Posted in Celebration Cakes, Figure Modelling, Iced Cakes, tagged animals, christening cake, fruit cake, Noah's Ark Cake, rocky road on August 14, 2015| 1 Comment »
Noah’s Ark Christening Cake
A few weeks ago I made a Christening cake for my friends Chloe and Rory’s sons Christening. They had the lovely idea of a Noah’s Ark cake. I took some inspiration from Pinterest and had an enormous amount of fun creating this cake! Click here to see the animals marching in two by two…
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 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 Christmas, Cupcakes, Fruit/Veg, Nuts, Spices, tagged Christmas, cupcakes, fruit cake, snowman on December 4, 2014| 1 Comment »
I love a bit of Christmas baking, last year I worked my way through the cupcake recipes from the Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days book. I love the fruit cake cupcakes, the recipe is light and delicious and still has that lovely boozy fruit cake flavour. I thought these snowmen were pretty cool and as my hubby is a massive marshmallow fan I knew these would be a winner! Click here to find out how to build a snowman cupcake.
Posted in Grey, Iced Cakes, Spring, Sugarpaste flowers, Wedding Cakes, Yellow, tagged fruit cake, otters, red velvet cake, spring, wedding, woodland on September 21, 2014| 1 Comment »
I’ve been busy making a friends wedding cake over the last few weeks, so I haven’t had much time to bake anything else, so this week I am going to tell you about the most interesting Wedding cake I have made, inspired by the oak trees surrounding the venue in Richmond Park. Here’s what I made…
Gloverly Cupcakes 