The Calf & Giraffe

Double tap if you are in love with honey cake 🍯
Even if you never tried it but are keen to☺️😉

As the majority of you like the idea of introducing a classic simple cake to a menu this weekend, we decided that it’s a good idea and a perfect way to celebrate the beginning of summer and indulge people.

So… 🎂 a 6” Multilayer honey cake with cream cheese and raspberries £25/each is available to order for this Saturday.

Free Delivery (Brackley): Saturday 28th , 11-12am

❗️❗️❗️The offer is limited and pre-ordering closes on Thursday 26th, 3pm.

RECIPE 🍋🍋🍋

Summer is coming so it’s time to move from heavy chocolate and buttercream desserts to something vibrant☀️
So, my suggestion for this week is a pretty easy and absolutely mouth-watering lemon cheesecake with a light as cloud Italian meringue. The last feature is optional and if you don’t have a big desire to impress someone as well as a blow torch and thermometer you can easily skip this step.
Let’s start:
1) I wanted to suggest to bake a base from scratch but I’m sure that 90% of you would close this post immediately as soon as you saw an extra step😂
So, we will make a simple base. Just grind cookies in a blender into fine crumbs. If you don’t have a blender - put biscuits into a plastic bag and break them with a rolling pin (which is a really good way to reduce your stress👊).
Combine the crumbs with the butter melted. Get a 16 cm baking tin and build a base with 4-5cm rims. Afterwards place the tin into a fridge for at least 10 mins
2) Heat the oven to 110C. Mix the soft cheese with the sugar until smooth. Then alternately add yolk, egg and lemon zest (use a mixer to combine them together)
3) Mix 50g of cheese mix with 100g of lemon curd
4) Add milk to the rest of cheese mix
5) Fill the base with the cheesecake mix – yellow (lemon) mass first and white on top. Bake in the oven for 90-120mins
6) Cool the cheesecake in a semi-opened oven (don’t worry if its slightly soft) and then rest it in the fridge for min 6 hours
7) Cover the top of the cheesecake with lemon curd (optional).
8) Italian meringue (optional).
Make a syrup by putting the water and sugar into a pan and boiling until 111-121C.
At the same time start whisking the egg white on a low speed (always use a clean and dry jug- it’s really critical for the right meringue). As soon as the syrup reaches the required temperature, slowly pour the syrup into the egg white and whisk constantly on high speed. It’s quite hard to say how long you should whisk the meringue – it really depends on the power of your mixer. You should do it for at least 10 mins until the mass becomes really firm.
Spread the meringue over the cheesecake and burn with a blow torch.
That’s all! Bon appetite.☺️

Half a cake to mark half a year of my beautiful little son😄
Hand painted baby panda in a bath with lots of caramel bobbles.

Recently l received lots of inquiries so I feel it’s better to clarify the current status of The Calf and Giraffe and our future plans.

So this gentleman (on pic …) is the most important reason for the temporary (or not 🤔) closing of our little online shop.
I’d love to keep this page (which was made with lots of love) and probably make it useful and inspiring for you.
So from now I’ll just post some baking life hacks, amazing easy recipes (sometimes sugar free) and sometimes some of my non commercial cake pics.

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The Calf & Giraffe updated their business hours.

Happy Mother’s Day for all beautiful and thoughtful mums 😘

Northampton saints style cake for 80th birthday.

Absolutely in love with these vibrant colors and a little player on top (who somehow looks like Howard Wolowitz if you know what I mean 😂).

Simple cake to celebrate 4 months of a nice little boy😊

Happy new year everyone!
I hope 2022 will bring to your life lots of love, joy and happiness 🥰

Apple crumble and pistachio mousse 😍what’s a yummy combination for a chilly October day ☕️

Hello everyone
We are sorry to inform you that due to some very joyful private reasons The Calf and Giraffe is temporarily closed 🤱🏻
(approximately until December 1st).

Sorry for the possible inconvenience and see you in December😉🧑🏻‍🎄

Pistachio, raspberry and chocolate orange macarons😋- such a nice way to celebrate end of the working week

It was such a great fun to make these and gingerbread cookies 😋🤪 do you recognize some of the cartoon heroes?

A lovely summer themed cake to celebrate the first birthday of The Calf and Giraffe bakery.

Inside: super-orange cake (orange zest sponge with orange gel and orange cream-cheese). Refreshing and not too sweet😋

Decoration: fondant figure, wafer palm leaves, hand-painting

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😄Happy !
Sweeten up the bond with your father while you spend a lovely time with him this weekend.
We are offering:
*1/2 pint cake pots - £4/each minimum order of 4
*Cupcake boxes (Chocolate and Guinness; Vanilla and Irish cream (or just vanilla)) 4 for £10, 6 for £15
*Buzz-Brownies (Spiced rum & apple, Gin & raspberry, Irish cream)
box of 4-12£ , box of 6 -£15.

Your order will be delivered on Sunday 20th June between 10.30-14:00
🚗 Free Delivery within 10 miles of NN13

As an ex-geography teacher it was a great fun for me to make this golden globe cake 😃

The Calf & Giraffe updated their website address.

The Calf and Giraffe is happy to deliver our sweet treat boxes to your friends and family all around the UK.

We already shipped over 700 boxes of our delicious brownies (including vegan (pic3) and alcoholic), rocky road and gingerbread.

To make an order all you need to do is send us a message with the recipient’s name and address, a preferred delivery date and a gift message (if required).

Box size: 22x16x2cm (fits a standard letterbox)
Every box is accompanied by a hand-written card.

Price: £12.95 (non alcoholic boxes)/ £14.95 (buzz-box). Free postage.

Corporate orders are also welcome😉

Hello everyone!

Great news — Easter treats from The Calf & Giraffe are now available to order!
We're happy to offer:
- Mini Easter eggs cookie sets (vanilla and chocolate flavours ) Box of 6 — £8
- Vanilla and blueberry cupcakes — Boxes of 4 and 6 — £10/15
- Mini carrot cakes in chocolate pots (Nut free) — £4/each (minimum order of 3)

To make an order or if you have any questions please DM us!

With Love
The Calf and Giraffe

The Calf & Giraffe is happy to offer an original sweet treats for Mother’s day and Easter.

Mother’ favorite flower — Moist rich chocolate cake in a milk chocolate pot decorated with edible soil and sugar flower.

Easter bunny pots — Nut-free carrot cake, with gentle cream cheese frosting and layers of pear confiture, decorated with edible moss and gingerbread ears.

To find out more or make an order please DM us.

I’m happy to introduce our new postal rocky road slabs. All made using the very finest natural ingredients and every single one is made fresh to order.

Created with passion, each treat is guaranteed to bring pleasure and this makes them a perfect gift for friends, family or yourself!

Our Rocky Road flavours:
- Classic (Vegan is available*)
- Biscoff (Vegan is available*)
- Aero-mint
- Chocolate orange
- Oreo
- Super crunch (Maltisers + Kit Kat) DM me if you’d like to order (Free UK wide postage) 😉

Lemon and poppyseed cake with blubbery mousse and lemon curd 🍋 😋

Decor: waffle flower and caramel crystals