Posts tagged "cake"

My Book – The Baking Pocket Bible

I can’t quite believe it – I’ve written a book! It’s in the shops and on Amazon and people are buying it! Those of you who follow me on twitter will probably know by now that last year I was approached by Crimson Publishing, who had been reading my blog and asked if I’d be...

March Bake It! Club

Having said I wasn’t going to do a link-up for the recipes this month, I was then pointed in the direction of inlinkz, which seems to be similar to what I was using before. So we’ll give this a go! I’ve seen several carrot and orange cakes popping up on blogs and I’m pleased to...

Billy The Bear Birthday Cake

Last year I made a rabbit shaped cake for Tegan’s birthday so I was delighted when her Mum came back to me this year and asked if I’d make another cake for her. This time Tegan wanted a cake in the shape of her favourite toy – Billy The Bear! I was sent a photo...

March Bake It! recipe – carrot and orange cake

Last month was manic and I’m afraid life got in the way of baking and blogging so there was no Bake It! recipe – apologies to those who missed it. It also means I didn’t get to announce the prize winner from January’s recipe, which didn’t seem to be very popular as there were only...

Snowflake Wedding Cake

I loved working on this wedding cake – such a simple but stylish design. The bottom and top tiers are fruit cake with a vanilla sponge for the middle tier. The cakes are covered in sugar paste, decorated with snowflakes and edible gems and finished off with pretty purple ribbon. Congratulations to Rob and Karen...

Christening cake

A couple of weeks ago it was my niece, Florence’s, Christening day. As well as making her this crochet blanket as a gift, I was in charge of making the Christening cake. The bottom layer was chocolate and the top was vanilla, decorated with fondant stripes and buttons. I modelled the little shoes on top...

Simple is best

Some days you just don’t want to spend ages decorating fancy cupcakes that children will pick to pieces, so today I decided simple is best. They’re messy but I’m sure they’ll go down well! Perhaps I should pretend the children decorated them? 🙂

A few cakes

Just realised I haven’t blogged any cake pictures for a while, so here are a few I’ve made recently. A 21st birthday cake for one of the staff at Faith’s nursery. A few cupcakes I iced as a demonstration in one of my cupcake classes. Mini cupcakes tower that I donated to the ‘Revealing Experience...

October Bake It! Club

Here we are again, rapidly approaching the end of the month and it is time to see all those yummy Sticky Ginger cakes that you’ve been baking. I hope you enjoyed the recipe. I have seen a few blog posts and a few pictures floating around twitter, and aside from some exploding cakes(!), the feedback...

October Bake It! recipe – sticky ginger cake

Hope you all enjoyed last month’s recipe – I certainly had some very positive feedback. Congratulations to Gemma from Growing My Family Tree who was the winner of the cupcake book. Look forward to seeing any cupcake ideas you try out 🙂 Now the weather is turning cold and damp I thought I’d try out...

Wedding Cakes

Here are a few photos of a couple of wedding cakes I have made recently. The first was for some good friends of ours, which made me extremely nervous as we were invited to the wedding and I had fears of the cake tasting horrible or collapsing! It was really nice to do something a...

September Bake It! recipe – apple crumble cupcakes

Thank you to everyone who joined in with last month’s recipe – lovely to see some new faces too. All the creations looked yummy and there were some great variations involving different chocolate, apples and cinnamon. Congratulations to Sian at Pumpkin and Piglet who the random number generator picked as the winner of the lovely...