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16th birthday cake a young lady who is very talented at archery. Although not the most feminine of cakes, her mum said that knowing her daughter as she does, she simply couldn't have ordered anything else but this!!
Birthday cake for a fun loving, Louboutin-wearing 70 year old lady who is known for her love of everything leopard print. Carole is celebrating with a fabulous party and according to her daughter-in-law, Carole will be dancing until the early hours! Leopard print all hand-painted and sugar shoe entirely hand-made with no formers or molds!
I've just realised that I've made all of Harry's birthday cakes! And by all accounts from his mum, he's a proper cheeky monkey! LOL! I'm afraid I don't know who to credit with the original design of this cake - the customer sent me a pic of a cake she wanted for him. Inside is a new flavour for me - banoffee.... banana flavour sponge, spread with a thin layer of caramel and filled with caramel flavour buttercream.
Happy 18th birthday to Hayley... I remember Hayley when she was at primary school (her younger sister was in the same class as my son) and so I can't quite believe she's all growed up now!! Hayley's mum designed this cake for her - red curtains and drama masks for the shows that Hayley's been in, and featuring an edible image of a microphone on the front, for her beautiful singing voice and musical notes on the cake board.! Inside is a delicious chocolate sponge, filled with chocolate buttercream and the outside is decorated with chocolate curls (I hear H is a bit of a chocolate fan!)
4 tier wedding cake with lace, ribbons and bows, topped with hand-made bride & groom topper.
Warmest congratulations to Celia & Paul who were married today. Celia came to me with a few cake designs that she liked and between us, we designed this elegant 5 tier cake with beautiful edible Cake Lace, midnight blue ribbon, pearls, surname initial monogram and topped with a hand-made sugar peony. Many thanks to Claire Bowman at Cake Lace for allowing me me to incorporate her idea on the use of the Cake Lace.
Vanilla sponge with jam & buttercream, covered with marzipan and sugarpaste. I used 3 x 5" cakes to make this.
14" dummy'; 12" cake; 10" dummy; 8" cake, 6" dummy, 4" cake. All cakes were vanilla sponge with jam and buttercream. The dummy tiers were 6" tall and the cakes were 3" tall (my cakes are usually deeper than that, but kept them shallower for the design!) This isn't my design, so I cannot take credit for it - the customer brought me a picture of a cake that she wanted.
10" round and 6" ball cake in caramel flavour sponge with buttercream. Hand-rolled balls around the base of the cake and edible images on the sugarpaste scarf. I'm going to the party later - always feels strange when I'm at a party I've made the cake for!
Congratulations to Patricia & Barry who celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary today. 6 dozen chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream swirls, topped with hand-made flowers with gold centres and sugarpaste discs hand-piped with royal icing which was then painted with edible gold lustre.
Huge thank you to Alisa555 - not only for allowing me to copy her cake design, but also for her help and advice.
2 tiers of chocolate sponge, filled with chocolate buttercream, covered with marzipan and sugarpaste and topped with a real mirror ball.
Customer knew exactly how she wanted the cake decorated! Hello Kitty topper provided by customer. Leopard print hand-painted (first time ever!!) The Hello Kitty heads on wires were actually little plastic rings! I cut the ring part off and royal iced the wire to the back.
Close-up of the edible Cake Lace and sugar cameo (which I made using a mould from FPC Sugar Craft)
Small figures provided by the customer.
Simple little cake with Care Bear figures provided by the customer. This cake makes me smile!
Vanilla cookies, decorated with royal icing. Gerberas and letters from modelling paste.
Just a simple birthday cake... the customer wanted a 'nod' to her husband's favourite football team, without it being a 'football cake'. So I suggested doing the decoration and cake board in the team's colours. She also ordered 30 matching cookies.
Firstly , a huge thanks to 'Sweet Ambs' for her fabulous video tutorial on how to do this design! I was asked for "cookies in the shape of 70, in pink and white"... JUST the excuse I've been waiting for to try this technique! And even someone like me who doesn't have a HUGE amount of experience with royal icing managed to do them! I love how they've turned out - those pretty roses remind me of vintage china!
11" square chocolate sponge with chocolate buttercream, covered with marzipan and sugarpaste. The chess pieces are all made from chocolate - the dark chocolate ones were sprayed with edible paint to enhance their colour, but unfortunately they haven't photographed very well... they just merge into each other and the cake! I received such a lovely message from the customer "Dear Suzanne - Just echoing Lynn's comment, what a wonderful cake. Matt and I love chess but sadly we didn't have time for a game with the cake (although it was totally plausible as it was so perfect! ). An amazing creation and to be honest if we hadn't already paid you I would have written you a cheque mate...x " I'm beaming from ear to ear - it doesn't get much better than that!!
These toppers are awaiting their cupcakes (will pipe and buttercream swirl and then place the discs on top). Rather in love with these!! All hand-cut modelling paste - no edible images!
Red and gold Valentine's Day cupcakes... Light and fluffy vanilla sponge cupcakes, filled with a vanilla buttercream and then topped with sugarpaste.
The customer said her son was hoping for a Rolex for his 18th... but apparently this is the closest he is going to get! LOL!!! 7" vanilla sponge with jam and buttercream, covered with marzipan and sugarpaste. The watch is an embellished edible image for the face and sugarpaste surround and strap. HUGE thanks to Faradays Cakes, who uploaded a step-by-step picture of how she did the watch face.
You can't say our family doesn't have a sense of humour... it might be a bit warped, but we definitely have a sense of humour! Unfortunately, due to a medical condition, my son was put on a special liquid-only diet just before Christmas; for 6 weeks he was only allowed to drink this special formula which we made up each day. No food or other drinks (apart from bottled water) at all! He's only started eating again in the last couple of weeks, so we liked the irony of a cake of the formula he had!
Happy 70th birthday to Arthur, a life-long Tottenham Hotspur Football Club fan!
Cup of coffee cake for my brother-in-law's 40th surprise birthday party! The cup measured 2.5" at the base and 3.5" at the top so I did cakes twice that size... 5" bottom tier, a 6" cake in the middle and the top was a 7" cake. It was almost 12" tall. All chocolate cakes, with chocolate buttercream and covered with rich dark chocolate ganache before being covered with sugarpaste. The lid was home-made Rice Krispie Treats, covered with melted white chocolate to help smooth and then covered with sugarpaste.
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