Posted in Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, Sugarpaste flowers, White, tagged Banoffee Cake, White Cake, White Flowers on March 20, 2019| Leave a Comment »
I always seem to get asked on my Birthday “Are you baking your own cake?” and the answer is always “YES!” I love baking and it’s the one cake a year where I get to do exactly what I want! So this year I made the banoffee cake which was in March’s Olive magazine and chose a design that was simple but elegant. Click here for the scrummy recipe.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, tagged 1st Birthday Cake, Children's Birthday Cake, In the Night Garden Cake on March 14, 2019| Leave a Comment »
The year following the arrival of Emily was a busy year of cake baking for me (although I was too busy to blog and upload any photos, so I’m playing catch up now!), having made lots of new local Mummy friends, I suddenly found myself being asked to make 1st Birthday cakes and Christening cakes! Kids Birthday cakes are always fun to make, full of bright colours and interesting characters and this one was no exception. Click here to see all the details of this 1st Birthday cake.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, tagged First Birthday Cake, Hungry Caterpillar Cake, kids birthday cake on March 6, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Emma’s favourite book when we were little was the Hungry Caterpillar and it’s also one of Emily’s favourites too, she knows almost all the words! A couple of years ago I was asked to make a cake for Rich’s Godson Freddie and was very excited about the theme. Click here to see some more pics of this cake and matching cupcakes.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Iced Cakes, tagged Anatomy Cake, Celebration Cake, Doctors Cake on February 13, 2019| Leave a Comment »
A couple of years ago now my friend Sarah became a consultant, so to celebrate, her hubby arranged a party and I couldn’t resist making a cake for the occasion. I did some research and found a cake I liked on Pinterest. I based my design on this, the original can be found here. Click here to find out more.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, pink, tagged Baby Shower Cake, Bunny Cake on February 7, 2019| Leave a Comment »
I really enjoy modelling figures and animals especially cute ones! And this one was no exception, a bunny to go on top of a baby shower cake. Click here to see how I made this little bunny.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, Spices, tagged christmas baking, Christmas cake, Reindeer Cake on December 24, 2018| Leave a Comment »
This year I had a request from Emily for a reindeer Christmas cake. So I had a look on Pinterest for a few ideas and came across a cute cake that I thought looked great so I adapted it slightly. Click here to see this fun cake.
Posted in Black, Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Figure Modelling, Green, Iced Cakes, White, tagged Caramel Ombre Cake, Children's Birthday Cake, Panda Cake on November 22, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Just over a month ago it was Emily’s 3rd Birthday. Being a typical 3 year old she was changing her mind every day about what kind of party and cake she wanted, slightly tricky when trying to plan things! Her favourite cuddly toy is her panda and so when I suggested that she had a panda themed party and cake, she seemed very excited and the idea stuck, phew! She takes after both her Aunties with her love of pandas. She asked for the cake to have a Mummy panda, a Daddy panda and and Emily panda on as well as some bamboo, so I did a bit of research and came up with a design. Click here to take a look at the panda cake.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, Nuts, Other Cakes, Puddings, tagged GBBO, GBBO Technical Challenge, patisserie, Torta Setteveli on October 30, 2018| Leave a Comment »
I was really pleased when I saw what the technical challenge was last week – it’s been ages since I’ve made something like that and I couldn’t wait to try it! The only downside was that it’s pretty big (it’s huge!) and I was on my own for the weekend. Luckily I had a cross-country race and my team mates were more than happy to help me eat it up!
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Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, gluten-free, Iced Cakes, Spices, tagged Father's Day Cake, gluten-free, Pie Cake, Sticky Ginger Cake on June 17, 2018| Leave a Comment »
As it’s Father’s Day today, I couldn’t resist baking a special cake for my Dad as a present. He loves pies, so I thought I would have a go at making a cake and turning it into a pie! I used Pinterest to look for a few ideas and found a great cake made by Clinton’s Cakes with chips, peas and a red and white chequed table cloth. I wanted to make a cake that would keep well for a week and also be one of my Dad’s and hubby’s favourite flavours, so I chose a sticky ginger cake recipe that I have made a couple of times before. Click here to try a slice of the pie.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Easter, Other, tagged cake, Easter, Easter Bunny, sugar paste on March 31, 2018| Leave a Comment »
For the last few years I’ve made an Easter cake to raffle off for charity at work. I offered to do the same again this year for the charity of the month – Hearing Dogs. 
Being at work all week meant I only had a couple of evenings to make and decorate it so I picked something fairly simple. The cake was a chocolate caramel ombré cake and I crumbled up the off cuts of the chocolate cake to make the soil. I covered the whole cake in green sugarpaste, cut out a circle from the middle and then filled it with the ‘soil’. The bunny was made from a ball of white icing flattened slightly and then put in the soil. I then stuck on a small ball of icing for his tail and made 2 feet which I finished off with a few small circles of pale pink icing. The carrots were made from orange icing and I marked some lines on them with the back of a knife. I added cake wire to the middle of the green carrot tops to keep them standing upright. Annoyingly they were slightly too tall to fit in the box so I had to break the tops off to make them a bit shorter! 
Hope you all enjoy the long Easter weekend!
