Apology

I'm really sorry but this is terrible i have'nt been on here since December last year!!!!! Again I'm really sorry. There has been so much going on that it has totally slipped my mind but that is no excuse for the lateness of this. I have made 2 cakes since I was last here my son got a skateboard for his birthday and you guessed it he wanted a skateboard cake for his party!!!It was very easy to do but very dull as it was a black cake with 4 wheels (that was the colourfull part to it) . My husband and I had a combined 30th (60th) as our birthdays are 5 months apart so I made a 60th birthday cake in our favourite colours!!! I had my first ever attempt with edible roses and they turned out ok Iwas very impressed with them iIread they can take up to 2 years to perfect (I'm not saying they were perfect) there is room for improvement!!! I have an up and coming cake to make and this one will be a challenge its Lightning McQueen WOW its going to be big!!! That's all for now and i will definitely be in touch and it won't be in another 5 months I promise!!!

Hey guys I am hoping to have a chirstmas house made out of gingerbread and decorated (by my son) before chirstmas hopefully I will be able to get time to put it on my blog i'm not sure if I will have it done in a week. And it is becoming a busy time of year to so fingers crossed I will get time to make it (it takes about a day with my son doing it) and ofcourse put it on here!!!

Hi guys i'm back again and have made what I think is the best one so far! This cake was made for a 1 year old and it awsome. I made a beautiful mermaid cake with corals, mermaids and sea creatures. This was very nerve racking for me as I had to assemble the cake at the parents house and I have never actually put a cake together infront of the people that its for!

I used another type of food colouring it was a gel based colour and it mixed really well and it was easy but I prefer to use the powder as the colour comes out a lot better and it can be more specific to my needs. The colour for the base of the cake is awsome its not a blue or a green its just perfect fot undersea living!

The corals were very simple to make all it is, is dry peanuts(not roasted ot salted) white chololate (melted) and food colouring. I melted the chocolate added the colour and mixed in the peanuts. I then put the mixture on baking paper (all different sizes) and put in the frezzer. Really simple and it looks really efective.

I used my famous butter icing for this cake and it was a little hard this time ans the day for this cake was saturday and it was mighty hot and the icing was on the verge of melting! It was fridge then cake fridge then cake etc it was not as easy cake to ice at all.

The tops of the cake were made with a sponge roll and ice cream cones which were stuck in with skewers (these are really easy to work with and they just make the tops of the castle) The purple bits were made out of soft white icing coloured pruple( this was fun using a liquid colour for it lets just say I was covered in purple fool colouring), the shpaes were cut out and placed on. Then all that was left was to decorate with the sea shells ( which were of course shaped chocolates) and the path guides were lollipops!

The mermaids were placed in behind the cake and the candle was placed in the middle. All in all it turned out to be fantastic and the birthday girl just loved it!!

Yes that is my boy there having a good look at the cake! His favorite part was eating the cake!! Typicall boy!!!

Army Tank

This cake I made for an 8 year old boy for his birthday on Saturday. this cake was a challange as I have never seen let alone been in or near an Army tank! Good news though my husband was in the Air-force for 6 years so he was huge help to me for this cake.

I normally use my famous butter icing for my cakes ( as you all know) but this time I decided to try soft white icing icing that you but at the supermarket ( not the almond icing yuck!) I also tried powdered food colouring and wow this colour was really vibriant and really easy to work with. The hard part is kneeding the colour into the soft white icing.

I covered the cake in butter icing first as this acts as a sealer on the cake and it also gives the soft white icing something to stick to. Once I kneeded the colour into the icing I rolled it out to the size and height of the cake. Be careful is you use this as it rips very easy so i found out!!!

Once the icing was placed on the cake (very carefully) i pressed it down and cut the excess edges off. With the excess edges I rolled them into a thin sausage shape and placed it around the edge of the cake this worked really well and finished the cake well.

Decorating this cake was very easy as it didn't need much I did put sand around it (its butter icing and brown sugar!). This cake went down really well with the kids and the adults. I also got the seal of approval from my husband so it must have been good.

This cake took me about 2 hours to make and decorate a lot of fun was had with this cake.

Castle Cake

Hey guys I'm back with a new cake! This cake I made last year for two birthdays and they were for two gorgeous boys who turned 7 and 6. The boys were right into castles last year and they wanted the cake this colour. The first one was a mission. I had no idea what I was doing all I had was a picture ( this is the way that I do make them) but this one was extra difficult.

I started with a square cake and iced it with my famous butter icing. I then added the corner bits and this was hard. I had three atempts at this part and gave up as it would not work and i got very grumpy!!! .The top of the cake was made with ice cream cones!! They were placed on the corners and then covered with butter icing. This was very messy but lots of fun!!

Then all that was needed was the decorations, the children wanted pebbles!!! The best part of both of these cakes was the exciment that the children shared and ofcourse eating the cake. I do get a bit sad when the cake is cut there is alot of hard work that has gone into it but it tastes Sooooo Goooood!!!!

These are my pictures of the castles they are both the same. I will crop the photos in my computer and they will be eaiser to see!!!

Fire Engine Cake

This is the first cake I made that I took a photo of!! This cake was interesting to make. The 5 year old boy that I made it for loved fire engines at the time. The cake is a light sponge and is covered in red icing . The best part about this cake is the flashing lights. The lights are made from 2 lollipop flashing sticks (my son and partner at the time had the job of eating the lollipops!) These lights just made this cake and the kids loved it, the only thing that was missing was the siren noises!!! I cover my cakes in a rich but delicant butter icing that is my own recipe and it is a hit with the adults as well as children. I make the cakes with two layers which are sandwich together with butter icing. I love making cakes the very first one I made was a logging truck! The only thing about my cakes is my imagination takes over and each cake shows my bubbly side and my creative side!