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Two tier Christening cake for a brother and sister.
Cake copy of the baby's favourite toy, when she saw it she leaned over and kissed it!
Christening cake, quilted sugarpaste with edible diamonds and sugar paste bow. So hard to use the edible diamonds without them dulling! Was still replacing them just before delivering to the Christening!
Baby's number one shaped cake, decorated with hand made princess crowns and fairy wands, with a sleeping fairy baby at the side. I made cup cakes to match as well.
I was asked to make the cake in the motorcycle shape rather than put a model on top of a cake. It was for a 7 year old girl, who like her mother loved bikes. Her birthday party was even held in a local cafe well known as a meeting place for bikers!
I modelled these from sugar paste without using a mould or cutters, as this was the first time I made a shoe I was quite happy with the result. However, one snapped so I had to mend it and lay it on the shoebox cake and the repair was then invisible! The recipient loved the shoes so much that she wanted to save one unfortunately it broke as she removed it from the board, so as a surprise I made a new shoe for her. I recently heard from her that she displays it in a glass case!
Here the Simpsons represent the anniversary couple and Marge is playing a Nintendo DS with a red rug over her as the recipient of the cake does. The husband enjoys beer so Homer and his Duff beers was ideal!
Made this for a lady celebrating her birthday whilst in hospital. The sugarpaste model is a likeness of the lady, and on the bed is a miniature model of the actual cake, on that an even smaller model of the cake! A cake on a cake on a cake! I just noticed that at this stage I hadn't put ribbon around the board so it still looks a bit unfinished.
Stacked cake with simple flower and butterfly decoration and sugarpaste bible with message written with edible ink pen
I made this 40th birthday cake for a lady who loves anything to do with ships. Her daughter requested a ship or anchor to be the theme and we thought the shell and anchor design would be prettier than a ship. I used moulds for the shell and fish. I tried to make the anchor and driftwood look aged and was pleased with the result.
I made this for my grandson's 5th birthday, the characters took a while but were worth it, he was so pleased!
My daughter loves the Nightmare Before Christmas film and asked for a Jack Skellington cake for her 20th birthday. Was quite fiddly gettin all the stripes right on the board. Made mini sugarpaste pumpkins as candle holders.
3 tiers of wedding cake in colour and design to complement bridal gown. The flower ball topper is flowerpaste.The tiers were assembled at the reception venue.
This was for the 40th birthday of a man who likes to relax on the sofa watching tv, red wine and Queen's Park Rangers football team. He likes to think he only looks 28 so his wife asked that reference to this was made on the cake!
I made this for the 2011 Mad Hatters children's charity for their annual tea party and cake auction. Sculpted sponge cake covered with sugarpaste and sugarpaste models.
Tiffany key for a girl's 21st birthday, sugarpaste key and models of her pet, favourite things etc. all edible.
My grandaughter gave me a couple of days notice that she was having two parties, so I decided on this, the cupcakes were eaten at one party and the cake at the second. She asked for a 'cool, random, emo' cake, and was very pleased with this.
I was asked to make this as a surprise for a couple on their 50th wedding anniversary. Their daughters remembered seeing a photo of them on a Vespa motor scooter in the sixties. It took two attempts at the scooter (and much stress) and the wheels flattened slightly as I didn't have time to dry them right out before assembling the model as I was due to fly away on holiday! However, I tried to disguise them a bit with a few flowers!
I needed to make a cake in a hurry and based this on one I saw on this site. It was made in one night, using flower cutter, icing extruder and sugar pearls, brushed with lustre dust.
I made this for friends who moved out of London to take over a country pub, it represents them, their new pub, and them walking into the sunset.
For my sister in law's 40th birthday. She likes men in uniform, this was an easier option than full uniform!
This was for my neighbour's 90th. His grandaughter thought Grandpa from the film 'Up' looks like him, so based model on the character, and the balloons on the shed are in reference to the film. He uses a mobility scooter and used to love gardening, hence the garden theme. I used polystyrene balls inside the balloons so that they wouldn't be too heavy for the wires.
All edible, including jewellery.
Chocolate cake, 12" x 12" halved and sandwiched vertically with buttercream, covered with chocolate sugarpaste, painted freehand with gold and bronze lustre powder combined. Zipper made first then set in as would be in reality, then stitch details added with stitch wheel. Padlock, logo badge, zip pull etc all sugarpaste strengthened with CMC powder, dried before painting. Board covered with peach coloured sugarpaste, looks paler here.
I made this cake as a raffle prize to raise funds for the Marie Curie Cancer Care trust. The tea in the cups and the chocolate sauce on the profiteroles are piping gel tinted with food colouring.
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