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| 1 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!
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Christmas, Figure Modelling, tagged Christmas, christmas baking, Christmas cake, santa on December 18, 2017| Leave a Comment »
For the last few years I’ve made a Christmas cake for the office to be raffled off for charity. Having been on holiday for 3 weeks at the end of November/start of December I haven’t had much time to do much Christmas baking, and still haven’t decided how I’m going to decorate my own cake this year but I offered to make a cake for the office so yesterday I spent a couple of hours making this! Click here to keep reading
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Christmas, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, Spices, tagged Christmas cake, fruit cake, Turkey Cake on December 14, 2017| Leave a Comment »
This year I decided to try something very different for my Christmas cake, rather than doing something traditional I thought I would do something silly! I’d seen a photo of a turkey cake and thought I would try something similar. I also wanted to try a different flavoured Christmas cake but still wanted it to be a fruit cake so it would keep. Click here to try out this yummy recipe.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, tagged Animal Cake, Farm Cake, Figure Modelling, kids birthday cakes, Old MAcDonald's Farm Cake on October 27, 2017| Leave a Comment »
It was Emily’s 2nd Birthday last Friday and to celebrate we had a small family party at the weekend. She absolutely loves Old MacDonald at the moment and we seem to spend every car journey singing it, along with all sorts of animals as well as some vehicles (usually fire engines and boats) and other random things like peas and macaroni cheese! So I decided to do a farm themed party and an Old MacDonald cake. Click here to visit Old MacDonalds Farm.
Gloverly Cupcakes 