Christening Cake

This is the Christening cake made for a friend's son. It is a rich chocolate cake covered with baby blue sugar paste. This has then been decorated with white polka dots and a teddy made using a silicon mould.

New Year's Eve Wedding

Here are the cakes I made for a wedding on New Year’s Eve. I made 144 cupcakes in vanilla, chocolate and lemon and piped vanilla butter cream with a 1M tube. The cakes were then decorated with cream roses and handmade gold stars and navy blue bows. The top cake was a traditional fruit cake covered with marzipan and ivory sugar paste.

Birthday Cakes

A friend asked me to make cakes for her daughter's 18th and her mum's birthday. Both are 9'' cakes covered with sugar paste. The blue and white cake has polka dots and a bow made of modelling paste and the pink has flowers made from flower paste.

Vegetable Patch

Here is a cake made for a keen gardener. The board was covered in brown sugar paste and then sugartex applied to give the appearance of soil. The vegetables and model were made with modelling paste. The cake was covered with brown sugar paste and then planks of wood - these were made by rolling modelling paste which was cut in to strips and then made to look like wood by adding a grain with a cocktail stick.

Baby Boy

Here is the cake I made for my friends after the birth of their baby boy – the same couple I made the wedding cake for last year!   It is a chocolate sponge covered in white sugar paste and baby themed decorations.  They were made by adding gum tragacanth to blue sugar paste, this was them pushed into mould which were dusted with corn flour.   At first the gum kept sticking to the mould but I soon realised the key is to use a paint brush and a lot of corn flour to make sure it gets in to all the nooks and crannies of the mould, once I realised that then they were easy to make. 
July 2011

  

Tortoise and Hare

As part of our final project at college we had to model 2 characters in marzipan.  I wanted to make 2 different figures that worked together so decided to make a tortoise and a hare.   The marzipan in coloured with paste colours and is supported with dried spaghetti and edible glue, the tortoise shell is painted with liquid colours.  I thought this may be something I struggled with as I am not the artiest person around but I am pleased with them.  I am really sad that my course has come to an end as I have really enjoyed it and met some lovely people, fingers crossed for August when we get our results!
June 2011

Project Number 3

Here is my third and final cake for my course.  This time it was covered with sugar paste and we made flowers using flower paste and cutters, we also had to include embossing, crimping, cut out letter and a sugar paste border ... phew!  Quite a lot of techniques on one cake but it was good to learn all of them.  I am on the lookout for another class I can take on making the flowers as this is something Ii have really enjoyed.
June 2011