Enchanted Fairy Garden
It's funny how sometimes previous cake designs can inspire several others. This was one such cake. Amelia asked for a Grace-style garden with a Beatrice-style topper, so this triple layer 8" double chocolate cake was covered in a delicate shade of green with hand painted meadow grasses and decorated with hand made miniature trailing roses (thanks AGAIN to Selma at Little Apple Cakes for her wonderful tutorial), shimmering lustred butterflies and pretty pink toadstools. The fairy was sculpted entirely from sugarpaste (no modelling chocolate this time!) and sits within a halo of lilac trailing roses. This style of cake puts me in tune with my inner girly-girl and I have to confess I really love it. I hope you do too :) https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.824921960895613.1073741971.376930285694785&type=3
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Superheroes!
What is it about 4 year old boys and superheroes?! Another version of my very popular two tier superhero cake. A 7" chocolate square was airbrushed with a sunset and finished with an urban cityscape made with individually hand cut sugarpaste skyscrapers. It was topped with a 5" vanilla cube decorated to look like an apartment block, complete with a cat in one of the windows and a fire escape running from the roof. The superheroes were sculpted from sugarpaste too so this cake was 100% edible.
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London Calling!
This cake was made for a chap who loves everything about London. The 8" vanilla layer cake was hand painted, free hand, with the London(ish! - a bit of artistic license was employed!) skyline; the 6" chocolate cake was decorated with sugarpaste cut outs of iconic London sights including a Bearskin Guard, policeman, London cab, the underground logo, a telephone box, post box and a double decker bus; and the 4" zingy lemon cake was decorated with the union jack (had to get my protractor and ruler out again!). The whole thing was topped with a sugarpaste model of Kok Song holding a microphone as he loves public speaking. I loved making this cake (particularly painting the skyline), and celebrating my nationality a bit in the process! https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.803504903037319.1073741955.376930285694785&type=3
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Superman!
Three tiers (8" choc, 6" vanilla, 4" choc) decorated with a Superman Metropolis theme. Thanks to Custom Cutterz for supplying the large Superman logo. Everything else was hand cut and hand sculpted, and 100% edible. The windows on the buildings were just 3mm square and nearly caused several tantrums!
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6 Tiers With Sugar Flowers
This cake required me to take a giant LEAP outside my comfort zone. I haven't really done many flowers in the past because I didn't think I would be able to make them look realistic. Leave it to the professionals, I thought. But every so often an order comes along that you just can't refuse, so it was time to pull my finger out and LEARN! HUGE thanks to the awesomely talented Helenna from ClearlyCake who, in just under 4 hours, managed to train my furnace-hot, chubby fingers to make beautiful sugar freesias. Without her expert tuition this cake simply wouldn't have been possible. Also pleased with the way my self-taught wired roses, leaves and hypercium berries turned out. It took over 2 weeks to create and colour the 40 roses, 20 freesia sprays, 100 hypercium berries and 22 triple rose leaf clusters need to really fill this cake out, and I tried to make it balanced but natural-looking. Chocolate orange marble cake to feed 300 was the order of the day!
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Still Rockin'
Bill is a blues man and I wanted to provide him with a 'stage', so kept this 8" zingy lemon cake in simple matt black so the topper would be the star of the show. Literally! Bill was sculpted from modelling chocolate and clothed with sugarpaste. He is playing his favourite 'Les Paul' Gibson guitar (an edible image mounted on hand cut flower paste) and sits on a sugarpaste Fender amp. His grandsons, Charlie and Niall (both sculpted from sugarpaste) sit at his feet, playing and clapping along. The font for his name was borrowed from the Gibson logo and hand cut from sugarpaste. Happy Birthday Bill. You're way cooler than I will ever be.
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French Farmhouse
Carved from four 13"x9" chocolate cakes, stacked and layered with salted chocolate buttercream, this cake stood 12" tall and was presented on a 15" x 15" board. Made in celebration of their 50th Wedding Anniversary, it was carved and decorated to look like the French Farmhouse Gareth & Sue retired to. It was over 30 hours in the making and had 196 hand cut 5mm window panes and hand painted cobbled walls, but was enormous fun to make :)
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Woodland Den
To celebrate his 6th Birthday Ollie’s parents were treating him and his classmates to a woodland adventure party, where he was promised den-building, campfire-making, tent-dwelling, bow-and-arrow-shooting, marshmallow-toasting and hot-chocolate-drinking! They asked me to make a cake to reflect that theme, depicting the boys in their school uniform. This triple layer 9" chocolate cake was sandwiched and covered with salted chocolate buttercream and decorated to look like a woodland den with airbrushed detailing and hand crafted sugarpaste figures. It was 100% edible with the exception of the toasting forks, which I made out of florist wire, and the candles in the campfire! Such fun to make!
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Woodland Bunnies
A deep triple layer 6" vanilla cake sandwiched with whipped vanilla buttercream and decorated to look like a woodland tree stump with hand scored bark detailing and airbrushed moss and wood tones. Finished with hand sculpted and hand painted toadstools, acorns, ivy, ladybirds and a little mouse peeking from the stump, and topped with two cheeky rabbits. 100% edible. I loved making this one.
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Beatrix Potter Christening Cake
A two tier (bottom 8" chocolate, top 6" vanilla) cake covered with vintage ivory sugarpaste and hand painted with meadow grass, pink and blue foxgloves, bluebells and bulrushes and teeny tiny dragonflies, topped with edible models of Jemima Puddleduck and Mrs Tiggy-Winkle (sculpted from sugarpaste and hand painted). We made the duck eggs too although we're not sure Ms Puddleduck would have been careless enough to leave them scattered about like that!
