Seaside Birthday Cake

 I made the seaside cake for a lovely lady who wasn't going to have a cake for her birthday but her family and friends said she couldn't have a party with out a cake and I second that :-)
After talking with her for a while I realised that she may not have any hobbies like gardening or knitting but she loves the seaside and goes regularly which is what inspired this cake. We starting talking about the seaside and I thought whenever you go to the seaside it is traditional even for us big kids to make a sandcastle and it would look cool on top of the square Victoria sponge plus little Georgie (I think that's her niece) prefers chocolate cake over vanilla so the sandcastle was for her mainly.
I started of by making a 10" Victoria sponge and a chocolate tray bake for the sandcastle. The main cake is covered in light yellow and baby blue fondant, I would normally take the top of the cake for a smooth finish but the delve that happened during baking because the parchment paper stuck to the cake and not the tin looked like a sand dune so it was a happy accident, I like them. To join the 2 colours I used the vanilla butter cream to create waves and sea foam and then decorated the sea floor with shells.
For the sandcastle I had the chocolate tray bake that I cut 2 rounds out one larger than the other and sat them on top of each other. After eventually dirty icing the sandcastle and 5 small marshmallow I covered it in a mixture of ginger nut and rich tea biscuits that I blended to create a sand texture, this also went over part of the main cake.
To finish the cake I made a little seagull and a bucket and spade out of fondant.

Designer Handbag Cupcakes

I was asked to make some cupcakes for a friend who wanted tiny Chanel and Louis Vuitton handbags and logos on a dozen cupcakes. I started of by finding pictures of three handbags from each designer and made them ahead of schedule so they had time to harden and keep their shape making sure the handles would stand up when placed on top. The cupcakes are chocolate with a purple vanilla butter cream and lots of glitter and the logos.

Garden Plant Pot Birthday Cake

This cake was originally set to be like another cake I had done previously with 4 garden scenes around the cake and a flower spray on top but I'm not a huge fan of doing the same cake twice and a couple of days before the cake was due to be finished I had this idea of a white picket fence covered in flowers (which I know I've done before) but the top would have 2 plant pots filled with flowers. Thankfully the lady organising the cake knows I wont let a cake go out the house unless I was happy with it so she said to go with it as long as its garden themed she trusted me :-)
The main cake is a Victoria sponge with raspberry jam and vanilla butter cream and covered in my favourite Lincoln green fondant. The plant pots are 2 chocolate cakes that I made in mini pudding tins, I made a couple spare in case they didn't come out of the tins whole which 2 of them didn't grr. After cutting the tops of I dirty iced the cakes and covered them in teddy brown fondant with a second strip around the top edge, the tops I iced with chocolate butter cream and decorated with purple and blue flowers.
The fence was cut free hand so none of the lengths were exact and the points differed slightly. For the flowers I did a variety to make it look more like a garden.   

Pink and White Wedding Cake and Cupcakes

This wedding cake order was for a lovely couple who had very different ideas on what they wanted, by the end of the first consultation I had 4 different ideas to price up with other ideas that had been dismissed. After working out prices and how many guest were going the order was narrowed down to 36 cupcakes and a 10" fruit cake.
The fruit cake I made at the end of last year soaking it every so often then in February I covered it in marzipan and then a month before the wedding I covered it in white fondant and quilted the edge with sugar pearls placed in a criss-cross pattern.
The cupcakes I had to make 2 days before the wedding and finished decorating them at quarter to midnight the night before (it was a bit touch and go at one point). For the cupcakes I had 3 designs- the large pearls and rose, quilted with pearls, and blossom flowers with 12 for each design interchanging the colours so 6 with pink and 6 with white. My amazing sister came over to help deliver the cakes to the event but also got roped in with making the large fondant pearls while I made the roses and decorated the tops. (Thanks B)

Heart Anniversary Cake

 This was a last minute cake order from my lovely next door neighbour who sent me a text at midnight enquiring about a cake for the weekend for her in-laws 40th wedding anniversary.
The cake is chocolate with chocolate butter cream and covered in white fondant and decorated with pink hearts that have a slight shimmer to them.

Humpty Dumpty Birthday Cake

 Sorry it's been awhile I'm currently in the middle of moving and lots of markets so its been a bit difficult keeping up to date with the old blog so I'll try and get as many of the cakes on today.

For this cake I was asked to create a cake around an heirloom candle of Humpty Dumpty, the candle has been passed down from generation to generation and now its little Josephine turn who was 1 awhile ago now (whoops). The other requirement was fairy princess as that's her nickname, I thought the best way to incorporate Humpty Dumpty and a fairy princess was with the yellow brick road... it made sense in my head.
The cake was an 8" Victoria sponge with vanilla butter cream covered in Lincoln green fondant and decorated with a variety of flowers. I made a Humpty Dumpty with a polystyrene egg and covered it in white chocolate and blue fondants putting a lot of detail on the face. This was purely for the photos as I only saw a photo of the candle and measurements. The fairy was based on Josephine with the brown/blonde hair and blue eyes. The brick wall I made with cake, I usually use rice crispies and chocolate but with the candle being so old I didn't want it to break.