View from Bridport, over the hills and far away...

This one was a big one and a very personal one for me. My mums wedding cake! She decided to trust me with the task. She particularly wanted some kin of representation of the hill we live under one the cake to reflect how happy her and her husband have been there so we had a rough idea where to start but other than that she left it to me really.

I decided to go for a heart shaped tin which was huge actually! And went for two layers which I baked with my grandmother help as I needed two pair of hands to get it in and out of the ovan ha! The first layer was a basic Madeira sponge recipe and the second was a lemon sponge which was sooo scrummy! I sandwiched it all together with a lemon butter cream. 

The cake wasn't completely covered with fondant because I had the idea to cover the sides with white chocolate cigarillos so the icing wasn't to much which made it a lot easer for me to use a template to cover the top. Then the fun bits! 

Here's a little snap I the hill, my favourite view from our balcony ... 

Hello and sorry for the lack of sugar.

Firstly I would like to apologise for my huge lack of posting over the summer months. I was off doing exciting things in Thailand and Australia! I have a few posts I want to share that I managed to pull out of the bag somehow! 

we're off to the zoo.

excuse the terrible photo's of this one the camera made it look all shiny and glossy! it was actually allot more matte than this! It needs something else you know! I was happy with it but only 90% happy!

"Hi Barbie, Hi Ken"

This is for a little girl that's six tomorrow! I hope she likes it, it's the perfect little girls dream cake! It was just a simple cake mixture with jam and butter cream in the middle. It was a bit of night mare to cook in the pyrex basin and there were more than a few knives stuck in it to check it was perfect but I got there in the end. Also, I couldn't beleive how well the icing went on the cak to cover it!

I decided to completely cover the cake first and then cut out a little hole for barbie to sit in then filled it back up with cake and icing finishing it of with a white frill of icing to hid the gaps! All in all a sucsessful day caking!

C.O.F

I am so happy with this cake! it was for a very special baba who happens to be my God son, it was his christening a few days ago and I was asked if I would do the cake.. It was a serious cake! SIXTEEN eggs! luckily there were no problems at all cooking it and it came out perfectly. I popped a cheeky bit of butter cream and jam in the middle to keep it really tasty and moist.

On to the icing of it, I wanted to use baby blue to cover it to make it that little bit more 'boyish' which I think worked really well actually, and then chose really bold brights so its playful and fun. The idea of a more traditional christening cake really scared me so I am afraid I played it safe and stuck to what I know best. The lettering was actually very similar to a canvas I had painted for his christening pressie by a very talented friend of mine who I think I am going to to a separate blog post on because I think she deserves some recognition for her clever, paint covered fingers.

hope you like this one!  

Birthday Balls!

I Am SOOOO incredibly proud of this! This cake was for my boyfriends Dads 50th birthday this past weekend! I mad it with a very simple sponge and did need help with the initial covering of the cake with the green icing, however everything else I sculpted and stressed over for five hours! But I am so happy with how it turned out. I wish I had taken a few photos of the process of making the character because I did it really simply piece by piece and It would be nice to show you guys just how easy it can be. I got the idea from a book filled with all sorts of cake designs, I'm so glad I found it, because I was stressing so badly about what cake to make for the occasion! 

all in all, I am DEAD pleased with it. 

I'd forgotten about this!

Why I miss summer! Prizes for cakes and pear cider!

The importange of making a mess.

Something I love about cooking is how much mess I get to make! I think its import to stop panicing about being perfectly clean and tidy it makes me feel to steructered I completely ignore the "Clean as you go" rule! I managed to get half way through a recipe and relise I had no vanilla extract left! aaaaarrrghhhh! panic stations! I left to kitchen as it was and ran to the supermarket only to discover they had none in stock! three shops later I finally found some! :)

 The above were my Friends 21st birthday cakes yesterday! however shes way to hungover to eat them! I meant well!

August

Good Afternoon! I thought today I would put the second entry I created for a local show, however by the time they actually got to be exhibited they were looking a bit tired as my mother had got the dates wrong and thought the show was a day earlier than it actually was which meant they were a little past they're best!
anyway I made my own sunshine seeing as our summer is non existent!

This little piggy..

pink pigs! I think these might be in a competion I'm going to enter! they were really easy I preferred the way they turned out with the butter icing as the base colour rather that the royal icing! any thoughts?

cakes for the troops

A whole load of my family are giving up a day of they're precious time to help my muma decorate the church for my big brothers wedding.. I thought they could do with some sugar to keep them going!

Haribelle makes?!

I just taking a brief moment to side step cakes atm! I just wanted to show everyone a few of the wonderful things me and my muma have been making for my brothers wedding.

The bottles contain elder flower cordial, homemade! and I think the heart wooden tags to go round the necks where found on ebay! I think the idea worked out really well, it's instead of just having boring jugs of water on the tables! And all the pretty tea light holders we decorated ourselves it took blood sweat and glue for two solid hours but the end result is really effective and really cheap to do, the small tumblers that we used were only like 60p each and the ribbon wasn't very expensive! money put to good use! :) 

Minty minty mouthful!

My boyfriend knows only too well my favorite chocolate in the world is mint aero! mint aero bubbles?! even better! He took a little visit to a cash and carry and returned home to me with a HUGE box of mint aero bubble's which sparked a little idea light bulb in my mind when I was bored to tears at work today! So as soon as I got home I set about it. 

I wanted to make chocolate and mint cuppy cakes! I made a basic chocolate cake mix for the sponge and then twisted the usall butter cream I make and use to include mint! then of course my cheeky little decoration using the millions of aero bubble my boyf supplied me with in the week! 

I'm not sure which i prefer, with the entire aero bubble on the top or them cut into halves?! 

Happy space!

I don't know if anyone will find this interesting or not but this is where all my little cakes come to life. its our little red kitchen!

I think its important to say, I don't make any cakes for any reason at all. I would love to one day be able to use this funny little talent I seem to have been blessed with. 

My friends think I'm crazy for not following it up as a career 'right now' I'm so excited to use it in the future though! So anyway here's our quirky little kitchen that makes many many many! amazing things!

In need of icing inspiration!

I would really like to enter a few shows this year with my cakes! ive been doing alot of thinking and had a perhapds, not so surprising, realisation! I love baking and would really like to work harder to see if maybe i could use this tasty little skill i seem to have! So im appealing for show entry idea's at the moment! i will keep you posted!

More bank holiday baking!

obviously people in my family have too much time on their hands when bank holidays are concerned!

Really went to town on the whole red white and blue huh?!

I actually ate a bit of this cake for breakfast! so good! 

Jubilee Jollies!

Was asked by my boss to make some 'jubilee' muffins, however I'm really not that confident with muffins I think its because they're a bit out of my comfort zone! so I i did borring normal cup cakes instead! I used these cute union jack cases I found in waitrosse with a strock of luck when I was running around town in a blind panic trying to find some Queeny style ones!

They look like stilton?!

I've never made blueberry muffins before! and they turned out so well! i couldnt beleive it i was expecting a blue mess when I opened the ovan but had a lovely surprise to find them cooked perfectly. The recipe I used only requires 3oz of melted butter which seemed like a tiny ammout! but its made up with 2 large eggs that our chickens had laid for me this morning and 200ml of milk, because I cant ave milk I used my special lactofree milk and they still turned out amazingly well! very chuffed! I actually got the blueberries from Lidl becuase theyre plum tomateos that they sell i can eat by the handfull so I decided to trust them and buy blueberries there too they didn't dissapoint! 

P.s excuse the photo of my shaby purple nails... just couldnt resist comparing colours!