Remember yesterday’s Wedding cake? This is the utterly awesome Groom’s cake that went with it. Red velvet with cream cheese icing he is what we’re calling a “character cake” mostly flat with some shape and relief built up, out of both cake and fondant.

A lovely cake for a lovely couple, we were delighted they chose us to be a part of their special day. The cake at the top of the tower is red velvet with a cream cheese icing, all the cupcakes are a mix of red velvet with cream cheese and butter cake with vanilla buttercream. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Let me start by saying that what I know about South American cooking can be written on the back of a postage stamp… in large print. That is to say, I don’t know much. I first tried an empanada at the Farmers market, it was early, I was hungry, there was meat wrapped in dough. [...]

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 [...]

Recently we acquired some new cookie cutters, one of which was the most adorable little tea cup, with a matching tea pot. Well, I just had to make something with them, the tea cups were so small, we thought about using them to top a cupcake.. But what cupcake would have a tea cup on [...]

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 [...]

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