I love decorating cakes as a hobby. I was asked by a close friend to make a number one cake for her friend’s baby. This is how I made it: I started by making a grey bear out of half flower paste and half roll out icing. This hardens better and is easier to model … Read more
Our son was 30 and he is an electrician by trade, so we decided this Electrician birthday cake was a good idea for a cake. I started by making the tools for the top of the cake. I made some pliers, a screwdriver and a plug. These were made out of half flower paste and half roll out … Read more
I started by making the cake topper which was a tree. I used a wooden skewer, placed this into my cake dummy and started winding wire around it and formed the branches of the tree. These were then covered in icing using fondant and flower paste until the tree was the design I wanted. It … Read more
This cake is for our granddaughter who is 2, she loves Raa Raa the noisy lion, so this is what I decided to make for her. I started by making the model lion so this had time to harden. First I made a cone shape in a mustard color. I then attached some white roll out icing … Read more
I was asked by a friend of mine to make a Fred Perry logo cake. I baked an 8” round sponge cake and when cold I filled with jam and butter cream and then sandwiched together and then covered the whole cake in butter cream and placed in the freezer for 10 min until hardened. I … Read more
I was asked to make a cake with a parrot on the top because her partner loved parrots. I started by making the parrot because it had to dry out in stages. I placed a wooden chop stick into a cake dummy and wrapped some wire round it to form the head and the tail of … Read more
This is the first time Ihave made a giant cup cake. I hired a cake tin from a local cake decorating shop, it only cost me £2 to hire for 2 days. This is the recipe I used: 16oz self raising flour 16oz sugar 16oz butter 8eggs vanilla essence Baked at gas #3, just below … Read more
I started by making the car on the Homemade Car Cake. My son’s wife e mailed me some pictures of their car so I could make it out of icing. I started with a small block of white icing and added some flower paste icing this helps the icing to harden. I kneaded this well … Read more
I made this Monkey birthday cake for my youngest son’s 1st birthday. I used the Wilton Monkey pan to bake it. I iced the sides in white icing and then made the outlines on the cake with tip #3. I tinted some icing brown and some with a tiny bit of peach and brown and … Read more
I made this Homemade Penguin Birthday Cake for a friend that collects penguin-themed items. It’s a 2 layer round cake. I made the igloo from the cake scraps and a little icing, and the “doorway” is made of fondant. I sculpted all the little penguins from fondant. There are penguins placed around the sides and … Read more
Funnily enough when I was asked to do a cake of Pucca I had never seen this character before and so I was afraid that it was something difficult to do but as soon as I downloaded a picture of her from the internet I was releaved because it is extremely simple. First of all … Read more
This Peppa Pig Cake was made for a friend of mine for her granddaughter, she loves Peppa Pig. I stared by making Peppa and George pig. I colored some roll out icing in red for Peppa’s clothes and some blue for George’s clothes. I molded these into cone shapes, the red one slightly bigger. I … Read more