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This was a surprise Birthday cake for Priya who just turned 18 yesterday. Sugar ruffle and poppy cake with a touch of the Parisienne with a hand painted Eiffel Tower topper (hidden behind the poppies) as Priya is leaving to go to Edinburgh University to study French this year, fitting since the red and black are very typical of French themes and moulin rouge colours. Design is based on a cake by Dillicious Cakes who graciously allowed me to replicate the ruffle and damask.
You know when you get a cake that you fight with from start to finish? This was one of them. It did not want to play ball….literally! This was my first attempt at a sugar ruffle pomander and those little suckers did not want to stay put, just when i thought they might be completely adhered to the ball, id turn it over to do the underside and the top side ruffles would fall off…and that happened like 6 times. In the end I used royal icing and left the half covered ball in the sunlight to dry quicker before attempting the under side. I was originally using piping gel. As with most of my cakes, i wing it and hope for the best. Original design credit goes to Cakes 2 Cupcakes & Yummy cupcakes and cakes who are masters of the floating tier and ruffle ball cakes.
This is a sweet 16th birthday cake made last weekend, adorned with sugar corsage flowers and brooches. The pink tier was lustred but it doesn’t show up well on photo’s and the tiara on top was made following a tutorial by couture cakes by Rose. First attempt at corsage flowers, very much inspired by cotton & crumbs designs. :-).
This cake was made for a client that was going on maternity leave and wanted to let all her colleagues know how much she would miss them. She is going to have a baby boy, hence the baby blue colour, with gumpaste booties and baby to top it off.
This cake was for Maya who just turned 2 years old. The brief was something pink, girly with flowers and butterflies. Gold scroll work is a fave finishing touch of mine so I had to add it somewhere.
This cake was from last year that I forgot to post. Tiers are orange cake with grand marnier syrup, orange curd and orange buttercream, lemon cake with limoncello syrup, lemon curd and lemon buttercream, red velvet with cinnamon cream cheese frosting and ferrero rocher chocolate cake. Sugar flowers of open and closed peonies, david austin roses (at the back of the bouquet), sweet peas, hydrangeas and buds. This was a first attempt at both rosette ruffles (8 hours) and horizontal pleats (4 hours)…one word for both techniques …ball ache! Pardon my french.
This wedding cake had four flavours. vanilla, chocolate mud cake, red relvet and fruit cake. I was lucky to be given some creative licence to put together the cake in any way I wanted within the colour scheme.
This cake was made for a very special client of mine. She has ordered many cakes from me in the past and has referred me to others on numerous occaisons, so when i found out her 40th birthday was coming up, i decided to surprise her with this as a way of saying thank you. I took inspiration for the design of this cake from a gorgeous set of gold and blush pink china cups and saucers i have in my kitchen. Cake is finished with a wafer paper flower brushed with shades of gold and blush pink to give a faded vintage look.
This cake was my first attempt at wafer flowers, something ive been waiting to do for a very long time. Cake is two tiers vanilla with raspberry and gananched in white chocolate.
A selecton of elaborate cupcakes in hues of purple and lilac adorned with sugar brooches, roses, ruffles, cameos, bows and hydrangeas for an engagment party.
Two tier birthday cake for a 2 year old girl. Top tier extended to 8" tall, Maggie Austin ruffles, sugar flowers and sugar butterflies
A collection of elaborate Rococo inspired gold and ivory fondant wedding cupcakes with edible sugar brooches & flowers hand painted with gold lustre finished with genuine victorian antique lace. They accompanied a two tier wedding cake in a cupcake tower.
This cake was a labour of love, having never really made this many flowers (over 50 individually wired open peonies, roses, lilies, orchids and hydrangeas) and never really tried dusting them either i had no idea how long it would take to cut out, vein, dry, wire and dust. And imagine my surprise when i sneazed into a kleenex and the result was purple bogies (sorry if that grossed you out) but lesson learned is wear a face mask if dusting again and dont assume you’ve got the last of it up off the floor after mopping up. About the cake, 4 tiers delivered yesterday, two tiers with a henna pattern edible lace.
This cake is inspired by ballerinas. Tier one represents an elegant airy tutu with lots of pale pink girly ruffles which then makes way to 3 more tiers that feature ornate gilded scrolls made from gum paste, a bit like the scroll work one would see at the royal opera house where ballets are performed. The ballerina topper is also made from gumpaste and non toxic gold glitter…not sure if its called edible glitter any more. I took indoor and out door shots and couldnt decide which looked better so i decided to post the lot.
This design is heavily based on a gorgeous cake by Heavenly Angel Cakes who made a such a lovely sophisticated cake I just had to make something similar and I hope i did her design justice with this one. Ruffles rather than flowers on the bottom tier of this one and a few diamante brooches to finish off.
Simple clean design of one giant red rose on all white background.
4 tier ivory pillow cake in alternating vanilla and lemon flavours. Cake adorned with flowers, pearls and lace.
Three tier wedding cake in chocolate mudcake, vanilla and carrot cake flavour embellished with over 50 painstaking lace butterflies in graduating pinks
Ivory with gold accents, second cake of this design I have had the pleasure of creating. Four tiers of Madagascan vanilla, Lemon with limoncello, Ferrero rocher and Carrot cake.
Vintage romance in roses and pearls
I was given carte blanche on the design of this four tier cake with only the colour specified, " Ivory/cream with a touch of gold". This was delivered with 168 cupcakes.
Ghostbusters firehouse cake. Made with 6 chocolate mud cakes filled with milk chocolate ganache and measuring 10" x 10" x 7" wide.
Extended tier cake with 1200+ hand rolled and individually applied fondant pearls. Inspiration from Sweet sweets.
Romanitic/vintage two tier vanilla and white chocolate mud cake delivered this weekend. Cake ganached in white chocolate and is covered in marshmallow fondant, flowers made out of gumpaste and brush embroidery piping with royal icing. This has been one of my most requested designs and was delivered with 340 cupcakes.
White on White 3 tier cake, lace roses and pearls, more romantic vintage style.
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