Posted in Celebration Cakes, Fruit/Veg, gluten-free, Iced Cakes, Nuts, tagged birthday cake, Drip Cake, peanut butter cake, sugar paste peony on March 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »
It was my Birthday last week and I can’t think of a better way to spend the day than baking myself a cake! I don’t often get to bake exactly what I want, the cakes I usually do are for customers, so it’s really enjoyable to find a new recipe and experiment with some new designs. I am a peanut butter addict, so when I saw this recipe in Olive magazine, I had to make it! Click here for the scrummy 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, Iced Cakes, tagged birthday cake, first birthday, kids cakes, rainbow cake on January 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I spent most of the weekend in the kitchen. This would be some people’s worst nightmare, but for me it’s a pretty perfect weekend. It was also snowing/sleeting for most of the weekend so being inside was definitely the best place to be. Sunday’s challenge was to make something caramel related for the Sunday Baking Club weekly theme – so I spent most of the day stirring caramel while it thickened, and then waiting for ages for it to cool down (look out for the recipe next week). However, the task for Saturday was very different – making a first birthday cake.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, tagged birthday cake, board games, operation, operation cake on November 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Nine years ago I made Tom a birthday cake. It was the first baking I did while I was at university and the first time I’d baked anything for him. I had to go out to buy cake tins – I even had to call my mum to ask for her standard chocolate cake recipe. However, it was a fairly simple cake – an 8 inch round chocolate cake, sandwiched together with chocolate buttercream and decorated with Smarties. Since then, I’ve always tried to make Tom a cake on his birthday – I even sent him gingerbread when he was in Afghanistan – and each year I try to make something different and better than the previous year.
Last year I made him a Minion.
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Iced Cakes, tagged birthday cake, Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, kids cakes, maid minion, minion on October 17, 2014| 4 Comments »
It’s been a while since a minion has appeared on here so I thought it was about time I posted the last one I made (about 7 months ago now!). This is probably my favourite minion and I’d been waiting for somebody to ask me to make it so I was very excited when my Auntie Sarah asked if I’d be able to make one for my cousin Molly for her birthday. After I’d finished it I was really pleased with it, especially the expression – Ooooo, is that a cupcake?
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Iced Cakes, tagged birthday cake, bus, digger, train, transport cake on August 25, 2014| 2 Comments »
Kids birthday cakes are one of my favourite cakes to make, especially when I get to come up with the design myself. As much as I love making pretty wedding cakes or cupcakes, there is something so fun about making bright, bold decorations for kids/novelty cakes – they are simple to make but always look so effective. So I was really pleased when Nadeem asked if I was able to make a transport themed birthday cake for his son Zahi’s second birthday. Want to find out where the train is heading?
Posted in Celebration Cakes, Chocolate, Iced Cakes, tagged birthday cake, chocolate cake, Despicable Me, kids cakes, minion on November 19, 2013| 6 Comments »
In between making wedding cakes it was Tom’s birthday. He’s been away for the last few years on his birthday so I haven’t been able to make him a birthday cake. Therefore, this year, I wanted to make him a cake which would make up for the last few years. Not much thinking was required – he came back from a recent trip to Universal Studios with a minion water bottle, a minion mug and a set of minion pyjamas for me… so a minion cake it was! Click here if you want to bake a minion too!
