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

May your christmas be full of cake....

So I had a number of xmas cakes requested for xmas...and a number for presents ( you will have to wait and see if it is you!!)

So I attended Heather's Mini Xmas Gift Cake Class...The results are below...and have inspired much debate for all the other I need to finish!

Here Kitty Kitty...

As a last minute and request i was asked to do an eggless Birthday Cake for a friend at work. I did this....Iit looked like a loaf of bread when it came out of the oven!!

I did find this more difficult than I had expected!!, Hello Kitty is not as simple as it looks....I also think my piping skills may need a bit of work!

Old Macdonald had a farm.....on a cake :-)

I got asked to do a farm cake for my bosses son's birthday. This was the most fun I've had....I got to practice all the animals I'd made at my classes, and a few more besides.

It was a vanilla sponge and decorated in fondant icing...all completely edible. The tractor was made of ceral treats and iced....I even made a vegetable patch with sugar & buttercream!

 

These little piggies went to market :-)

At my last class we have moved from wedding mice to wedding pigs...I haven't finished the plaque to sit them on yet, but they do look delightfully cute! I the groom a funky Willy Wonka style hat for a bit of colour!