Baby Shower

A good friend of mine is having a baby and so I decided to organise a baby shower for her. I also took it upon myself to make the cake....she would have expected nothing less. (Well that's what I tell myself!)

I had been fortunate enough to see my friends nursery beforehand and so used her colour scheme and design to create the cake. The wallpaper for the top part of the walls is grey with little silver stars and white clouds. I used this design for the top tier. The stars and clouds on the cake were created using cutters.

 The bottom part of the wall in the nursery is yellow - hence the iced yellow bottom tier. My friend is from an equestrian family and so I wanted to get a rocking horse on the cake.

I used a Sugar Buttons rocking horse silicone mould from Katy Sue designs. I have to confess that I have had little experience with silicone moulds and as a result it took a few attempts to get this result. I dusted the mould with corn flour and used flower/modelling paste of varying colours to create the definition of the hair, saddle etc. It was then applied to the side of the cake with royal icing.

Elsie's Christening Cake

I had a break with my cake making at the end of the year as I had my hands full with my little girl Elsie, who arrived safely in October. I finally got to make a cake when we had her christened this January.

I decided to revisit a cake topper that I had made for my first ever christening cake - the rocking horse. I loved this horse the first time I made it, so I chose to use it as a feature on Elsie's cake. 

I really like the pastel colours that are in at the moment as well as the bunting. It's such a lovely theme that  I couldn't help but add it to my daughter's cake.

The bottom tier had vertical stripes made from the same pastel purple that was used on the top tier. I used a lovely plaque cutter (Orchard P2) for her name to go on.

A rarity for my cakes - a picture of me (and Steve) cutting it!