A Birthday Walk in Paris

So to be sneaky....although she shouldn't have be suprised!!! I teamed up with my best friends husband ( he was the ideas man)...to create a suprise birthday cake for my best mate Emma...

He came up with a theme of paris..( where they got engaged ah)

I was feeling a little brave...so painted a romantic pattern on the side... added some photo printed postcards...a parisian yellow rose....couture bracelet....a can can dancer and an eiffel tower!

It all went swimmingly apart from the eiffel tower....that stayed on the acetate...rather then being skeletal ( maybe royal icing is never going to be my strong point!)

But either way I was really pleased with it ;-)

Baby shower!!!

So I came back after christmas promising myself I wouldn't do too much....a lie.

In the first week I had a baby shower cake to do for a friend of a friend...and my best mates birthday cake.

The baby shower cake...was my second shaped cake...and my first attempt and any proper piping.

It was 3 blocks, with pearlised lustre, images on the face- which I stencilled in chocolate and piped detail around the side...which I pearlised ...with a teddy on top!

It took a long time....but I was quite pleased with it- was a standard vanilla sponge- with jam and vanilla buttercream.

The Stuff Xmas Gifts are made of!!!

So as most of you already know...as you have hopefully already eaten them- I made xmas gift cakes for quite a few people this year. I decided it was  much more personal and gave me some much needed practice!

I made skiing and sledging penguins, mice decorating trees and happy snowmen!! I really enjoyed it- perhaps a little too much!

Photo's below