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Hi,

My name is Jane and I am using this blog as a way of keeping a record of my cake decorating projects.


I have always enjoyed cooking, particularly baking and have started to take cake decorating more seriously over the last few years. It all started when a friend asked me to make the cake for her wedding in May 2010. In the 9 months or so leading up to the wedding I started buying cake decorating books and
looking online, practicing my piping and sugar paste skills and soon I was hooked, taking any opportunity to try out a new technique or recipe.


From September 2010 to June 2011 I completed a cake decorating course at Thames Valley University and make cakes for friends and family at any given opportunity.


Thanks and I hope you enjoy the blog.


Jane


Sunday 19 February 2012

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.