Teddy Bears

Teddy Bears

I was lucky enough to attend a class with the amazing Debbie Brown who taught us  how to make her gorgeous teddy bear cake. It was such a fun day and I was very impressed with the result. The body of the bears are all carved and shaped cakes with the centre of the heads being made from polystyrene balls, it would be possible to make these from rice bubble marshmellow krispees as well to make the whole thing edible. So much fun and so adorable, who could not love those faces!

Blossom Cake

A gorgeous creamy yellow cake covered in white blossoms with a hint of shimmer.

This was a wedding cake I had been seeing versions of all over the place and wanted to give it a go.

It turned out beautifully, what I like about this cake is the options it opens up. It would look lovely in a pale pink or sage green, the blossoms could be dripping down the sides of the top layer instead of covering it or you could add a third layer in. Beautiful cake!

Birthday Cat (it's a bit late)

A Very Special Cat Cake

My oldest little girl turned TWO last October and her request was a cat cake, when I asked her what colour cat she said 'orange'. I was struggling with a design as I didn't want to make a 3D cake but a trip to Rome with some girl friends provided the answer. We walked past a little shop with bags, books, hats, umbrellas, you name it they had it all with a stylised black cat on them. A few photos later, a bit of enlarging and tweaking and bingo I had my cake pattern.

I decided on a simple buttermilk cake with strawberry icing and then I made marshmallow fondant for the icing. Yes made from scratch, it was messy, very very messy but it did taste nicer than normal sugar paste. I then decorated the board with 2 of everything.

The icing was not as perfect as I would have liked but Eloise was thrilled, she is already planning this year's cake... pink princess cake please!

Love Birds

LOVE BIRDS

A 6" double chocolate and raspberry drenched mud cake with a chocolate ganache and decorated with two litttle white and red love birds sitting on a red heart. Completed with a red and white spotted ribbon.
A lovely little cake to make, super cute on its own or as a top tier of a non-tradditional wedding cake.

Ladybird Cutie Pie

Lady Bird Cake

 

I was asked to make a 7" lady bird cake for a 2nd birthday for one of my daughter's friends.I decided on a cute wee ladybird with big eyes, fluttery eye lashes and curly antennae sitting in a garden with white and yellow daisies. It was a buttermilk sponge with a raspberry and vanilla buttercream filing. It was a hit at the birthday party. Luckily the good thing about the sugarpaste is its really easy to take the icing off the cake or lots of cake and red icing combined with jelly would have had a room of 2 year olds bouncing off the walls!

Shoes and Roses

Shoes and Roses

 

I was asked to make a small 7 inch cake for a birthday.  I decided on a shoe cake with a sugarpaste rose. Iwanted the shoe to be classic and beautiful so I went with a simple black peeptoe with a small pink heart on the instep to tie in with the pink rose. The shoe needed to be made well in advance to enable it to dry so it could support the shape, luckily I made more than one as I had a few disasters putting it together, in fact the final shoe was glued togther at the last minute when the heel snapped! 

I used pale pink flower paste to make a wired small pink rose to sit by the shoe. The writing was in french as the recipient of the cake was french and it was to be given to her during a french class she was teaching.   

The cake was a buttermilk sponge with a raspberry filing and vanilla buttercream.

Christening Cake

Christening Cake For Izzy

I was asked to help resurrect a top tier of a wedding cake that had been saved for 3 years to be used as a christening cake. First thing I will say is always take off any sugar paste icing if your going to save a cake! The icing had all almost melted underneath and made the top part of the cake turn to mush. I thought it would be nice a quick to take it all off and re-ice the fruit cake but it took me about 4 hours! We got their in the end and recoated the cake in marzipan and crisp white icing. I then decorated it with floral lace cutouts for a bit of side detail and  navy blue writing and some white and blue flowers. The navy and white colour scheme  matched Izzy's post christening dress perfectly.