Train Cake

The train cake was the first child's cake I've made and I really enjoyed making it. The train was created using a patchwork cutter and with it being for a little one I thought primary colours were the best colours to use.
The background fondant colours were blue for the sky and green for the grass with little white flowers dotted around. And I thought to finish it off I added a track for the train to run on and clouds in the sky with the little boys name and age in.

Yellow Rose Cake

I had the chance to make some sugar paste flowers for this cake which I always enjoy making. When given the order I wasn't given any colours to pick from so my mum said most women in their 70s and up love yellow so I went with a yellow theme. Thankfully mum was right and the cake was a hit.
Had a few small changes I would have like to have made but I only noticed them half hour before it was picked up so to late to changes anything. My main bug bear was the cake had a slight incline which meant the piping around the edge of the cake was off and the other thing was the number 88, I'm wishing I'd used an italic style of numbering.

Happy Halloween

I've never been one for celebrating Halloween not that I'm against it as I'm not just that we never really did the whole trick or treat thing when I was a kid so dressing up and staying in never really appealed. However this year I've been wanting to make some cake pops as I had left over cake sponge so I decided to do a Halloween theme.
The shapes are free style molding as it was kind of last minute thing so they are a little different in size but I think it adds to the homemade character.
These cake pops are chocolate sponge with vanilla cream icing and coated in white chocolate for the ghosts and orange chocolate for the pumpkins with a tiny bit of green fondant on top.
The only thing I would do differently is pipe the eyes and mouth on instead of paint as the food colouring never dried.

Chintzy Cakes Star Rating

The other day I finally received the letter I have been waiting for, confirmation on the kitchen hygiene standards and I couldn't believe it when I got 5 stars. I had been told that its rare for anyone to get 5 stars on there first inspection so I should be happy to get 3-4 stars. So you can imagine my surprise when I found out it was 5.
Now all I need is to start getting the orders in.

Chintzy Cake Business

Yesterday I had a visit from the local environmental health to check that the kitchen was up to scratch for selling homemade cakes, brownies, cupcakes, Christmas cakes and cake pops from home. Thankfully the lady that visited said the kitchen was very clean and my knowledge on food hygiene was up to date so I think that means I have the green light. She said the letter from the Stockton Council to confirm her visit was on its way along with my star rating, sadly she never said how many stars I've got so I will have to wait for that. The suspense is killing me. I will post it on the blog once I know.