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!

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.