So although I am rather late posting this blog, I would like to show you what I do to celebrate Christmas in a cake fashion when I’m not over-run with other orders! As I don’t personally like fruit cake, and had an abundance of ideas kicking around in my head for Christmas cake designs, I 

A popular theme for younger children, dinosaur cakes are a bit of a repeat thing for me so I’ve grouped several cakes together in one post to save repeats! The first one was a two tier cake, with a bas relief effect for the dinosaur and boy.  The airbrush was well employed to create the 

I’ve made pirate cakes before, and pirate cupcakes too, but this order for a little boy’s birthday party gave me an excuse to do a variation on theme which has proven popular for baby shows, being  “face” cupcakes.  Instead of a baby face this time though, it was a pirate face, complete with bandana. The 

A cake to take “pride” in! The customer’s request was for a cake featuring an African sunset with plenty of animals all the way around, and the essential feature were the lions.   The customer supplied examples of cakes she had seen and liked, and the tree featured heavily in these, and so we decided that 

Chocolate drip cakes – a new fashion in chocolate cake, and certainly one I’d like to do more of – extra tall sponge cake, usually 6″ round,  covered in rich chocolate ganache (no sugarpaste), piled as high as you like with your favourite chocolate treats and an over-spill of chocolate dripping down the sides – 

The thing I love about this job at times is the unimaginable variety of requests I receive for cakes.  A lot of the cakes I make are “firsts” for me, and I am frequently surprised by the themes that people choose.  A chicken cake was definitely a new one on me, and with an egg 

A tale of four tiers, and three flavours!  Chocolate, vanilla and lemon sponge tiers for the main cake, plus chocolate and vanilla cupcakes and also more chocolate cake in the form of a separate cutting cake to cater for all the guests.  A lovely couple, who had a fantastic venue dressed up beautifully complete with 

A wedding cake with a definite sense of humour!  The slightly “worse for wear” bride and groom toppers were supplied by the customer, but had to be kept secret until the day.  They were made to order with accurate dress details and as per tradition the groom, who came to collect the cake, hadn’t seen