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Katie and Matts Wedding Cake I was first introduced to Katie through Kent Wedding Swap Shop. They were getting married in 5 weeks but the person who was originally going to make their cake couldn't deliver it to the venue on the day. The brief was 3 tiers, dark purple ribbon (def not Cadbury purple.) and a character cake topper for the top tier. The cake was 3 tiers of different flavour sponges, covered in butter icing and double iced in ivory icing. Nice and simple, but nice and simple isn't always easy! Nice and simple means the cake  often doesn't have much decoration of which means there is no room for error. The sides and top have to be perfect as there is nothing you can use to hide any flaws in the icing. The cake and cake board were edged in a deep purple ribbon with a ribbon bow and large diamate broach on the top tier. The broach was attached to the cake with a large dollop of royal icing and allowed to dry before transporting. As I was going alone to th

Is it really that long ago I made that cake? I recently made a Bob the Builder cake for a little boy, Tommy, who was 2 years old. I hadn't realised that Bob was still popular.  There was much discussion regarding the style of the cake, but eventually the client found a Bob the Builder Cake on my website that was just what she was looking for. The cake itself was no problem, easily done , but it got me thinking! The cake on the website was for "Harry" age 1. Well, Harry is now 14 so it's 13 years ago that I made that cake. Looking through my pictures there were a number of cakes that I have made where the child is now an adult or about to get married themselves. It made me feel very old but also very proud that the families involved still want me to make their cakes for them many years on, and soon Harry will be 18!

Is it really that long ago I made that cake? I recently made a Bob the Builder cake for a little boy who was 2 years old. I hadn't realised that Bob was still popular. There was much discussion regarding the style of the cake, but eventually the client found a Bob the Builder Cake on my website that was just what she was looking for. The cake itself was no problem, easily done , but it got me thinking! The cake on the website was for "Harry" age 1. Well, Harry is now 14 so it's 13 years ago that I made that cake. Looking through my pictures there were a number of cakes that I have made where the child is now an adult or about to get married themselves. It made me feel very old but also very proud that the families involved still want me to make their cakes for them many years on, and soon Harry will be 18!

Really I have no interest in any computer games, not even Candy Crush which many people I know are addicted to. So when people ask me to make cakes relating to computer games, I always find it tricky to ensure I achieve exactly what the child or person loves about the game, and often have to rely on the expertise of my 11 & 5 year old sons!!! Minecraft cakes have been really popular recently. I have made 3 in about  6 weeks, with their characters, and the cake covered in hundreds of black, brown, and green squares. As I have said before having the Internet with such a good supply of pictures is is really useful. However it still takes time to cut out the 400 or so squares and stick them on the cake in straight lines to get the overall effect!!! Then there is the standing figures which obviously also have to be standing when they reach their final destination. Figures can be tricky and making them strong enough often involves inserting dowels, cocktail sticks or cake pop sticks thro

Happy bank holiday to you all!  I have neglected my blog recently after only 2 posts. That's really bad, but I have been so busy! I will give you a run down of some of my recent cakes So I am working on a lot of flowers for various cakes at the moment, mostly roses in red, ivory and gold. My cake room looks a bit like a florist. So most evenings when my partner gets home I escape back into my room for an hour to put few more petals on! They are coming along nicely but a long way to go yet. So my first cake this week, was an American Football cake for the Miami Dolphins. Even though I have been doing this for a long time, sometimes it's good for something to nearly go wrong to remind us why we do all the preparation paperwork etc. I never feel that I stop learning in this job! I was asked by a dear friend to make a cake for his work colleagues 50th in the theme of Miami Dolphins. This was a few weeks ago and due to holidays the paperwork never got completed we just corresponded

Having made a decision in 2007 that I wasn't going to make any more cakes, and sold a lot of my equipment,  it was a bit of a shock to my friends and family when in 2012 out of the blue,  I announced I was not only going to start making cakes again, but also set myself up as a bona fide business and make it my full time job! Back in 2007 I was working pretty much full time, with 2 children who had many after school activities. I found that it was just impossible to make cakes for people in the time I had left. I am not very good if I don't get enough sleep so working into the small hours was not an option, especially with work the next day. A few years later, my youngest son was going to be starting school, and having stopped work when he was born to look after him, I was beginning to be concerned as to what I was going to do when he wasn't at home anymore. The idea of not working is great, but in reality I found that most people do work once their children start scho

So here it is, my blog! I dont know much about "blogging" but thought I would give it a go!! I am often asked how I got into cake decorating in the first place! It's something I often think about as it was quite by chance. In 1992 I completed my finals for my Biochemistry degree which had taken 5 years of day release. Instead of like the rest of my colleagues who had finished their degrees, who  were all looking forward to no more college, home work etc.  the thought of all this spare time scared me! I am still even now no good at doing nothing or relaxing. I had a morbid interest in my family history, and I still do! It's something I work on when I am not making cakes! So I found an evening class in family history at a nearby Adult Education Centre.  I was so looking forward to this, but with a couple of days to go the course was cancelled due to lack of interest. Apparently I am/ was in the minority of people who want to find out about "dead people"