Engagement ring box Cake

Well I was set the challenge to make an Engagement Ring Box Cake for an Engagement party.  The cake was easy was enough using a hexagon cake tin, with the cushion effect just needed to taper the cake and round it off slightly. The bride to be decided on a simple vanilla sponge with buttercream and jam.
 The challenge for me was the lid for the box.... I decided this would be the only part that was not edible. Therefore the lid is made from cardboard base with icing laid on top. This still proved to be more challenging than I anticipated as the icing does not stick as well to the cardboard as it would cake, and working with it to do the rim etc proved to haves its own difficulties with potentially the icing cracking, lastly was the problem of holding it up against the cake and keeping it up during transportation to the venue, anyway manged to succeed against most of the dificulties, minor lid movements during transportation but was able to quickly fix again with some left over buttercream.
Hope you like. ..

Nursery Thank you Cake

Well this is a personal Thank you cake for my daughters Nursery. She is now ready for 'big school' and wanted to Thank the teachers for all their hard work. I have used the Nursery logo for the main part of the cake, then I wanted to add a few decorative items associated with 'nursery life' eg little paintings, teddy bear, ball, colouring pencils etc.
After the I took the photo's, I realised my mistake with the spelling 'Nursery' but I have corrected the final cake before giving to the teachers.
Hope you like!

 

Boat Cake

Well I was asked to do a boat cake for a colleague of my as she has a little cruiser along the Thames. This was probably my most challenging Cake to do and hadn't really worked too much before on carving and shaping cakes.
 I tackled it in a construction type manor, cutting the overall shape first, then carving into two, base of cake and top half. Next needed to shape the invidual halves by tapering in etc, sugarcrumb coat it and then cover in paste. Next stage was applying the filling for the cake before putting the two halves together, moulding and sealing the paste together, Then lastly addings the other structures to the cake.
Once this had all dried overnight all other decoartions could be added!

This one is a lemon based sponge with lemon buttercream filling with a little lemon curd.

 

Graduation Cake

Its Graduation Season, and my latest cake is a Graduation Hat! This time the cake is a lemon flavoured cake filling with bittercream and a little lemon curd. The cake is rounded slightly to make the hat shape.
The top of the cake has been added with the University of Bristol Logo, and the Graduate dressed in the University of Bristol robe, and hood colours.

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RUN DMC 30th Birthday Cake

This cake was requested as a RUN DMC cake- the American Hip Hop group from the lates 80's & 90's for a 30th Birthday.
Its a 2 tier cake with the top tier with a 'record' on it, and for those folks not aware of what a record is, it was before Downloads, CD's, and before Tapes!!
I have tried to make the Run DMC characters, although this has been my first attempt of figure modelling.
Hope you like!

 The RUN DMC firgure purposly have larger hands, feet and heard in proprtion to the rest of the body. Hands to extraggerate the rappers.

 

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Floral cake

So my latest cake is for my dear Aunt, I went for a floral theme to practice my skills in flower sugarcraft. I wanted to go for vibrant colours but still girly, so I went for pinks, hot pink, oranges and lime green ribbon to compliment.

Cake is a 4 layer vanilla sponge with buttercream and strawberry jam filling, then whole cake is covered in white chocolate ganache.

 

 

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Cricket Themed Fathers Day Cake

Well its Fathers Day tomorrow, and who doesn't like cake. This time went for a simple sponge cake with a generous layer of buttercream and raspberry jam, encased in icing and then set on a decorated board. The board is also layered with sugarpaste and then painted with shades of green for grassy effect.
This cake is intended for my husband, and Father to my beautiful girls and he is very much a cricket fan!

Vintage Style Wedding Cake

Vintage Style Wedding Cake

As summers starts to peep its head in, Wedding Season begins! This time I thought I would try a Vintage style Wedding Cake which would be appropriate with lacy bridal wear or those wanting a more Vintage look than your average plain white Wedding cakes.

 
Photo of top detail, technique is  brushed embroidery. Buttercream icing is piped on in flower shape, then use flat paintbrush is used to give a slight textured finish.

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A Little Bit of Luxury Boxed Up

Well my latest cake I have entitled 'A little Bit of Luxury Boxed up'.  I have tried out a red velvet recipe. With its lucious deep colour, I thought the whole cake should have a luxiourious feel, so opted for reds, ivory and golds.



Flower detail on top of the cake

The Cake is sliced into 4 layers with a cream cheese filling between each layer, then finished with an ivory royal icing. I have given the Icing a quilted lookwith gold sugar balls. The cake is then set on a red cake board with piped deatils.

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Potting about in the Garden - (mini cakes)

Just Potting about in the garden

Well the sun is out, what better weather for potting about in the garden and eating cake of course. This is my latest creation- Six Individual Mini cakes - perfect one portion sizes- set with a gardening theme.

Each pot is a chocolate cake with choclate buttercream and sprinkles on top, then dressed with either sugar 'carrots' 'cabbages' or little 'roses'. The towel is completly edible too, all set on a decorating cake board with daisys.


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Little Bunny Cake

This Little Bunny Cake was made for my daughters 1st Birthday, her most prized possession is her little brown bunny which goes to sleep with her every night. Her first cake could only be a little bunny cake. I have set the bunny on a hill with daisy's and carrots.

Little daffodills around edge of cake to fit in with spring bunny theme

The cake is a Madeira Cake, filled with butter cream and jam and shaped to a hill shape and then coated with sugarpaste icing. The cake board has also been decorated to continue with the hill. Cake is finished with little daisys and daffodills.

Creative cakes

I started baking after my first daughter was born, and soon got into Sugarcraft and cake decorating and found a flare for it. With each cake I have done, my skills have improved. I started experimenting with sugarcraft Flowers last year, and different fondants and continually striving to improve my skills.

 

First attempt of sugracraft flowers, chocolate cake with spray of red roses, lilles, and little yellow flowers

 

My first commission was a shoe cake, to try and replica a particular pair of Kurt Guiger shoes on top of a cake. Always up for a challenge, I took it on!

 

Finished with a few butterflies for a splash of colour and glittery back roses (all edible)

Close up of shoe made entirely from sugarpaste and black roses

 

 

 

 

 

Next on the agenda: Festive Christmas cake topper

 

 

 

 The pigs in Mud Cake was fun to do, admittadly its a copy, but it was perfect for its reciprients- Farm vets !

a Chocolate cake smuthered with chocolate sauce, chocolate fingers and sugarpaste pigs!