Linda
My daughter is to be the big 30 so I wanted to make her a giant cupcake cake for a surprise. I had to make the decorations first. I made two different flowers in assorted sizes and when these had hardened I coloured the centres of the flowers with some food colouring watered down with … Read more
A friend of mine approached me and asked if I could make a baby shower cake for a friend of a friend. She gave me all the details of what she wanted the cake to look like when finished and I agreed to make it for her and this is how I set about making … Read more
I loved making this cake for a friend of ours little girls baptism She asked me for a vanilla sponge bottom tier and a chocolate sponge top tier so that’s what I baked, before baking the cake I needed to make the flowers so they would dry out I made assorted sizes of the same … Read more
A friend of mine asked me if I could do a super hero cake for a friend of hers son who was to become 6 years old, well I love a challenge so I agreed to do it, she decided to leave the cake to me so I decided to do Superman, Spiderman and Batman. … Read more
I love baking cakes and I only need an excuse to get started. My Husband’s birthday is January 1st and he was 53 and I just had to make him a cake. He likes to go to the pub to relax and I decided I wanted to make a beer barrel cake. This is how … Read more
My favourite hobby is baking cakes. It was to be my son’s friends 30th birthday he works for my son at his electrical business, well I decided to make him a cake that looks like a drum of cable as last time I made him a football cake and wanted to do something different and … Read more
I made this metal detector cake for my son. Yes, my son’s birthday was approaching again. He was to be 32 years old. To me this means a cake and I’m always sure of a challenge. I love surprising him and at the moment he’s into metal detecting. So, I decided to base the cake on … Read more
My lovely granddaughter Brooke was 4 years old on bonfire night. Brooke is my little cake maker in training. She loves baking and I’ve mentioned her before in my featured cake baker profile. Well, she loves the Doc McStuffins programs and asked me to make her a Doc Stuffins cake for her birthday. I told … Read more
This is my 1st wedding cake and I was asked by my daughter to make this one for her special day. She gave me a picture of the design she had chosen. The cake had 4 tiers: The bottom was an 11” vanilla sponge cake The next tier was a 9” cake dummy covered in … Read more
I was asked to make a christening cake for my niece’s sister in law. She wanted 1 tier to be pink and 1 tier to be blue due to her friend’s baby being christened at the same time as her baby and they decided to share the cake. I have made a cake like this … Read more
My friend’s granddaughter wanted a Hello Kitty cake made for her 4th birthday. She also loves Mr. Tumble so this is what we decided to make for her. I had to make the kitty first so it would harden and be ready when I started decorating the cake. I first made the body of the … Read more
I was asked by a friend of a friend to make this One Direction cake for her daughter’s 11th birthday. She loves One direction. First I had to make a model of Harry. I measured a piece of baking paper the same size as the cake tin and then worked out how big to make … Read more