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Friday 17 February 2012

Spitfire Cake

I wanted to post this on here as it is one of my proudest achievements.  It was a Spitfire cake, made to scale (well almost to scale), completely out of cake. 


It was for my hubby's 30th birthday and he is a crazy plane enthusiast - needless to say he was interfering all the time ensuring the details were correct (which was secretly a help, but don't tell him that).  At the time I was 6 months pregnant, so I was knackered all the time anyway and this cake took me a good few (and sometimes very emotional) hours to make.

I was dead chuffed with how it turned out and everyone said how good it looked - hubby even posted it on his Air Fix modelling forum for feed back and it was a hit.  Shame all that was left  at the end of the party was a few measly crumbs.

Fifi Flowertot....

It is my little girl's 2nd birthday in a few weeks and I have been thinking about what cake to make her.  She is really into Fifi and the Flowertots at the moment (possibly because we call her Fifi for short), so I was browsing around for some inspiration and came across this tutorial:

http://www.cakesbylynz.co.uk/index.php/tutorials/how-to-make-the-fifi-and-the-flowertots-cake/

The cake looks amazing and the details are great, so I am going to give it a try.  I have already bought the bits and pieces needed and I am quite looking forward to the challenge.  I am sure it will take me a good few days, but I'll put some finished images on here after the 16th March...wish me luck!

Wednesday 15 February 2012

It was Valentines day yesterday and these cupcakes went down a treat!

Baby Cakes

A friend at work is off on maternity leave and I wanted to make a special cake for her before she went.  I had some ideas in my head so drew a sketch and tried to think of all things baby related and this is what I finally came up with...


It took me hours to make, but I am pretty chuffed with the results.  The whole thing is edible as I made all of the little figures out of fondant.

I also made these cute little baby and teddy cakes that I had seen someone make before and wanted to have a go at - they came out pretty cute too.