Buttons

I bought a new button mould from Squires Kitchen and have been desperate to use it! Fortunately I didn't have to wait long as it was someone at works birthday (not that she wanted to admit it). I liked the colours that much on the hen-do cake I made (Cath Kidston style) that I decided to use them again. The buttons are made using petal paste and dusted with edible lustre. The 'threads' were piped with royal icing.

This was a simple cake to make and I really love the buttons. I have seen some designs on the internet where ivory buttons have decorated a wedding cake iced in ivory. It is a really nice design with a vintage feel to it.

Here is the cake I made for the yellow ribbon day at our local hospice. I donated it for their raffle. It is exactly the same as the last cake I made - with the exception of it being yellow!

Cath Kidston inspired Cake

This cake was made for the weekend of my friends hen-do. It is inspired by Cath Kidston and the colours match her theme for the wedding. I enjoyed making this cake as it took a lot of effort and different skills to make. The roses were created from royal icing and were piped onto a cocktail stick. I found this difficult to do but think I got the hang of it in the end! The white 'ribbons' on the top of the cake and on the bottom were made from flower paste and were decorated with edible pearl white lustre. I was really happy with the outcome of this cake - so much so that I am going to create a white and yellow version for the local hospice 'yellow ribbon day'.....so watch this space!

Christmas Cake

This is the Christmas cake I made for myself (but it was very quickly devoured at work!) It is (was) a traditional fruit cake covered in marzipan and regal icing. I then made the lady and snowman out of more regal icing. The design was a download tutorial from Lorraine McKay (here is the link to the tutorial page http://www.extraicing.co.uk/#/sugarcraft-tutorials/4542219227 ). I enjoyed making these characters and loved having the practice/experience of making models.

Individual Christmas cakes

These are the ten individual Christmas Cakes that I have made this year for presents. They are all fruit cake, covered in marzipan and regal icing. I had fun decorating them and thinking of different ideas. Each one has been individually wrapped using cellophane and a sparkly white ribbon. My favourite was the one with white sparkly icing and black sparkly snowflakes.

I have close up pictures of each individual cake, so if you would like a closer look just drop me an e-mail and I can send you the picture.

Foo Fighters

I was asked to make a cake for a work colleagues brother. It was his birthday and he is a Foo Fighters fan. She wanted me to put the logo on the cake. I like the fact that there are only three colours in the logo - everything stands out. I then used the same three colours for the balls round the base of the cake. I was hoping it was more manly than ribbon! Having iced the cake board in black and used white as my base colour for the cake it only made sense to put the text on the cake in red. This was a good cake to make as I feel it actually looks like the logo.

Christening Cake

I made my first tiered cake for a christening. The design was created using a couple of sources, including cake decorating magazines and also the clients preference for a square cake, shades of pink and stars/hearts. The majority of the time was spent making the rocking horse. I enjoyed tiering the cake, which was all sponge, and found using the dowels and the thin cake boards easier than I was expecting! I also really liked icing the cake board and sticking the ribbon around the edge - I'm very easily pleased!! I'm now desperate to make another tiered cake :-)