It was my good friend Jen's wedding yesterday. It was a lovely day and they both looked so happy. The wedding cake was very symbolic of their lives together. The bottom tier was the Cornwall beach where Kelvin grew up. The middle tier featured the rolling Buckinghamshire hills of Jen's childhood and the top tier was London themed symbolising their lives together now living in London. The topper on the cake was the two of them driving off from the church just as they had sone a few hours earlier. Jen's friend Sarah made the cake and i had a slice of the lemon tier and it tasted delicious. Congratulations Jen & Kelvin!
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I have started making handmade flowers and bows for 90 cupcakes for a friend's wedding in July. I am starting on the white flowers and so far have made some small 6 petal roses, some squiggly ribbon roses and some small filler flower shells. I have also made bulbs which will form the struture for some larger 10 petal statement roses.
The theme is vintage so we are going for pale pink and pale green colours to contast with the white. I have a month to make them all so i need to be very focused and fast to get them ready in time. The main wedding cake is very special and can only be made the night before the wedding at the very earliest - keep an eye out for the blog post reveal! Back from our second wedding of the year. This one was in Suffolk at a beautiful venue called Hengrave Hall. The wedding colours were yellow and white and the room was beautifully decorated with daisy and gerbera flowers inside bird cages. The cake was made by Aunt of the bride, Pauline (who also made my wedding cake) It was a white 2 tier cake with small daisies around the tier and a comical topper but what really caught my attention was these beautiful daisy cupcakes. The giant handmade daisy sugarpaste toppers looked stunning and i was so impressed with how bright and yellow the papercases stayed - no signs of oil seeping through or discolouration! The cakes were presented on a perspex stand on top of a white grand piano! In the beautifully decorated room they looked stunning. Eloise's nursery celebrated it's first birthday today and i was kindly asked to make a special cake for them for the party.
We went for a rectangular lemon sponge cake split twice and filled with lemon buttercream icing. It was covered in white fondant icing and decorated with the Shapes logo on top and colourful shapes around the base all in fondant. The logo was tricky as it involved so many different colours which all had to be very accurately cut to fit together. After several false starts it came together with only an 11pm finish! All the kids had a great time at the garden party. Eloise loved the clown but insisted on standing up whilst watching the performance! Hopefully she didn't block anyone's view!!!! *You will now find a picture of Laura in action at the end of this post*
It was my very special friend Laura's son Ben's first birthday this weekend and Laura wanted to create a very special cake for him. She camped at my house for the whole day and inbetween feeding toddlers and calming tears (Ben and Eloise's not our own...) we created this great cake. The cake was a traditional birthday cake - vanilla sponge with buttercream and jam filling. We then covered the cake in coloured fondant and added brightly coloured presents the whole way around the bottom tier and B E N nursery blocks and yellow stars on the top tier. On the very top we placed a '1' candle circled by more stars. An iced green board and red ribbon finished the look. That summary makes it sound easy but we estimate we spent 10 hours working on this cake! Laura was an excellent student and did most of the work herself. Her finest hour was hand carving the BEN letters freehand (and she didn't crack under the pressure despite my trash talk!) Ben liked it so much he didn't even bother using his fingers - he just stuck his whole face into his slice! Happy birthday Ben! Eloise's first birthday party was the perfect excuse to make a cake! I went for a two tiered pink theme with a striped bottom tier, sugarpaste flowers and a little sparkly fairy on top.
I added 2 dozen cupcakes to the display with co-ordinating decoration. I was dissapointed with the result of the gingham check cupcake cases as the mixture showed through a lot and obsured the pattern - i will not be using them again (They were from Hobbycraft) The cake took far longer than expected resulting in a 3am finish but it looked great on the day and tasted good too! I have been asked to make cupcakes for a friend's wedding in July. The theme is vintage chic and i thought i would look online to get some inspiration.
I came across a cupcake course at Cakeology in Raynes Park, Wimbledon and the brief couldn't have been more perfect. I knew of the shop as my Dad and Brother fitted the electrics when it opened this time last year. So i decided to book onto the course and here are the results. The bride is really pleased and wants exactly the same for her wedding. Plus it was my first go at royal icing!! Hence why the piped lines are a bit splodgy!!! You can book onto courses at www.cakeology.net My baby daughter Eloise was christened a couple of weeks ago and i had saved a fruit tier of our wedding cake to re-ice as her christening cake.
I re-iced the cake with 2 layers of marzipan and white icing. I then embossed a rocking horse around the base with a patchwork cutter and dusted with pink petal dust to highlight the design. I then added cut out icing flowers between the horses and topped the cake with 3 handmade building bricks decorated in icing designs such as flowers, bunny rabbits and butteflies. For a personal touch i included my daughters, husbands and my own initals (E C A) on the bricks. To finish the display i baked 100 vanilla sponge cupcakes in bright pink striped cases and topped with a rich vanilla buttercream icing. The decorations on the cupcakes were made from icing and refelcted the designs on the building bricks. A shimmer of edible glitter finished the look. It was a great day and all the cakes were gobbled up. Big thank you to my Uncle Stu who took some fab pictures of the cakes! Last week saw my husband's little sister turn 21. She asked for a fantasy cake and after looking at loads of designs we decided to go for our own star burst theme in red, white and black. Because we didn't need a huge amount of cake, i used a dummy for the bottom tier which meant i could decorate well in advance. I created a raised tiered base by layering different coloured iced square boards at different angles. Each board had stars embossed into the icing. The tiers was then decorated with red, white and black fondant icing (Thanks Chris for mixing all the red for me!) in a variety of different patterned designs. The top 2 edible tiers were lemon flavoured sponge with buttercream filling. A stylised icing 21 was added to the middle tier and icing stars cascaded from the wired topper and tumbled down the cake to the base. Black ribbon edging to the boards and a fair amount of edible holographic glitter finished the look. Sharing Victoria's bash was Aussie relative Lea who turned 50 the same week. As a surprise for the birthday girl i created a single tier vanilla sponge cake with jam and buttercream filling. The decoration was themed around black and white flowers with purple glitter detail. The base and sides featured embossed flowers and layered cut outs created using daisy and petal cutters. Some flowers were given contrasting centres using daisy centre molds. To finish the design a '50' was created out of cut out flowers and applied to the top of the cake. Black ribbon edging created a slick contrasting edge to the board. The party went off without a hitch and despite the cakes not actually being cut on the night, they were a big hit. |
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