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Out of the 10 Christmas cakes I made this year, I hand painted these two - I would have loved to have hand painted them all - but time did not permit.
Reindeer heads cut from tartan icing sheet with sparkly red nose added along with holly and berries.
Fondant covered Chocolate Ganache Buttercream cake made for my Great Niece, Maddie who is 3 years old today. She likes the characters Bing and Flop on the BBC Childrens programme, so I made the character from modelling paste to go on the top of her cake along with hand painting the funfair rides with food pastes and pens.
Spring flowers - for my Aunt Barbara's 80th birthday, made with the help of Peggy Porschen's book. Pink Ranuncula's, Grape Hyacinths, daffodils, primroses and pink roses on the board.
For my great niece Emily's 9th birthday - Miss Fairy Pug, chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream covered in sugar paste and hand painted with food colour dusts.
For my son's mate Speedy's leaving party, he was emigrating from the UK to join the rest of his family (mum, dad and brother) who were now living in Australia.
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Made with love for my mum's 80th birthday, bottom tier is vanilla and strawberry cake with strawberry buttercream, top tier is peach cake with peach buttercream (big issue with bulging but never mind) handmade gumpaste roses, hydrangeas, filler flowers on top, paper butterflies glued on with a bit of royal icing and on the bottom tier I hand painted lilacs.
For my brother-in-law, Bill's 60th Birthday.
For my great-niece Maddie's first birthday
Birthday cake made for my Uncle to celebrate his 80th Birthday, but left the "eight oh" off and named the cake "A long and enjoyable gardening leave cake".
Cake made for my great niece, Emily's 9th birthday - as she is learning about different languages at school at the moment I hand painted "Happy Birthday Emily" in Chinese (I hope I got the characters right). Chocolate Ganache filled and covered cake with fondant covering, 50/50 fondant/gumpaste Pandas and bamboo.
Birthday cake made for my mum's friend, Joyce who is 83 years young today. Vanilla sponge with vanilla buttercream and raspberry jam fillings, covered in sugar paste, with hand made spring/summer flowers.
*I made this cake for a baby boy's christening, the original idea came from Leslie of Royal Bakery, she has a great tutorial for the sneakers and very graciously agreed that I could use her design (I did make a few changes). The truck is made from rice krispie treats, milky bars, chocolate money (for wheels) all covered in fondant/flowerpaste mix 50/50, with dolly mixtures in the back. The cakes are vanilla , with vanilla buttercream and raspberry jam. I loved making this cake and the decs.
Christmas Robins - Oh how I enjoyed hand painting this 13" x 9" Christmas cake, then piping some royal icing on for the snow on the branch and sprinkling with edible sparkly dust. This is a special christmas cake that I make each year for a local charity which provides temporary accomodation for homeless people. It gives me so much pleasure to be able to create something for people who are less fortunate.
I made eleven Christmas cakes this year as presents to give to family and friends, 10 of them I decorated with Sparkly Christmas Trees and Holly.
Birthday cake made for my niece, her parents had bought her and her sister a puppy (the large one) who is called Dudley, the cake is called Dudley and his naughty friends, Scotty, Spotty and Sausage visit the butcher's shop. She was delighted with her cake which was chocolate and ganache covered in fondant, the dogs I made from modelling chocolate.
This 25th Wedding Anniversary cake I made for my second cousin and her husband as a present from our family. two tiers are chocolate with chocolate ganache filling, one tier lemon with lemoncurd buttercream. The top two tiers have the words stencilled "Love and Laughter - Happily everafter". I made the roses and peony decoration from gumpaste and wrapped each tier with ribbon and lace. Please excuse the grubby background - the photos were taken at the venue where the cake was setup (not in my kitchen!)
This is my kind of first stacked 3 tier wedding cake (apart from my own) that I have made, The bride wanted a cascading swathe of yellow roses, the colour to match the bridesmaids dresses, so I made about 60 gumpaste roses and buds along with some small white filler flowers and leaves to decorate.
Many Many thanks to newsmum who very kindly let me use her design for this cake. My niece asked me to make this cake for her neighbour/friend who fosters children, this was for a little boy they had fostered from 4 weeks old and they were very sorry and happy at the same time to be losing him to adoptive parents and wanted to give him an early birthday party with his favourite tv characters - PEPPA PIG AND GEORGE - Marley was absolutely delighted with his cake.
Thank you so much Gentlebee for allowing me to use your design, my brother was delighted with his birthday cake. Fondant covered vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and raspberry jam. Fred Flinstone was drawn freehand onto an icing sheet and coloured with edible ink pens, RI for the coconut trees
This is my first time making open peony flowers, please feel free to comment on any improvements I can make. I used the tutorial from shivssweetdelights blogspot which I found very helpful. Thankyou
Made this cake for my niece's 7th birthday, it's vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and jam filling covered in fondant. The cats were drawn onto a sugar sheet and cut out with an exacto knife the painted with pearl baby pink food colour, detail drawn with food colour pen.
I had great fun making this cake for Jess's 3rd birthday, the original design is one of Debbie Brown's. The frilly tutu petticoat took forever to attach and I had to use short cut up straws between each layer for them to dry out without flopping down. The cake is vanilla madeira with vanilla buttercream and raspberry jam. carved and covered in fondant, with fondant tutu and skirt, body and head made from modelling paste. with magic edible sparkle dust.
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