines Day at Two Hands Tattoo

Tomorrow is Valentines Day and I have made a limited number of mini bleeding cakes, which I will be selling at my boyfriend Stefans shop, Two Hands Tattoo (127a Ponsonby Rd). They are of the red velv...

13 feb 12

You could win this ULTIMATE hamper of love for you or your Valentine

Comme des Garcons fragrance set from Fabric Kathryn Wilson heels Deadly Ponies zebra wallet Bleeding red velvet heart cake by meVouchers and goodies from Lucy and the Power RoomA Boh R...

09 feb 12

BE MY VALENTINE

Valentines Day is in our midst so Ive decided to do something special! The Caker is giving you the chance to give or receive the ULTIMATE gift of love! Weve got an amazing bundle of goodies to give a...

08 feb 12

Things Ive made this week...

A two tiered gf flourless dark chocolate wedding cake An extra sticky date cake for my good friend Sams birthdayA chocolate batman cake for a little boys birthdayA batch of baby cakes for a mums...

05 feb 12 1 person likes this

Pretty in Purple

Yesterday I made this 2 tiered flourless dark chocolate cake with purple buttercream, purple flowers and blueberries.

28 jan 12

Amys wedding at Mantells

I made another array of small cakes, as opposed to the big traditional tiered wedding cake, for Amy and Jasons wedding. She looks SO beautiful!! Photos by Jo Currie (www.jocurrie.com).

23 jan 12 1 person likes this

Wedding buffet

For Jens wedding she wanted an array of cakes rather than one big one. I really likes this idea of a cake buffet because it means everyone gets to try something different and they look pretty special...

20 jan 12

Mr Greggles cake

This cake was ordered for a boss who apparently was not going to be too pleased when he opened the box to see a pink cake with Mr Greggles written on it

11 jan 12

The best vegan coconut cake

Today I made the most delicious smelling coconut cake which you would never guess was vegan. Not only is it reasonably healthy and low fat but it has a really lovely texture and flavour, despite cont...

10 jan 12

Wedding Cakes

 3 tiered lemon and raspberry cake with organic lemon curdRed velvet cake with white chocolate cream cheese icing

09 jan 12

Its wedding season!

I love making wedding cakes and this month Im doing 10 of them. Its such an honour to be involved in someones special day in this way. In the future I think Id like to specialise in making wedding ca...

05 jan 12

Louis Vuitton and Sundaes

Images / tokyodandyI hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and new year!!

02 jan 12

New things

My sister got back from Tokyo yesterday and she gave me these wacky KitKats. The flavours include strawberry, jasmine green tea, normal green tea...and melon, which sounds revolting, but interesting....

23 dec 11

Cake Stand Evening

Thanks to my talented buddies Scrap Wall and Luke Jacomb, tonights collaboration was a success. Luke is a glass blower who created these beautiful cake stands, all unique and hand made, and I baked c...

21 dec 11

My top baking tips

 Image: broadsheetSo blog updates have been a bit scarce lately because Ive been overseas in Tokyo and Melbourne. Ive been having the time of my life and Ive dedicated part of each day to going ...

17 dec 11 1 person likes this

Melbourne!

 Portugese custard tart David Jones fruit and yogurt  Cherry chocolate slicePanforte Amazing lolly shop Glaceed fruit  Babka on Brunswick Street, FitzroyPretty plat...

17 dec 11

Mmmmm

My beautiful friend Clare has arrived in Tokyo and this is one of the first meals we had together. It was the biggest bowl of noodles I have ever faced, but I still had room for something sweet after...

04 dec 11

More sweets from Tokyo

Banana gratin with custardBaked cheesecakeCarrot and walnut cake

03 dec 11

Incredible plastic display cakes

These display cakes speak for themselves; they seriously look just as edible as the real ones. The bakery is called Berry Parlour and I would have tried every cake if I could, but a slice costs somet...

01 dec 11

Tokyo does everything better

We ate lunch at Muji, which is the most amazing stationary shop + everything else in the entire world shop. For a sweet snack I got a banana and chocolate and a chestnut cream pastry. At Muji, y...

30 nov 11

Words floating round in my head

Medieval feasts, fortune tellers, witch craft, papacy, kings and queens, magic spells, ghouls and demons, candy floss, raspberry sauce, custard, caramel, honey, dark chocolate, red wine, cream, all t...

27 nov 11

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