Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, Other, royal icing, Sugarpaste flowers, tagged baking, Brush Embroidery, calla lilies, carnations, fruit cake, Marzipan, Pastillage, roses, royal icing, stencilling, sugar paste on May 7, 2015| Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago Em and I went on a 6 day Professional Intensive Cake Decorating Course at Squires Kitchen International. We had an amazing week refining our existing skills as well as learning some new techniques. Click here to see some of our creations.
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, Nuts, tagged cupcakes, Grand National, Horse Racing, horses, pistachio, White chocolate on April 11, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Em and I love having a theme for our baking, so when my manager at work dropped a hint that I should make some Grand National themed cupcakes, I couldn’t refuse! Click here to find out how to make these fun cupcakes.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Easter, Figure Modelling, tagged cakes, Easter, easter cake, garden cake, mini eggs, spring chickens on April 2, 2015| 2 Comments »
A few weeks ago I said that I would make an Easter cake for the office to raffle off for charity. I hadn’t decided what cake I would make so I used my usual source of inspiration – Pinterest. However, none of the Easter ideas I’d pinned last year jumped out at me so I decided to have another search. I was looking for ideas rather than something to copy completely but after I saw this cake I decided that there wasn’t much about it that I wanted to change. Is it Easter yet?!
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Easter, Iced Cakes, Nuts, Spices, tagged chick, chocolate, Easter, Marzipan, orange, Simnel Cake on April 1, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Last year for Easter Emma and I were back at our parents for a few days, so we thought it was about time we made a mess of Mum’s kitchen and did some baking! We wanted to do a slightly different take on a traditional Simnel cake, and came across this yummy chocolate orange Simnel cake recipe. The decoration was another idea taken from Pinterest. So if you haven’t made a cake yet, this one is lovely and the decoration is fairly simple too. Click here to keep reading…
Posted in Cupcakes, Spring, tagged cupcakes, Easter, pastel colours, spring birds, Twitter bird cupcakes on March 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Last weekend it definitely felt like spring had arrived. We’d also had some lovely sunny days at the start of the week so I couldn’t resist making some spring cupcakes but after I made these on Wednesday evening the weather suddenly changed – I woke up on Thursday morning to see it was snowing! However, these little birdies definitely helped to brighten the day. “Chirp chirp, tweet tweet, chirp…” I mean click here to keep reading.
Posted in purple, Sugarpaste flowers, Summer, Wedding Cakes, tagged purple flowers, simple wedding cake, single tier cake, wedding cake on March 24, 2015| Leave a Comment »
This wedding cake was a last minute favour for somebody at work. Luckily though, I didn’t have to make the cake, just ice and decorate an 11″ square fruit. It was a single tier cake and I loved the simplicity of the design they chose – a white cake with purple and lilac flowers around the base.
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, Easter, tagged cupcakes, Easter, mini eggs, spring baking on March 21, 2015| 4 Comments »
Word of warning – if you make these cupcakes you might end up with a speckled kitchen too! Still want to have a go at making them?
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, Nuts, Spices, Spring, Summer, tagged blossom, Delia Smith, Family Tree Cake, fruit cake, leaves, spring on March 19, 2015| 4 Comments »
Over the last few weeks it really has started to feel like spring has arrived. We now have lots of daffodils out in our garden and the sun has been shining! So I thought that this cake was perfect to blog about as it has a real spring feel to it. For our favourite fruit cake recipe and how to build your own family tree cake click here
Posted in Chocolate, Cupcakes, tagged chocolate cupcakes, cupcakes, pigs in mud, this little piggy on March 2, 2015| Leave a Comment »
In my office there is a cake trolley every Friday for charity – the charity changes each month. February’s cake trolleys were to raise money for Maggie’s Centre in Newcastle – Maggie’s offers free practical, emotional and social support to people with cancer and their families and friends. Until last week I’d been busy every Friday in February making cakes for other people. So last Friday was the first week I was able to bake something for the trolley and I wanted to make something slightly different so on Thursday night this little piggy stayed home and made these piggy-themed cupcakes!
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Iced Cakes, tagged 40th birthday cake, black white and pink, dog cake, dog lover cake, paw prints on February 23, 2015| 2 Comments »
A few weeks ago it was my 30th birthday! I knew Becky was going to make me an amazing cake for my Alice in Wonderland themed party so I made myself a simple, not decorated, white chocolate and cherry cake for the office. I did however get to make a decorated birthday cake that week for somebody else in the office. Did a dog just walk over the cake?
Gloverly Cupcakes 