Princess Leia Boushh Birthday Cake

My son's 8th Birthday cake - his request! :) A Lego Boushh, the bounty hunter disguise for Leia from Return of the Jedi. The cake is held up with pipe framework, the base (legs) are carved rice krispies, with two trimmed chocolate loaf tin cakes on top. The head is a small dummy cake, covered with fondant and piped royal icing. The arms are fondant covered pipes, which are held in place by the loaves, as I couldn't find a 'T' junction that wasn't bulky. Features/decoration all piped or painted on. Boushh's helmet is also chocolate cake covered with fondant. The board covering is royal icing with edible Rainbow sparkles.

Millennium Falcon Birthday Cake

8" Chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream. Grey fondant rolled icing, with royal icing piped over in three shades of grey. The board is covered with black royal icing and silver Rainbow Dust. The dish is formed and dried sugarpaste, which is held in place by a piece of spaghetti that I have fastened with royal icing. The gun is also made with spaghetti which I have painted black with food colour gel.

Rabbit Carrot Cake

Guinea Pig Birthday Cake

Guinea Pig Cake

Skylanders Portal Of Power - Light Up Birthday Cake

Skylanders Portal of Power. Vanilla sponge with 'sprinkles' for colour. Top cake has a circular hole removed. I used a solar powered colour changing bulb (from pound shop) and sunk this into the hole. The pillars are carved from rice crispy bars and covered in fondant. In between the pillars is grey coloured frosting. The disc on the top is rolled painted sugarpaste, left to harden, it sits on top of the pillar inners and covers the exposed light bulb. Glows more at dusk but you can just see a green light underneath the skylander. I used a real skylander on top.

Power Rangers Birthday Cake

A fairly simple one this, just used coloured fondant and painting the lettering and Power Rangers on top. This was for a 7th Birthday, although the candle looks like a 1 :) It was a coloured sponge cake made using sprinkles.

Pirate Party Cake

Sponge cake, with fondant icing. I decorated this by painting the icing with sponges and paintbrushes and my food colouring. I copied a treasure map that we were using for the party.

Mr Tickle From The Mr Men

My little boy's 3rd Birthday Cake. Sponge cake with coloured butter frosting. Fondent arms and hat. Sugarpaste letters with funky template.

Mike The Knight Castle Cake

Cbeebies Mike the Knight Castle Cake for my son's 4th Birthday. (Mummy you forgot the tree... and I'm missing a square tower and a bridge but hey ho!) Square sponge with Nutella filling. Royal icing with royal icing 'cobbles'. Walls and towers made from coloured rice crispy/sugar puff and marsh mallow mixture. Fondant board, draw bridge and windows. Cornets for turrets with royal icing tiles. Sugarpaste Mike the Knight, shield and flags (on florist wire).

Violin Cookies

Violin Cookes decorated with royal icing.

Octonauts Birthday Cake

For my daughter's 6th Birthday I had the request for an Octonatuts Cake. The Gup A is made from chocolate covered crispies and covered in fondant. The board is iced in royal icing. The cake (coral reef) is a vanilla sponge covered in royal icing. The figures are fondant with sugarpaste fish. There are also gelatin bubbles/rocks.

Cupcake Bouquet

Mini cupcake bouquet using Wilton 2D Drop Flower Tip for the roses. Real gypsophilia for filling inbetween the cakes to cover the dome. For my Mum for Mother's Day :)

Zebra Cake

Large sponge with vanilla filling. Small sponge on top for his head. Rolled fondant with black fondant gently rolled into the white with a sugar paste rolling pin. 'Funky' letters zebrafied with a food colouring pen. For my daughter's 5th Birthday.

Shoe Box Birthday Cake

Two chocolate cakes with vanilla filling. Shoe boxes/lids made with fondant. Happy 40th is real ribbon. Sugarpaste shoes made using the jem shoe cutter as a base for the ruby slipper, the wedge was supported with a small piece of foam which was left in situ and sugar paste applied around. Two shoes are copies of original shoes recently purchased, the ruby slipper is a long standing favourite. For my sister's 40th Birthday. The ruby slipper is sitting on a fondant yellow brick road and is covered with disco dust thanks for the tip from cc.

Gnasher From Dennis The Menace

Three tier sponge cake for the base, the shoulders are make up from pieces of a smaller cake. The head is a great cheat (found on CC) using chocolate/rice crispies mix molded in 2 small dishes with a dowel through the middle, I sculpted the muzzle from chocolate/rice crispies mix too. Butter cream coating with piped 'fur' and features. Using glaze for the first time for his nose and eyes. The red and black stripes are fondant, with a fondant bone (which held the candles) and sugarpaste (FMM Funky Alphabet) lettering. Birthday cake for my Nephew's 9th Birthday, he's Beano Bonkers!

Timmy Time Cake

Made with a small loaf tin and three small round tins. Coffee sponge with chocolate filling. Fondant icing followed by a thin white butter cream applied with a paint brush to get the 'swirl' effect. My first 'sit up' cake, took 4 hours to put together and I was really happy with it, although Timmy looks a bit grumpy!

Hello Kitty Cake

Double layer vanilla sponge with chocolate filling. Simple to ice this one! The features and bow are sugarpaste.

Carousel Birthday Cake

Made for my daughter's 4th Birthday. Bottom layer vanilla sponge with chocolate filling. Top layer of carousel is based on a rainbow sponge using blue, pink and cream. All sugar paste apart from the central support and six dowel supports. Took a week to make more or less, and I loved making it. Thanks to all those other carousels on Cake Central for tips and ideas!

Iggle Piggle Birthday Cake

5 vanilla sponge cakes (3 bread tin, 1 round and 1 small roasting pan) to make Iggle Piggle! Chocolate fudge filling. All components of Iggle Piggle made up as separate 'cakes' so that I could start whilst the last cakes were cooking (under a bit of time pressure!). Fondant covering. Fondant accents. The grass is coloured coconut and the round 'ball' flowers made from fondant covered in coconut. For my son's 1st Birthday, an Iggle Piggle from In the Night Garden. He adores watching this programme. I enjoyed making this cake, my largest so far using 5 cakes, I only finished it this morning so hope it tastes ok!

Cd Stereo Player Birthday Cake

Double layer vanilla sponge cake with a cream filling. Rolled fondant with silver edible paint and a dusting of silver powder over the top. The speakers are also double layer sponge. All accents made with fondant or sugar paste. There is also a wire and plug coming out of the back.

Carpenter's Birthday Cake

Two layer sponge cake with cream filling. Fondant and sugar paste covering and accents. The 'notes' are made from rice paper and written on using an food colouring writing pen so are also edible.

Cadbury Chocolate Bar Cake

Double layer chocolate cake with chocolate fudge filling. (Made for a chocoholic!) The silver paper and label were made with fondant. The individual chocolate chunks were covered with chocoalte grenache. Labelled 'Bobbury" instead of Cadbury as made for a Robert!

Pool / Snooker Birthday Cake

Triple layer chocolate sponge cake with fresh cream and jam in the middle. Fondant covering with sugarpaste and fondant accents.

Peppa Pig And Friends Birthday Cake

3 x 7" tri-colour sponge cake with choc butter cream filling. Covered with fondant. Characters made from sugar paste. My first Peppa cake, many thanks to all those other Peppa cakes on CC that inspired me!!! Peppa Pig, George and all her little play group friends.