Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, tagged cats, harry potter cake, kids birthday cakes on January 23, 2020| Leave a Comment »
I still have a big backlog of cakes and bakes that I have made that I haven’t uploaded on our website yet, so over the next few weeks I’ll try and add some of these, especially as I’m not getting enough time to do much baking at the moment. I created this Harry Potter Birthday cake for one of Rich’s friends at work and really enjoyed making it – I can’t wait to read the books again when the girls are a bit older! Click here to see some more pics.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Christmas, Figure Modelling, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, Spices, tagged christmas baking, Christmas cake, fruit cake, Penguin Christmas Cake on December 23, 2019| Leave a Comment »
I just love making and decorating Christmas cakes, so as a Christmas pressie this year for our friends Matt and Beckie and their 2 kids I decided to make them a cake again! While we were away with them in the Peak District I was looking at pictures of Christmas cakes on Pinterest and Freddie and Ellie loved all the penguin ones, so I thought that’s what I would do. I found a few designs and picked my favourite bits to design this cake. Click here to see some more photos and info on decorating it.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Christmas, Figure Modelling, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, Spices, tagged christmas baking, Christmas cake, Father Christmas Cake, fruit cake on December 19, 2019| Leave a Comment »
I wanted to do something different for our Christmas cake this year, so decided on a big Father Christmas! I found a lovely design on Pinterest and thought I would give it a go, Emily is very excited about Father Christmas this year so I thought it was perfect. This year I am breaking from some of the traditional recipes I usually make, so the Christmas cake is a new one from October’s Sainsbury’s Magazine – clementine and chocolate, can’t wait to try it! Click here to see the recipe and more pics of the cake.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, Nuts, Spring, Summer, tagged Children's Birthday Cake, Frog Cake, Orange and Almond Cake on December 9, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Just over a week ago it was Chloe’s first Birthday! I decided to do a frog themed cake and mini party for her, Emily was so excited! I spent a long time on Pinterest looking at frog cakes for some inspiration and then on Facebook I spotted a YouTube video from The Little Cherry Cake Company on how to make a frog cake, so I had a look and thought I would give it a go, it is definitely the cutest froggy cake I had seen. Click here to see some more pics.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, GBBO Challenges, Iced Cakes, Spices, tagged GBBO, Ginger Cake, Hedgehog Cake on December 5, 2019| 1 Comment »
Before we start all our Christmas baking I thought I would quickly upload some photos of the cake that Emily made for Rich for his Birthday this year. We all love watching the Great British Bake Off and also enjoy watching An Extra Slice. Rich’s absolute favourite bit is when they show photos of things that other people have had a go at baking, in particular the famous hedgehog cakes. So for his Birthday this year I thought we could make him a hedgehog cake and I would let Emily decorate it all by herself! I was secretly hoping it would be very funny leaving a 4 year old to do it! Click here to see how Emily got on.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Iced Cakes, tagged rainbow cake, Unicorn Cake on November 27, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Just over a month ago it was Emily’s 4th Birthday! And being a typical 4 year old she wanted a unicorn cake. I’d never made one before but knew that it wouldn’t be long before I had a request for one! I decided to surprise Emily by making the cake rainbow coloured inside, click here to see inside my unicorn cake.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, pink, purple, Spring, Summer, tagged Butterfly Cake, christening cake, Spring Flower Cake on August 5, 2019| Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago it was my niece Alice’s Christening and I was very excited to be making the cake for her. I’m not managing to fit much baking or cake decorating in at the moment so it was really nice to have a small cake project to work on! Tams asked for something with butterflies, so we looked at loads of designs and decided on the additions of some painted grass and flowers in pinks and purples and a small grey bunny too. Click here to see how this pretty cake came to life.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, pink, Sugarpaste flowers, White, tagged 90th Birthday Cake, Pink Flower Cake, Sugar Paste Flowers on May 2, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Over Easter weekend it was our Grandma’s 90th Birthday and to celebrate we had a wonderful family weekend together. It all started with a surprise Birthday lunch for Grandma followed by tea and cake of course! Making cakes for the family is always special, particularly this time as Emma and I were always fascinated by the sugar flowers that Grandma used to make, so it was really lovely to be able to make some for her. Click here to see some more photos of this pretty cake.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Easter, Figure Modelling, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, Spices, tagged Easter Baking, Easter Bunny Cake, Spiced Marmalade Cake on April 16, 2019| Leave a Comment »
We are away for Easter this year as it’s our Grandma’s 90th Birthday, so I thought I’d make an Easter cake a couple of weeks early for a weekend treat when we had friends staying. I loved the sound of this spiced marmalade bundt cake from the Waitrose newspaper a while ago, so thought I would give it a go. I had planned to make an Easter cake last year, but unfortunately ended up spending Easter in hospital with pneumonia, so this year I really wanted to make something special. Click here for the recipe and to see some more photos of this cake.
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.
Gloverly Cupcakes 