We were asked to make a Guinness cake, in the shape of a wooden keg, it sounded like fun and let us try out new recipes to get it right! In the end we settled on the Nigella Lawson Guinness and chocolate cake, it was rich and flavourful, a definite winner! With the cream cheese [...]

Our good friends at the Austin Astronomical Society once more got their holiday party cake from us. It’s such a pleasure to get repeat customers like this, although it does mean we have to constantly strive to top last year’s cake! As before, they had a butter cake with our English buttercream, a nice simple [...]

So, I know I’m about a week late in posting a Halloween cake, but lets just ignore that and carry on shall we? This cake was a personal one, I made it for our Halloween party which is always a good time to test out recipes on our guinea pigs *ahem* friends! I initially had [...]

Firefly has always been a favourite show of ours. Neither of us discovered it until it had sadly ended but it hooked us in and is a show we can happily re-watch (when we have that elusive thing known as free time). Apologies to anyone not familiar with the show Firefly, a lot of this [...]

We got a request for a peanut butter cup cake, it didn’t need to be huge, the shape and flavour were the important bits. We umm-ed and ahh-ed over trying to make a peanut butter flavoured cake but finally settled on a chocolate cake with a peanut butter flavoured icing. The cake had some mild [...]

We had a fun cake to make this week, one we were looking forward to as soon as we knew what they wanted. We are both fans of the films of Hayao Miyazaki, so a cake based off of Ponyo his latest, more child friendly, film excited us. They wanted the main focus to be [...]

Our centrepiece cake this year was a pumpkin cake. Well, actually it was a butter cake, but it was shaped like a pumpkin.. that still counts as a pumpkin cake right? We were attempting not to be left with too much leftover cake so we just made it an 8 inch round cake, 3 layers [...]

Don’t forget to say cheese! This camera was for a graduate in fine arts, and an old fashioned camera was on her graduation invites. The recipient is also starting her own photography business. So when left to come up with an appropriate design copying the camera from the invite seemed the obvious choice. The design [...]

July seems to be a popular month for birthdays. This is a cake we made for one of the many July babies, though we won’t mention how old this one was turning *grins* The recipient is a regular on the blues dancing scene so the design needed to incorporate that general theme. A testament to [...]