Eva’s London cake

Our lovely neighbour and friend Eva left to go back to Malaysia the other weekend so Amy threw her a big party. I made her a cake with London landmarks on it to remind her of her time here.  I was going to make her a big cat cake but thought that was too mean. [...]

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Beach Party

A friend’s son was having his 5th Birthday party wth a beach party theme so I made a sandcastle cake and some beach inspired cupcakes. Really loved doing this one as the beach theme was especially easy to get into!

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90th birthday cake – gardening theme

Phil’s grandad turned 90 in January but he wasn’t well enough to celebrate his birthday so it was postponed until April.  So we all went over to a pub in Essex to celebrate.  Irene made a fruit cake for me to decorate and we agreed on his love of gardening and growing vegetables.  He’s also [...]

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Baby cupcakes

A friend at work asked me to make these cakes for her friend’s baby shower. I had fun with these! Orange sponge with orange buttercream and lots of hand made decorations. One of the teddy bears was knicknamed Beary Manilow because of his large nose. And yes, they are teddy bears!

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5th birthday – horses

Fleur was 5 this week and had a birthday party on Saturday with a horse theme.  My good friend and neighbour Wendy (who has been a bit of a regular addition to sugar paste evenings) once again came to my rescue with her insider knowlege of horses and ponies.   I thought these were really lovely [...]

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Halloween

We had our first house party on Saturday night as Phil wanted to do a ‘Chilli Con Carnival’ which was also Halloween.  45 of our friends and neighbours joined us to eat lots chilli, cakes and puddings and go on what must be one of the biggest trick or treat groups our street has ever [...]

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The story so far

Phil very kindly made me this montage of most of my cakes so far! A really nice collection and I’m hoping that they are starting to look like my own style. Hopefully there will be many more to come.

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Mehndi Party

My sister’s friend Jo asked me to make her some cakes to take to a hen night with her for an Indian bride.  She didn’t give me too many restrictions on what I could do so I decided to use the mehndi patterns found in henna designs as my inspiration. I do love a paisley [...]

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National Cupcake Week 14 – 18 September

Despite the odd start to cupcake week with the Sunday Express article (!) I still had a few friends to make cakes for and of course to help celebrate National Cupcake Week. Firstly a friend in the office asked me to make a few cakes to help a celebration of a member of the public [...]

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The Olympic Park in cake

Last week I was asked to make some Olympic inspired cakes for a friend at work’s birthday. I decided, after discussing with Phil, that one venue didn’t pose enough of a challenge and went for the entire Olympic Park in cupcakes. I was asked to write a blog about this for the London2012 website which [...]

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