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Enchanted Garden Baby Shower Cake
Jo wanted a pretty garden themed cake to celebrate the imminent arrival of her little girl, so this two tier vanilla cake was covered in delicate pinks and greens and decorated with hand painted meadow grasses, miniature trailing roses, butterflies and toadstools, and topped with a cute baby girl which Jo can keep after the shower. Thanks again to Selma at Little Apple Cakes for her miniature rose tutorial.
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Choral Diva
8" carrot cake, 6" lemon cake, 4" vanilla cake, all wrapped in edible printed choral version of Happy Birthday, with a hand sculpted sugarpaste choir (more of a chamber choir really - there were only 10 of them!) and topped with a sugar effigy of the Birthday girl. This cake was made with buckets of love for a very special someone
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Stack Of Books
It's such an honour to be asked to make a 100th Birthday cake, and today Eileen celebrated her century at Fulham Football Club, surrounded by her family. This cake was a celebration of her life and reflects her love of crosswords and the encyclopedic knowledge she has developed as a result, and her passion for red roses. It also hints at her Irish roots, and her love for Fulham. And she was hugely excited to be receiving a telegram from the Queen, so that's there too. If you look closely you will see the names of all her family have been filled in to the crossword. Everything on the board was edible. The books are made from coffee cake (Eileen's favrouite, of course!), the pen was made from gumpaste with edible gold paint detailing, the roses and foliage were sugar too and even the telegram and picture frame were edible too - the telegram was an edible printed image (with HUGE thanks, once again, to Mel at The Cake Revolution) which was mounted on a pastillage board and stand and finished with sugarpaste scroll work which I then painted with edible gold paint. It was quite a cake to make, but well worth the effort for such a milestone occasion.
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Freddie Mercury
When Heidi ordered a Queen themed cake for her husband's 40th there was just one image that popped into my head and no matter how many other designs I contemplated this was the one that I kept coming back to. Freddie, centre stage in his iconic yellow jacket, over a white vest and white military trousers. Freddie was sculpted from modelling chocolate (another first for me!) with sugarpaste head, hands and clothes, and hand painted detailing. The cake itself (8" triple layer choc) was left deliberately plain, but I did give it a coat of edible lacquer to give it a bit of showbiz pizzazz. I hope Freddie would have approved. It was lovely to spend a bit of time with him and rediscover his music again. Happy Birthday Matthew. Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time... ;)
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Tropical Beach
This cake presented a few more firsts for me. I used edible pigment dusts to brush on the sunset, and then free hand painted the palm trees over the top with edible paint. I kind of made the sugarpaste palm tree up as I went along, but was pleased with the result to may pull a tutorial together if there's any demand. The palm tree and the sugarpaste model of Robin are standing on a 'beach' of finely grated rich tea biscuits! This was a triple layer 8" carrot cake with a 6" chocolate cake layered with salted chocolate buttercream.
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Alice In Wonderland
Grace's Mummy wanted a pretty Alice in Wonderland cake for her 1st birthday celebrations so I stuck to pastels with gold accents. The miniture roses were made following the wonderful tutorial from Little Apple Cakes, to which I added tiny wired tear-drop leaves to make them into trailing rose bushes. This was also the first time I had made a sugar cup and saucer. Alice was sculpted from modelling chocolate with sugarpaste clothing and the white rabbit was sugarpaste. Apart from the wired roses everything was edible.
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Cityscape Wedding Cake
This 4 tier wedding cake was designed and made for a jet-setting couple who wanted it to reflect the cities they have lived in (London, Hong Kong & New York) and include their love of skiing/boarding. The wedding celebration was also held at the very top of London’s iconinc Gherkin building, so the cake needed to reflect the splendour of its surroundings! The cakes were 12" chocolate, 10" red velvet, 8" vanilla and 6" battenberg (a first for me, and the groom’s favourite!). The iconic buildings were hand cut from pastillage with relief detailing added using an extruder gun. The generic skyscrapers didn’t need to be quite so structural, so they were cut from sugarpaste. I added little pops of colour with transport logos from the 3 cities, iconic vehicles and a UK telephone box. Finally, the bride and groom were sculpted in sugarpaste, wearing their wedding outfits, but with bobble hats and ski goggles and their snow board/skis. They were placed in front of a hand cut mountain range. In total there were 104 individual pieces on this cake and it took almost 70 hours to complete (with research time included). It was another step outside of my comfort zone, but I was delighted with the result. See if you can spot these iconic buildings: St. Paul’s Cathedral (London), The Statue of Liberty (NY), The Lippo Building (HK), St. Bride’s Church (London), St. Patrick’s Cathedral (NY), The Bank of China (HK), Tower Bridge (London), The Shard (London), The Chrysler Building (NY), The Big Buddha (HK), Nelson’s Column (London), Big Ben (London), a NY taxi, The London Eye, The Empire State Building (NY), The ICC (HK), The Gherkin (London), A London cab, and many more…
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Anemones
Jenny loves anemones, so her daughter commissioned me to make her a cake planter overflowing with their beautiful bright blooms. This was a complete first for me. I hadn't previously made any wired flowers so had to learn from scratch and it was quite a steep learning curve, but I was delighted with the result. 30 sugar anemones in purple, pink, red and white, each with 8 individually cut, wired, shaped, veined and dusted petals. It was quite a production line! The cake itself was a triple layer 9x13" vanilla sponge with vanilla buttercream, and it was decorated to look like a slate planter. The board was also time consuming (it's a bit of a shame that so little of it shows!) - marbled browns were hand scored to give a wood grain effect. I then used petals dusts to give a more realistic woody depth and finished with edible lacquer. I'm so pleased with how this cake turned out. Maybe flowers are my 'thing' after all...?