We had a cake this weekend for a bridal shower, so we decided to squeeze in an extra post this week (hopefully – assuming I remember to post on Wednesday) to show it off.

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 [...]

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 [...]

For the local astronomical society we made a butter cake with English buttercream. Covered in fondant and airbrushed to resemble the night sky, with just the last hints of daylight on the horizon. The stars are pearl dragees and royal icing, for some variety in size, then we added some large stars on wires.

We were set the task of creating a Roman themed cake “with pillars and marble” for a toga party. Settling on a slightly different presentation to normal we created the base with the cake being held up by the pillars, painted to resemble marble. The main challenge was how to decorate buttercream to look like [...]

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, [...]

A silhouette-style butter cake with chocolate English buttercream, covered and detailed in fondant. The base is tinted piping gel with chocolate and tiramisu filled cookie wafer sticks.