OPI Sweet Heart

Honestly, this is THE BEST cake I’ve ever made. A rich and moist Guinness cake (that’s basically just a very dense chocolate cake), with a CREAM CHEESE FROSTING. This is going to be my birthday cake of choice from now on. Recipe by @nigellalawson 🙌 INGREDIENTS FOR CAKE 250ml Guinness 250g unsalted butter 75g cocoa powder 400g caster sugar 150ml sour cream 2 large eggs 1 tbsp vanilla extract 275g plain flour 2 ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda INGREDIENTS FOR THE TOPPING 300g cream cheese 150g icing sugar 2 tsp cornflour 125ml double cream (or whipping cream) 1. Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/180°C/160°C Fan/350ºF, and butter and line a 23cm / 9 inch springform tin. 2. Pour the Guinness into a large wide saucepan, add the butter — in spoons or slices — and heat until the butter’s melted, at which time you should whisk in the cocoa and sugar. Beat the sour cream with the eggs and vanilla and then pour into the brown, buttery, beery pan and finally whisk in the flour and bicarb. 3. Pour the cake batter into the greased and lined tin and bake for 45 minutes to an hour. Leave to cool completely in the tin on a cooling rack, as it is quite a damp cake. 4. When the cake’s cold, sit it on a flat platter or cake stand and get on with the icing. Lightly whip the cream cheese until smooth, sieve over the icing sugar and cornflour and then beat to combine. 5. If using double cream, add it and beat until you have a spreadable consistency. If using whipping cream, whisk first to soft peaks, add a couple of spoonfuls into the cream cheese mixture and once this is combined, fold in the rest. Ice the top of the black cake so that it resembles the frothy top of the famous pint.

Life lately 🎞️ - Denim + black trousers - my favourite outfit combo right now. - Our first spring in the new garden. It’s so fun to see it changing by the day. - Can’t stop won’t stop at @tutto.uk. - Went to bed early on Saturday and read @bakedbybenji’s book from start to finish. Dream evening right there! - A Sunday fit. - It’s official. This Guinness cake is officially the best cake I’ve ever made. - A peek at the bathroom counter. - Suede season is here. - Birthday celebrations.

Some outfits that I’m desperate to wear again. Am I a summer girlie now?! 🤷🏻‍♀️

18th April 2024 - 18th April 2023 🏡

AD | Time for a skin update and I thought I’d show you my current go-to ‘no makeup, makeup’ look where it’s ALLLLL about the skin prep. The new @olehenriksen Banana Bright+ Instant Glow Moisturiser is the one-step makeup prep moisturiser that gives that golden-lit glow and plumps skin with 24-hour hydration. I like to layer it with the matching eye cream, add an SPF and tinted moisturiser over the top and leave it there, just with a quick curl of my eyelashes and the Pout Preserve Peptide Lip Treatment in Strawberry Sorbet. Everyday glow in just a few steps ✨

Outfits from last night’s Substack newsletter on what to wear when you have to leave the house after 7pm, using what you already own in your wardrobe. Popping them here incase you want to save them and borrow the outfit formulas for your next evening out! What one’s your favourite?