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Santa in Bed Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Figure Modelling, tagged , , on December 24, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Earlier in the year I made an Easter cake and Halloween cake for charity raffles in the office. I decided that I would offer to make a Christmas cake. I had no idea how I was going to decorate, but for some reason I decided that when I got home after my Christmas party it was a good time to start decorating it! After a quick search on Pinterest I found a cake that looked quite quick to make so I based it on that. Click here to see Father Christmas in bed!

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Gingerbread Bird Box

Posted in Biscuits, Christmas, gluten-free, Red, royal icing, White on December 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Making a gingerbread house has become an annual event with my friend Anne. Each year we seem to spend more time talking and drinking tea and less time making and decorating our gingerbread! It’s great fun and hopefully we’ll be doing it for many more years to come. This year I decided to make a bird box and keep the colours simple with just white Royal icing with a few red highlights. Click here to keep reading.

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Winter Scene Christmas Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Grey, royal icing, Winter, tagged , , , on December 14, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Last year I didn’t get round to writing about the Christmas cake I made, mostly due to being over ambitious with what I wanted to do before the big day – there were so many thing I wanted to bake, Christmas decorations I wanted to make and prepare for 12 people coming to ours for Christmas. I’d never hosted Christmas before either! So I thought I would write a short blog about it this year in between feeding, nappy changing, playing and watching Emily sleep – it’s amazing how much time you can spend just watching your little one! Click here to see how to decorate the cake I made last year.

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Becky’s Little Showstopper…

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, tagged , , on November 18, 2015| 2 Comments »

P1210008If you like our Facebook page you’ll have seen that a month ago today, Becky gave birth to a beautiful baby girl – Emily Charlotte Phillips! I took the first opportunity I had to go down and meet her. I wanted to take down a cake, so with the help of mum (who made the rocky road cake for me!) I created this very rushed cake. Click here to meet little Emily!

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Cheese Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, tagged , on November 17, 2015| Leave a Comment »

 

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Cheese Cake

Every year for Tom’s birthday I make him a cake. This year it’s a bit late since we were on holiday but I promised I’d make him something to take to work when we got back. It took a while to come up with an idea but I went through a list of things Tom likes and cakes I’ve made, and realised I’ve never made him a cheese-related cake. More cheese please!

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GBBO Technical Challenge No. 7 – Tennis Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, GBBO Challenges, Iced Cakes, Nuts, Spices, Summer, tagged , , , , on September 21, 2015| 4 Comments »

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I had my parents coming to visit this weekend as well as a few other friends popping over to visit, so this weeks Bake Off technical challenge was perfect, it meant that I had a yummy cake to offer everyone! I make quite a lot of fruit cakes, so I was keen to try this recipe to see how it compares. I have made my own marzipan a few times, but I have never made my own sugar paste, so this would be another thing to tick off the list. Click here to see how I got on.

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Lilac Rose and Freesia (Raspberry and Amaretto) Wedding Cake

Posted in Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, purple, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, Wedding Cakes, tagged , , , , on September 7, 2015| Leave a Comment »

IMG_0229Just before Christmas last year, a family friend, Emma, asked if I would be able to make her wedding cake. Despite not living near where the wedding was going to be I said yes since it was near my parents so I thought it would be a good chance to go back to my parents for a few days. However, that didn’t happen – instead mum, dad and Becky came up to stay with me for a few days and then took the cake back. Becky even assembled the cake for me! Click here to keep reading.

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Noah’s Ark Christening Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, tagged , , , , on August 14, 2015| 1 Comment »

Noah's Ark Christening Cake

Noah’s Ark Christening Cake

A few weeks ago I made a Christening cake for my friends Chloe and Rory’s sons Christening. They had the lovely idea of a Noah’s Ark cake. I took some inspiration from Pinterest and had an enormous amount of fun creating this cake! Click here to see the animals marching in two by two…

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Classic Pink Rose 100th Birthday Cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, pink, Spices, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, tagged , , , , , , on July 9, 2015| Leave a Comment »

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I’d never made a 100th Birthday cake before, so I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to make one. It was for our close friend’s Granny, who is called Rose, so the request for pink roses on the cake was perfect. The cake was a light fruit cake, a delicious recipe from an old cook book that our Mum has, great for this time of year!  Click here for the recipe.

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Cows playing football cake

Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, tagged , , , , on July 6, 2015| Leave a Comment »


IMG_3133I love being asked to make cakes that are a bit different and this one was definitely different! Trudy said she wanted a cake for her husband that incorporated his 2 loves – cows and football. With a cake like this, it’s not something that you can google to find a cake to copy and I had no idea what it was going to look like until I started making the cows. Click here to keep reading.

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