Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, Green, Nuts, pink, Spring, Summer, tagged almond, chocolate, Fudge, pink and mint green, pink roses, pretty cupcakes, summer, Toblerone, toblerone cookies, toblerone cupcakes, toblerone fudge on July 23, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Last time I got back from holiday, I bought some Toblerone at the airport, I decided to copy Emma’s idea and use it to make some treats for the office. I chose a summery design, perfect for the warm weather we’ve been having recently. Click here to find out more about these pretty cupcakes.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, Iced Cakes, pink, Spices, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, tagged 100th Birthday Cake, chocolate, chocolate cupcakes, lemon, lemon cupcakes, pink, sugarpaste roses on July 9, 2015| Leave a Comment »
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.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, tagged birthday cake, cow print cake, cows, cows playing football, football on July 6, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I 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.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, royal icing, Sugarpaste flowers, tagged Classic figure modelling, Mosaic, peony, Quilling, royal icing, Royal icing collar, stencilling, sugar paste on July 1, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Last week Em and I went on our second 6 day Cake Decorating Course at Squires Kitchen International, this time it was an extended techniques course, building on what we had already learnt on the previous course. We had another amazing week doing what we both love. Click here to keep reading and see some of the beautiful things we created.
Posted in Biscuits, Chocolate, Nuts, royal icing, Summer, tagged apple, Biscuits, caterplillar, cookies, flooding icing, the very hungry caterpillar on June 27, 2015| 3 Comments »
When I was little, every night before bed I would ask to be read the same book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar. For some reason it was my favourite book – maybe because it was all about food! What did the Very Hungry Caterpillar eat today?
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Iced Cakes, Red, White, tagged football, football cake, football shirt, sunderland AFC on June 19, 2015| 2 Comments »
This week has been a busy cake week. I usually find that if somebody asks me to make a cake, it usually ends up being for a week when I’m already making one. This week I’ve made two very different cakes, but both had a football theme. The first one I made was this one – a Sunderland football shirt.
Posted in Biscuits, Other, tagged caramel, cookies, hairy bikers on June 9, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The other week I realised it had been a while since I’d baked for the office so I decided I should bake something to take in. I wanted to make something quick and simple, which only needed store cupboard ingredients since I didn’t want to go out to the supermarket, so I decided to make some cookies. After a flick through some of my recipe books I came across these in the Hairy Bikers Big Book of Baking. Despite having to make the caramel to go in them, they’re straightforward (and quick) to make. Need a quick sugar fix?
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, tagged cherry, chocolate, cupcakes, house warming, new home on June 4, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Last weekend I visited my sister-in-law Tams and her hubby Pete, they got married and bought a house together last year and this was our 1st visit, so I thought it would be a nice idea to make some ‘new home’ cupcakes. I chose a yummy looking chocolate cherry cupcake recipe to try out. Click here to see what I baked.
Posted in Fruit/Veg, Other Cakes, Summer, tagged Afternoon tea, British, clotted cream, strawberries on May 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »
When I went to the supermarket earlier I spotted that they had British strawberries. I refuse to buy strawberries unless they’re British since the flavour of non-British ones just isn’t as good, so when I saw these I picked up a couple of punnets. I carried on doing the weekly shop and when I got to the cream section I saw that there was one pot of clotted cream left. So I decided I was going to make some scones for afternoon tea – it was meant to be! Would you like some afternoon tea?
Posted in cake pops, Spring, tagged cake pops, chocolate cake, flowers, spring, Sprinkles on May 20, 2015| Leave a Comment »
One of the best things about making larger cakes and unusual shaped cakes are all the off cuts! Cakes always need levelling off or shaping, so there are plenty of opportunities to do a taste test. Having made several large cakes recently I have ended up with loads of left over cake. So I have been making lots of cake pops and I now have a freezer filled with around 200 to be used and decorated at some point in the future. Click here to find out how to make and decorate these pretty cake pops.
Gloverly Cupcakes 
