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The couple wanted traditional flavours-base tier fruit cake, middle tier-vanilla sponge, I persuaded them to have a lemon and passion fruit top tier with white chocolate and passion fruit ganache. Their married name is "Cox" hence the apple theme and blossom. Happy with result.
Claire Bowman's Soft Gold Cake Lace and Alexandra mat. David Austin Rose, buds, berries and leaves for the top tier.
Design from Naoimi Hubert, Tea Party Cakes. I made the skull from RKT with melted chocolate added. This was a fun cake to do.
90th birthday cake using Cake Lace dusted with Sugarflair shimmer peach dust. First attempt at a David Austin rose.
A surprise cake for our lovely vet who is leaving the practice to return to his home in Ireland
90th birthday cake with Cake Lace and lemon roses.
Ruby wedding anniversary cake. First try with Cake Lace and looking forward to playing with it some more. This was the Serenity Lace Mat by Clare Bowman
Base tier Rich chocolate, middle tier vanilla, caramel an chocolate caramel layers, top tier fruit. Flowers, roses, stephanotis and dembrodium orchids set with ivy, ruscus and rose leaves. Glass vases filled with petals used as separators.
80th birthday cake for a man who played in the Salvation Army band. I couldn't manage to model a French horn so opted for sheet music on edible image and ribbon from the SA. They wanted his love of cricket and favourite cricket club depicted on the cake
Halloween cake I made last year. I loved the large skull moulds (Diamond Paste) as there was so much detail. Dracula from a book by Frances McNaugton. Gingerbread house mould used for the castle structure then fronted it with a gumpaste cut out. Needed a large cake to take all the detail so it ended up at the children's ward of the local hospital.
! wanted to look like the bunnies were in the woods hence the roughed up chocolate buttercream. Unfortunately only photos taken were before the cake drum was covered and ribboned. I gave it to my friend for her grandchildren and they loved it. Based on a Debbie Brown design.
80th birthday cake for a dear friend. Cake dummy used for the birdcage. Lindy Smith's birdcage stencil on the main cake.
Birthday cake for a dear friend who is a Formula 1 fanatic. I used the Paul Bradford tutorial which was very useful and spent many hours refining scaled templates. Then my DH stepped in who also loves F1, took the knife from me and refined my carving. This turned out to be a real team effort as he ended up piecing the component parts together e.g wheels, rear wing, front wing, spraying it and even adding the white trim. We were very happy with the end result and so was our friend. Loads of left over cake though from the carving!!
This was a "slightly" modified design I fell in love with at the NEC Cake International show in 2012. I don't know who the artist is so am unable to give justifiable credit. It was a 12" fruit cake recipe made in a 10" tin to get the extra depth then cut in half and stacked. The roof was made from a carved polystyrene dummy. This was so much fun to make and my friends were bowled over by it so I got double the pleasure.
Another Karen Davies design. Simple, but my friends loved it!
A Karen Davies design using her Love Birds mould. This consisted of 2 x 6" round cakes and a 6" half-sphere. I had to add a 6" cake dummy at the bottom to get the correct height.
Made this cake at a 2 day workshop with the wonderful Debbie Brown. She is such a great teacher. Her eye for detail is amazing. As always great fun too.
80th birthday cake for my mum who loves to bake. I wanted to include her grandaughter and great grandaughters in the scene. Two "helping" with the baking, the eldest wanted to be dancing but as the cake had to travel over 250 miles I made her doing the splits instead for stability. Latest addition to the family also included. Kitchen units and fridge freezer made from rice krispies. Marbled worktop looked very authentic. Coloured piping gel added to the kitchen sink when we reached the destination. Lots of detail in the design but I really enjoyed making this. Mum loved it.
A Karen Davies design.
A lovely design by Alan Dunn.
A lovely design by Karen Davies. I really enjoyed doing this one and the recipients loved it.
Surprise birthday cake for my friend who loves shopping at TK Maxx. She wears clog-type shoes rather than delicate heels and loves handbags. She is very partial to a glass (or two) of champagne. Her dog, Toffee, usually attends celebrations with an ornate collar or bandana, but this time she was dressed in the TK Maxx till roll. All edible except the champagne bottle and glass. Edible images around the side of the cake. A fun cake to make.
Cake made for our village to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. We have had a wonderful weekend of celebration here in the UK. Bottom tier had edible images of Queen Elizabeth throughout her life, as a baby, growing up, engagement, wedding, coronation to the present. Crown was pastllage (nightmare to work with). The cross which should have been on the top snapped just before it had to be presented so had to replace it with an "emerald".
Christening cake for a little girl. First time making poppies and I didn't find them easy. At one stage as I broke yet another petal I was wishing she was called Rose or Daisy! I added the teddy bear at the last minute to make it look more like a baby cake. Pleased with the end result but I still struggle attaching flower sprays to the sides of cakes. Customer loved it.
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