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St Valentine's Day Cupcakes. Lemon sponge with lemon buttercream and sugarpaste toppers. My first attempt at making toppers.
The 40th birthday cake for my school friend. Terry Pratchett's Discworld. A 10" chocolate sponge for Great A'Tuin the turtle, orange or lemon sponge for the 4 elephants, and a 10" vanilla sponge for the Disc itself. All covered in ganache and sugar paste.
A model of St George's parish church for a fundraising evening. Mainly chocolate sponge covered in ganache and sugar paste, the roof space also being vanilla sponge. The spire is flower paste secured with Royal Icing. Complete with clergy at the font door.
12" chocolate covered in ganache and Sugarpaste. A board game for my school friend's 40th birthday. 'Sheffield Shares' is a property trading style game similar to Monopoly. We played this game as teenagers virtually every week.
7" vanilla with blackberry jam buttercream and 10" chocolate for my Goddaughter's baptism.
8" hexagonal rich fruit cake covered in sugar paste (and no marzipan). for my husband's Aunt's 80th birthday. This was a tentative attempt at writing directly onto the side of the cake with RI.
My husband's 41st birthday cake. 8" chocolate hexagonal sponge on top of 6" hexagonal chocolate. Dr Who's TARDIS console. More of a retro look from the 1980s. Although once I borrowed Patrick Troughton and the Dalek form my nephew there was a scale issue.
A 6" rich fruit covered in marzipan and panels of sugarpaste (fondant). An 8" chocolate covered in sugarpaste. All gluten free as my Goddaughter's grandmother is coeliac. My first attempt at stacking a cake using plastic dowels. The writing is royal icing, unfortunately my script is a little shaky.
A mini castle cake for my niece. An 8" round chocolate filled with vanilla buttercream. Covered in sugarpaste (fondant), the turrets are made out of small cupcakes and the turrets are wafer ice cream cones....unfortunately the pantile roofing effect I was going for didn't quite work, as my family all thought they looked more like trees!!! Not the easiest project as I had to travel up to my Mum's on the train (3 hours journey) carrying the cake ready baked and some of my cake decorating tools. So I tried to keep the design simple! Luckily the birthday girl loved it.
My first attempt at a figure...my husband is a keen skier and wears yellow trousers, the hands fell off an hour before the party, and he kept leaning backwards so he ended up with an internal support system of cocktail sticks! The cake was 4 layers of chocolate covered in sugarpaste. The trees are white chocolate cornflake buns coloured green, but very few people wanted to try and eat the trees :)
A lemon sponge with lemon butter cream for my friend's 46th birthday....unfortunately I got the candles mixed up ;) On top is Dr Who's TARDIS, made from chocolate cake and covered in sugarpaste....and a midget gem! :)
Made for my sister inlaw's birthday, and decorated by my 11 year old niece. 8" coffee, filled with coffee buttercream and 6" chocolate filled with chocolate fudge buttercream. Covered with a thin layer of vanilla buttercream and then sugarpaste (fondant icing). All pink accents sugarpaste dyed using different amounts of red paste food colour. It tasted good too :)
7inch fruit. A layer of marzipan baked half way inside the cake, covered in another layer of marzipan and 11 marzipan balls signifying the disciples of Jesus minus Judas. Also my first attempt at flowers using 50/50 sugarpaste and modellingpaste.
My Dad's 80th birthday. 2 layers vanilla with 1 layer of chocolate. Filled with vanilla buttercream, and covered in milk chocolate ganache and then sugarpaste (fondant). All piping accents are cola licorice laces. Raised up on blocks of rice krispies, to make room for the black fondant wheels.
We were invited to bring paintbrushes and tools to a practical 'party' for a young couple soon to be married and moving into their first house...so I took a cake :) 8" lemon sponge covered and filled with lemon buttercream. Rice Krispie bars with moulded paintbrush handles. Unfortunately my piping skills left a lot to be desired, but all the workers thoroughly enjoyed eating it!
For my Goddaughter, my first attempt at a stacked cake using dowels. Top layer 6" rich fruit, covered in marzipan and panels of pink and white fondant. Bottom layer 8" chocolate filled with buttercream, covered in pink and white fondant. All gluten free as the baby's grandmother is coeliac. I think I should have turned the top layer another turn to the left! Names piped with Royal icing, and I unfortunately developed quite a shaky script...
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