Iced Images Cakes - The Wedding Cake Blog

This all white wedding cake was made for the autumn 2018 wedding shows, you may also see it at the winter 2019 shows too. I struggle with all white cakes as I love to add a bit of colour and struggle not to add some maybe as some colour ribbon before its finished. So this was my homage to the all white cake using moulds by  Karen Davies Moulds and  The old piping bag , vertical white stripes on white and an extra large white sugar rose on top, finished with some old fashioned piping!

 Many years ago I made a suitcase wedding cake for my nieces wedding. The picture was on one of my show banners and proved to be very popular at wedding shows. I'd been meaning to make a dummy version for ages but wanted to find the right cases to make. At a recent wedding show I was stood opposite a travel agent who had a stacked pile of cases as part of their display. This was the perfect inspiration. Once I had made the cases I added a passport and airline ticket to the cardboard. The cake could be easily be personalised further by adding luggage labels of places you have travelled or your honey moon destination, and may be an old fashioned brown luggage label with the couples name on and wedding date. The colours and the shapes/ designs can be changed too! The possibilities are endless.

Last summer I was asked to take part in a styled shoot at a new wedding venue, Round Oak Farm in Maidstone. This is a working farm with a large outdoor woodland area which can be used for outdoor weddings. It has so much potential for weddings. The day of the shoot although sunny was very windy and cold, but Claire being a skilled photographer got some amazing shots. My daughter who came with me for something to do before she went off to Uni got roped in as a model too which was totally unexpected. We had a great day and I got to meet and work with some amazing suppliers including Chelsea of  Chelsea Buns Cake Design . Chelsea made the desert table and small cake and I made the large cake. The brief for the shoot was whimsical and  woodland, having had to look up "whimsical" I came up with the cake below with a dream catcher, feathers, silver birch log and some gorgeous little toad stools which I fell in love with! The fabulous suppliers were:- venue: R...

This amazing cake was lucky to get to the client. It was ordered as a birthday cake for one of my grooms birthdays by his now wife. The brief was a chocolate sponge cake edged in flakes and covered in many types of Cadbury Chocolate. The cake consisted on 35 flakes, twirls, wispas, a chocolate egg, various Cadbury buttons and mini picnics! It smelt divine and I was so good I didn't eat any of the sweets but my kids enjoyed the left overs :)

Heather and David were married at  The BarnYard in Upchurch on Friday 9th November. The colours for Heather and David's wedding were dusky pink, rose gold and burgundy. When I met Heather for her consultation she came with water colour sketches of cake ideas. It's always great when brides bring sketches and colours, even if we don't go with that in the end it's a really good base to start from. Heather came up with the final design for the cake just a few weeks before the wedding. A burgundy marble bottom tier, a dusky pink lustre top and middle tier, with rose gold brush stokes on the top tier. Each tier and the cake board were edged in burgundy ribbon. The topper was provided by the bride and groom. The stand used was our wooden box stand.

I LOVE Harry Potter, but sadly the only Harry Potter wedding cake I had been asked to make was a couple of years ago and that was sadly whilst I was away on holiday! Having not been asked since I decided to make my own version for a wedding fair! I had so many ideas running through my head, so many possible options, but in the end I decided to keep it relatively simple (I mean not blast with lots of different colours) but also incorporating a number of well known sayings / phrases and articles from the books! A pair of glasses and a wand were an absolute must! In the end after several sketches I came up with the book at the bottom (But which one? - I did the History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot), with the Marauders Map, the classic "Always" love quote and a golden snitch on the top. In hind sight I thought that actually the footsteps on the top could have formed a heart shape, but I didn't think about this until afterwards. The final cake proved a hit at the weddi...

I wanted to write about the mega road trip I took a couple of weekends ago to deliver two very beautiful cakes. It's complicated and there are so many factors involved that I have put it off as I am not sure how to explain it clearly, but I'll give it ago! Firstly the issues involved:- 1) Wedding cake booked at Salomons Estate, Tunbridge Wells approx 16 miles west of here and on a good run takes 36 minutes. 2) Gorgeous Blackhorse Inn book a wedding open day there 11-3 on the same day. I've been a recommended supplier there for a number of years so keen to take part. I can deliver the cake and get to the Blackhorse around 11.00 no problem. 3) One of my March 2019 brides has to reschedule her wedding and also does this for the same day. This wedding is at East Quay Whitstable, 31 miles east of me and on a good run takes 43 minutes. 4) Both weddings are at 1.30pm 5) Highways England decide to shut the M20 motorway between junctions 4-6 for the whole weekend to repla...