Apr
30
I was asked to bake a cake for an 80th birthday party. Gordon, the birthday boy, is a very keen gardener and sows and pots up so many plants each year that his garden alone can’t take them – the little plants get handed out to all the family! I thought, therefore, that it was …
Apr
15
Just a quick post with a couple of photos of a cake I made last week for a first birthday! Ella’s mum asked for a chocolate cake (I made chocolate fudge filling to make it extra chocolatey) with Ella’s name and a fairy to decorate the cake. I went with classic little-girl-pink and a cute …
Apr
13
It was my lovely mum’s birthday last month and, to celebrate the unseasonally warm weather that came along with her birthday, I made a sunny yellow cake. Inside it was a luscious lemon drizzle cake with vanilla and lemon curd buttercream. On the outside I had experimented with a ruffle cake, inspired by Marth Stewart! …
Mar
06
My lovely mum e-mailed over a link to a magazine article asking people to come up with cakes and sweet things that are inspired by York’s sweet history. York’s chocolates are close to my heart with many fond memories of childhood – driving past the Rowntree’s factory trying to guess what they were making that …
Jan
25
Here is a ‘last day of work before going on maternity leave’ cake. It’s a chocolate truffle torte cake with buttercream icing and then fondant to cover it. I made the little flowers and the teddy bear with sugar florist paste. I took a lot of inspiration from a Mich Turner book I have but …
Jan
25
My sister and I recently made a very special cake in memory of our Grampy. Her words about him and the cake are just lovely so, instead of parroting them, here is a link to her blog, Libertean, and a few pictures of the cake:
Jan
18
I recently had a request for a birthday cake from a lady who loves gerberas and shopping! She wanted to encorporate both these things on her cake and so I got to seeing how it could be done. Here is the cake I came up with: It’s a two tier cake – Sarah asked for …
Jan
17
I work at the lovely Watershed Media Centre and, for this year’s Christmas party, was asked to help make some Christmassy deserts. I got to thinking about what I could make that would be fun to look at, fit in at a Christmas party and somehow reflect Watershed as a company. The artist Joe Magee …
Jan
17
Happy New Year! This is a very belated post with photos of some of my finished Christmas cakes. I was so busy making and decorating them I couldn’t find any time to update the blog. But here are the finished cakes: I used the designs I’d done for most of the cakes, although I did …
Nov
23
Well, maybe not quite yet! But December is just around the corner and I’m busy making and decorating cakes for this Christmas. I’ve had a few orders from friends and family so am getting on with the rich fruit cakes as they will taste better if they’re allowed to sit around and mature a bit. …
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