Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, tagged birthday, Comedy Cake, Impractical Jokers, Sugarpaste Modelling, vanilla on August 4, 2016| Leave a Comment »
May was a busy month for cakes, so I didn’t get round to writing about any of them or putting any photos up. So now things are a little quieter (well for five minutes at least) I thought I would put some photos up of the coolest cake I made in May! Click here to see more photos of this crazy cake.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Iced Cakes on July 21, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I’ve made a few cakes for one of our friends, Martin, but this is probably my favourite. When I asked what cake he wanted, Jen, his wife, said he loves Marvel Comics and the Hulk is his favourite. Other than that I had free reign to chose what to make. These are my favourite kind of cakes. After a search on Pinterest I found a few ideas I liked and decided to merge them all into one cake. Click here to keep reading.
Posted in Iced Cakes, Red, silver, Sugarpaste flowers, Wedding Cakes, White, tagged ferns, Red roses, silver, wedding cake on July 8, 2016| 1 Comment »
A couple of months ago I made my first wedding cake of 2016 and the first since little Emily arrived. The design that Helen and Nick came up with was quite dramatic and worked beautifully with the theme of their wedding. Helen is English, so the cake had some large red roses and Nick is from New Zealand, so some ferns were also included in the design. Click here to see some more pics of this stand out cake.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Iced Cakes, Other on June 2, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Last year a friend at work asked if I’d be able to make a birthday cake for one of her friends. However when she said she wanted a sugar skull on it, I had no idea what she was on about and was worried that if agreed to make something I wouldn’t be able to do! Click here to find out how I made it.
Posted in Green, Nuts, Other Cakes, Spring, Summer, tagged Fondant Fancies, Kids Birthday, pistachio, spring on May 12, 2016| 2 Comments »
I’ve always wanted to have a go at making fondant fancies and a few weeks ago it was my friend Karen’s 30th Birthday and all the food for the party was kids party themed, so this was the perfect opportunity to give them a go. I definitely need a lot more practise as they aren’t the easiest thing to make, but I had a bit of fun trying them out. The party food was great – I can’t remember the last time I had Skips or cheese and pineapple on sticks – amazing! Click here for the recipe.
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, Spring, tagged bugs, chocolate, cupcakes, orange, spring on April 13, 2016| 2 Comments »
It’s been a gorgeous week, full of spring sunshine so I couldn’t resist making some spring cupcakes as a present for Matt and Beckie who looked after Emily on Saturday while Rich and I were at a wedding. Click here to find out how to make these little bugs.
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, pink, Spring on April 4, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Last week on Friday we got home from work to find a bowl full of eggs fresh on our doorstep, from our neighbours. I decided that in return for the eggs, I would bake them some cupcakes. I’ve had these pinned on Pinterest for ages and decided that they were the perfect cakes to make – spring-like and quick to make. Click here to find out how to make them.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Easter, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes on March 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I made an Easter cake again this year for a charity raffle at work. Unfortunately I was ill the week before so didn’t have as much time as last year and had to choose a simpler design. Sometimes simple is best but I think I still prefer the cake I made last year. The cake this year was being raffled on Wednesday so I made a Simnel cake from the BBC website that would last until the Easter weekend. (more…)
Posted in Cupcakes, Easter, Spring on March 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago I made some cupcakes to take to the Leeds office when I went down for the day. I was planning on making them again to take to work but I was too busy/tired and then got ill. I didn’t get any good photos of them so I realised that if I wanted to put them on the blog I’d have to make them again… what a shame! Click here to make these sheep… Baaaaa!
Posted in Cupcakes, Easter, gluten-free, Other on March 24, 2016| Leave a Comment »
It must be time for some Easter baking! This year I haven’t had time to bake a big cake, so I decided to make a couple of batches of cupcakes – some for our family trip this weekend and some for the local baby group I go to on a Thursday morning. I hadn’t managed to go shopping this week, so I had to pick a flavour that had only store cupboard ingredients in – I really struggled, but found that Earl Grey tea cupcakes were the same as the vanilla ones and the only extra ingredients were a few tea bags. Click here to hop to the full blog for the recipe.
Gloverly Cupcakes 