Roxanne and Rolands Wedding Cake.

A wedding cake for a cousin of a friend this time, Roxanne wanted three tiers and for it to go with her colour scheme of ivory, green and blue. I suggested blue roses with green leaves on an ivory cake and thats what I went for. However when it came to the roses the colour seemed pretty lost on the back drop of green leaves, so instead I opted for ivory roses on beds of green leaves. And I think the end result turned out pretty well. (Although I never want to see another green fondant leaf in my life.)








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Mark and Kates Wedding Cake.

My cousin Mark and his partner Kate asked me to do their wedding cake, they wanted a really beautifil and simple cake, one fruit tier and one chocolate with swirled and stippled icing. I got to use my shiny new cake stands and Kate put some beautiful flowers on to decorate it.

I was so pleased to be able to do this for them, and they really loved it, which is what counts the most. I also provided a box of cupcakes for the reception. The wedding was an absolutely beautiful day, a fun ceremony, a sunny champagne reception with a brass band playing jazz in the background, and most importantly an amazing gathering of family and friends.



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Fiona's 21st Cake

Ok, I'm going to preface this by saying the only clay model's that I've made in the past have been a) of teddy bears, where realness isn't all that needed and b) done with slightly more time to finish them.

This however was a last min cake for my best friend Emma's sister, they were having a toga themed party and wanted a Greek/ancient Romanesq cake, and I attempted two things that were new to me. Firstly making something look like a person and secondly making pletes up the sides of the cake. (sidenote: Holy crap it is hard work to make pletes)

I was fairly pleased with how it turned out (apart from the less that great pletes), since it was done in such little time and from all acounts Fi was happy with it.





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Janice's 80th Birthday Cake

This cake was for the 80th birthday of a friend's mum, she wanted a victoria sponge. It's decorated with white sugarpaste, cut out pink sugarpaste letters and piped sugarpaste detail. With a few pink balls for prettiness.

The cake was the lady's first ever birthday cake and she was really overjoyed with it.


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Evalyne's First Birthday Cake - Teddy Bears Picnic

For my beautiful baby god-daughters first birthday I made a teddy bears picnic cake.

Chocolate cake, iced with buttercream and decorated with fondant.






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Whole Orange Cake

I had an over abundance of oranges this week, so went hunting for a recipe to use them up. This is what the wonderful google machine found for me:

2 Large Oranges
250g (9oz) Ground Almonds
25g (9oz) Caster Sugar
6 Large Eggs
1tsp Baking Powder

Pre-heat over to Gas Mark 5, and grease a 20cm cake tin.

Cover the oranges with water and bring to the boil, then simmer for 1 hour. Then remove and leave to cool.

Chop into piece, removing all of the pips and puree in a food processor. Blend in the eggs and then add the dry ingredients, transfer into the tin and cook for 45mins-1 hour. Until golden on top.

I found that the inside of the cake was very moist, but very delicious. I topped the cake with a chocolate gnash, and everyone seemed to enjoy it a great deal.





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Bob's 50th Birthday Cake

50th Birthday cake for Bob, made with plain sponge, jam and buttercream. Decorated with hand coloured fondant, and piped royal icing letters. I had a few issues with the royal icing, but I think I am finally getting the hang of it, I definitely need to start trusting my instincts on when its at the right consistency. All in all it turned out alright though.

Over view of cake.

Close up on edge detailing.

Close up of 'H' and edge decoration.

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Sarah's 18th Birthday Cake

Sarah asked me to make her an 18th cake in the shape on the numbers 1 and 8, decorated with pink hearts and blue stars.

Had a few problems with this one, as the cake tins I hired didn't really match up, so they look a little odd on the cake board, and the fondant did not want to be nice and plyable, no matter how long I spent kneeding it, and on top of that my buttercream frosting went so hard that it would hardly stick the fondant to the cake. It ended up looking alright, but my lord are those numbers difficult to ice.




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Spring Cake

I made this cake recently by request of some friends, and it was quickly demolished by a houseful of ravenous students.

This spring cake features ducks, flowers and carrots all made from fondant. The cake was a ginger cake with strawberry frosting, and turned out very tasty.


Some side decoration.


A squadron of ducks.

Overview image.


Close up of duck pond.


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Lewis' 3rd Birthday Cake - Lightning McQueen

For my cousin Lewis' 3rd birthday I wanted to go all out (despite the fact that I'd made 4 cakes in 3 days) and try some cake sculpture.


As he had demanded a racing car, I went for a Lightning McQueen design - to match the ace motorised Lightning car he got for his birthday.

Made from chocolate cake and chocolate butter cream, decorated with red ready coloured fondant.



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Leanne's 21st Birthday Cakes

For my sisters 21st birthday, I made her two cakes that I knew she would really love, a me2you bear and a VW Campervan. Both made out of chocolate sponge with chocolate butter cream and then decorated with fondant and food colouring.

The me2you bear took roughly forever to texture, but came out really well and a few people said they thought it was an actually me2you bear stuck on top (flattery is always pleasant to hear).

Lea and her friends were incredibly impressed with the camper van cake and bemoaned having to cut it up. Towards the end of the night the teddy did end up being transformed into a T-Rex by an unnamed drunken party goer, but by that time we were all a little to tipsy to care.




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Alex's Chelsea FC Cake

Football cake number 3. This was done for my cousin Alex, chocolate sponge with chocolate frosting, covered with white fondant.

This time I made the logo out of royal icing, for my first attempt with royal icing it went quite well, unfortunately the logo cracked a little while being transferred (as you can see in picture 2) but still looked good, Alex was impressed with it anyway.




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Picnic Cupcakes

Here are some cupcakes that I made with my new pretty silicone cupcake cases (thank you Kam and Jo) for a picnic with my cousins and a friend.

Made with a normal sponge recipe, and using the leftover pink fondant from Chelsea's cake.



The kids were really impressed with them, and had a great time scoffing the icing.

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Chelsea's 16th Birthday Cake

This cake was my first large scale order, its a three tier pink and black birthday cake for a 16th birthday party, hand made from top to bottom with hand coloured (and kneeded, boy did my arms ache) fondant.






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