Lived a ma-a-an, Who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life,
In the la-a-and of submarines
We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine….
I’ll save you the rest of the song, I’m sure we all know how it goes. I remember being taught it in primary school… It made a nice change [...]

A 60th birthday was approaching, we were asked to provide the cake.. With a small catch, it needed delivering to New Orleans.*
We were given fairly free reign with this cake, as long as it fed 200 people, tasted good and had a 60s/hippy theme then all was well. Given the delivery requirements we also had [...]

The first known recipe using the term “cupcake” appeared in an American cookbook in 1826, although they were probably made long before then. It became revolutionary because of the short length of time it took to cook, their size meaning that the outside was not burnt before the inside was baked. In recent years the [...]

While studying as part of my coursework I had to design and make two showpieces, one in chocolate and one in sugar.
The one in chocolate had to be film or book themed so I went with Harry Potter. Using two big heavy tomes (titled from the series) as my base I then had the phoenix, [...]

Of course we couldn’t let our favourite holiday go by without some sort of party!
Wanting to build a bigger and much more impressive cake than the past we settled on the majority of it being made from styrofoam, with only the top four inches being edible. This meant we could get an impressive centrepiece, while [...]

July saw four friends sharing a birthday party. We wanted a cake that would give each person a cake at least partially tailored to them, while coming together into one presentation.
We briefly considered a tiered cake, with each person getting a tier each, but put that idea to the side after deciding that it would [...]

And what does a 64th Birthday need but a Beatles themed party.
And of course every Beatles themed party needs a Beatles themed cake.
The cake of the day was Ringo Starr’s bass drum. Made of a lemon chiffon cake with vanilla English buttercream. The drum face was covered in fondant, to get that pure white, but [...]

Butterfly book.  A 9″x13″ red velvet cake with cream cheese icing.  The butterfly and simulated text were designed and painted by Martin Whitmore.

Bolt’s dog tag.  A 12″ chocolate cake with chocolate English buttercream and milk modeling chocolate exterior.  The entire outside was detailed with an edible bronze powder to give it the appearance of metal.