Little Bird Bakery

Mum’s birthday

Claire Gevaux — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:34:07 +0000

My mum hardly ever gets a cake from me as we’re not often in Northumberland around her birthday. However this year, with a free bank holiday we thought we’d got up to see the Elsdon folk and take her a little something to celebrate her turning 65+. She’s a gluten free so I made her a squishy carrot cake and topped it with a flower pot to celebrate her new summer house.

Wedding testers for Adi

Claire Gevaux — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:15:27 +0000

Here are some examples from a tester session I did for my friend Adi and her fiance Dave’s wedding. A mix of carrot cake and chocolate cakes.

Valentine’s Day fundraiser

Claire Gevaux — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:08:54 +0000

I helped out a colleague at work raising money for his London marathon run by making a box of cakes to raffle at work. Had I known that the appetite for raffles never mind cakes was so strong I would have done this months ago! The first prize was a box of chocolate cakes with a rose and three runners up went home with a lovely box of iced biscuits each. Terrible shame that I didn’t take any photos at the event as we drew quite a crowd!

Hettie School Musical

Claire Gevaux — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:02:20 +0000

Our not so little any more, little daughter had her 4th birthday in January and requested a

High School Musical cake. This was a chocolate/vanilla cake and featured my first attempts at

modelling characters. Troy Bolton wasn’t supposed to be leaning over her shoulder quite as much as

that but Hettie was overjoyed!

London 2012 cupcakes and biscuits

Claire Gevaux — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:50:48 +0000

Train Cake

Claire Gevaux — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 12:47:17 +0000

Chocolate cherry to make Tony merry

Claire Gevaux — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:12:17 +0000

My lovely friend Tony (who has had a few ‘commissioned’ cakes from me in the past) was remembered again on his birthday this year with a simple but hopefully tastey chocolate cherry mix.

I’ve bought a new nozzle – can you tell – it’s gorgeous and makes these big rose swirls which are so luxurious and don’t require any flooding first. Ha ha! I do like flooding but it does use up so much more buttercream.

Also I have a new worktop. At last.

Millie turns 5

Claire Gevaux — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:07:58 +0000

I can’t believe it’s such a long time since I did any posting! Millie’s birthday seems like such a long time ago. Millie decided she would have a Cowgirls and Cowboys theme this year (I can’t tell you what a mad dash it was to get straw bales in time!) which I thought was a great theme.

Of course it was all inspired by the latest Pixar animation, Toy Story 3 which we had already seen and Millie’s fondness for Jessie continues. So, a Jessie cake was made. Happy Birthday Millie.

Wedding tester Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Claire Gevaux — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 20:01:37 +0000

This is the lovely Sian and James who came to see us a couple of of months ago for lunch. Sian and I used to work together and she’s asked me to have a go at making her a wedding taster box. She’s having a wonderfully 50s inspired ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’ wedding which is so classic and stylish. I had a go at a few designs and she took the cakes away to think over what she preferred the best.

It was a lovely box to do and Sian gave me lots of inspiration to think about as well as doing some research myself. I think the simplest bows work best although I think they might have to be thinner and more delicate. The single black strap with a diamonte clasp was a favourite but of couse the diamonte isn’t edible! I did buy some edible diamonds and used them but I didn’t think they were very successful.

Hopefully I’ll find out in the next few weeks whether she’d like me to make her cakes and which designs she selects. Very exciting!

Henna Hen party

Claire Gevaux — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:30:01 +0000

My sister’s friend Jo is getting married and had her hen party the other weekend. Sarah asked me to come along to her picnic on the Sunday and bring some cakes of course!

I did some Henna ones for Jo before and she asked for them again.

Henna is proving popular I’ve got another Henna order for September…