The Hardihood

I’ve taken a huge unexpected hiatus from Instagram! But am still making cakes in the background 🙃 here is a sweet Lemon & Blueberry wedding cake I made this weekend for a lovely London wedding 🎉

Raspberry cacao birthday cake specialness 🌸
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Fave salted caramel mini bites for a children’s party yesterday 🎉
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Cacao hazelnut centrepiece 🎂
for an afternoon tea at home 💕

Chocolate hazelnut rocher with her Christmas look 🎄🎄
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Blueberry blue majik marble birthdays are where it’s at 🌀
Raw, vegan, no gluten or refined sugar. No sugary regrets ✨
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Double raw cake birthday celebration 🎉 big 39, little 40 as requested, cos who needs to shout about it?
Hazelnut rocher & blueberry marble 💙

A delicious snowball project 🤍 the coconut & salted madagascan vanilla flavour taste just like raffaello’s 🥥
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Wakey wakey, cake n bakey.
Cacao + coffee ☕️☕️☕️
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Bluebs for days 🌀🌀🌀🌀

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Haven’t made one of these in a hot minute! 🍋 Half Baked : Lemon Lime with a biscuity baked crust & raw mousse filling 💛✨

Blueberry, raspberry & vanilla swirl 🦄🌀💟💜💙🤍💗
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Chocolate hazelnut rawwww cake 🤤🍫 this flavour never fails to impress ✨
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Current morning fave...
Berry banana nicecream 🌀 my son calls it ‘ice cweam!’ and thinks I’m giving him a mega morning treat 😍 made from allotment red currents, frozen blueberries, frozen bananas and oat milk 🍌
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Kicking the week off with cacao + pistachio 🌞 happy Monday cake lovers!
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Happy Sunday everyone! I’ve got two lovely things to share with you -
1. The recipe for these deliciously rich vegan chocolate cupcakes is now over on the Hardihood journal - they’re so delicious, and really were easy to make so go check these out!

2. If you’re a lover of vintage homewares like me, then you’re going to want to go and follow !! I’ve been collecting home and table wares from over the years styling Hardihood cakes, and I’ve been adding to my collection heavily over the past year so I can bring them to you lovely peeps! Please give a follow if you love this kind of stuff, there will be new pieces up for sale all the time! Including this beautiful vintage Belgian crystal cake stand ✨
Sending you lots of love & good weekend vibes x
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Chamomile dreams ✨

Birthday babe 🌸 finished with chrysanthemums 💗

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You’ll remember me, when the west wind moves... 🌾 #🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Blue Marble 🌀 blueberry & Madagascan vanilla swirl with added blue Majik and blackberry purée. Blue cashew cream & cashew salted balls ✨

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Monday picnic inspo 🌿 📌

Elderflower cordial with coconut sugar, lemon 🍋 & orange 🍊🌿
I wanted to make cordial with a less refined sugar, and altogether less sweet as I always find elderflower cordial incredibly sweet. This turned out really well. With delicious flavour!
Recipe :
20 elderflower heads
1.5 litres of water
1kg coconut sugar
1 organic lemon - zested and sliced
1 organic orange - zested and sliced
85g citric acid
Method :
Soak your elderflower heads in a large bowl of water to wash and make sure any bugs come out.
Gently heat your water and dissolve the coconut sugar slowly. Once it’s dissolved completely, bring to the boil. Then turn off the heat and add the lemon/orange zest and slices, the elderflower and the citric acid. Stir well and leave covered for 24hrs.
Strain through a nut milk bag and store in clean bottles.
@ Royal Victoria Dock

Ready for her close up 📸 raspberry ripple with beetroot and vanilla. Berry beetroot balls and finished with delicate verbena and phlox 🌸🌿
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Who else has discovered some beautiful nature spots they never saw before lockdown? 🌿🌳

Peanut butter strawberry beetroot layers, beetroot cashew cream icing, salted peanut butter balls 🌸

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Back in a garden centre yesterday, and it felt so good! 🌿✨ all small steps back to normality feel so huge right now, which I suppose in some ways is a blessing. We’re going to appreciate the small things so much more after this 💫
These beautiful grown in Aloe Vera’s are on my list when I have more space!

Sunday table inspo ✨📸 via

Wrapping up this beauty for delivery 💓 it’s been such a pleasure to be able to continue making celebration cakes for people during this crazy time. Couriers have been impossibly hard to book, which I thought was going to be a complete nightmare, so I’ve had to start delivering cakes myself - which has turned out to be such an added bonus. I’ve managed to meet so many lovely customers (with gloved hands & at a safe distance might I add!) - and just to see the faces and smiles of the people who’ll be enjoying the cakes and to have a brief chat has been a real joy for me in these times of isolation ✨ when you have a small business, there are no zoom calls or daily/weekly updates with colleagues, so it has been an added layer of quietness. It’s been a real eye opener how much we really need human interaction - who else has been feeling the effects of working alone?

Happy Birthday 🎉 Hazelnut Rocher delivered today.
Maca buckwheat salted base.
Rich cacao and hazelnut core,
and salted hazelnut decadent balls to finish.
This will keep you coming back to the fridge 😍✨
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