To infinity and beyond!
Just a quick post to share with you a birthday cake I recently made for a friend’s son’s 2nd birthday. A prize goes to the person who can guess the theme… Continue reading “To infinity and beyond!”
Category: Cakes
A Wedding
Some exciting news! I spent 2 days baking, decorating and creating 250 cupcakes and a 4 tier topsy turvy cake for my very first wedding order. I can’t say I did it all myself as luckily, I had some little helpers to speed up the process and save me from fondant overload! Continue reading “A Wedding”
Carrot Cake – 60th Birthday
The orders are slowly starting to come in! I had an order for another carrot cake – this time it was for a 60th birthday. The order was for a 10 inch, 2 layer carrot cake, covered with cream cheese frosting and decorated with orange roses. Continue reading “Carrot Cake – 60th Birthday”
Lemon Meringue Birthday Cake
This is a bigger, cake version of the lemon meringue cupcakes I made a few weeks ago – a 3 layer, lemon sponge sandwiched together with lemon curd and covered with meringue.
I doubled my cupcake recipe for the sponge, which was more than enough for 3 layers. I cut down some of the sponge to make it more even, which meant I had to be extra careful to not get crumbs in the meringue covering. Continue reading “Lemon Meringue Birthday Cake”
Carrot Cake
Another order complete! 8 inch, 2 layer carrot cake, with cream cheese frosting. Originally it was to be a 3 layer cake but the layers turned out much thicker than expected, so only 2 layers were used. Continue reading “Carrot Cake”
Doctor, Doctor..
My sister celebrated her first day of no longer being a teenager on Thursday – Happy Birthday Steph – best way to celebrate? With a cake of course! She had to carry this on a long car journey back to Uni, so I hope it made there it one piece and it tasted alright too. I’m hoping it’s quite obvious what the cake is representing.. doctor’s lab coat, stethoscope… you get the picture?! Continue reading “Doctor, Doctor..”
Chocoholic Heaven
Jak turned 22 yesterday, so we celebrated with presents, cake and cookies (more of which in another post). After eating most of the devil’s food cake I made at Christmas, he decided he wanted to same cake for his birthday. The whole cake is chocolate (bar the blue vanilla buttercream), so it was ideal for him! Continue reading “Chocoholic Heaven”