Daniels Birthday

Now I had missed my nephew Daniels Birthdays as I had been living far away and low and behold the birthday I live close for, I'm working! So I had to make the ultimate cake for his Birthday party. He loves toy story and I wanted to make a massive toy story cake to fill everyone at the party and so I had some left when I turned up after work. I baked three tiers with the help of my mum and brother. 

The bottom layer I covered in yellow fondent and some patches of white. I then painted on a pattern with orange food colouring and added the black patches for the cow print style.

I made the second layer blue and made a brown belt to go around the middle and some belt hooks to look like Woody's jeans. 

I then made the top layer and covered it in an alien green fondent and baby blue stars.

 The finishing touches: I made some small fondent cubes and hand painted them to look like letter building blocks. I wrote 'Happy Birthday' in them

 I also added a gold sheriffs badge and piped on a '4'

 I then piped round the bases of each cake to cover the divide that had been made by the dowl that held each cake up. I also piped the bottom around the white patches for an elegant finish.

 I hand painted to 'shooting marks' on the stars to make them look like shooting stars!

 I made a cloud shape out of edible paper and piped on Daniels name and held it up with some more buttercream. My mum set fire to it when she lit the candles.

 And then I added a Buzz!

 Here's my original idea. It's pretty much the same apart from Daniels name.
The rest is photos of my special guy on his Birthday.

Scotts Birthday

My cousin Scott turned 19 in August and he's a drummer and my brother and I wanted to make a drum cake to look like his Mapex drum kit. We used a round cake and made a white circle for the top. I then measured out a long strip of orange for the outside and long this black strip for the outside edge. After then I made a mapex logo using a black fondent square, letter cutters and some silver shiver dust. I used the shimmer dust to make the silver cogs and used glack icing to join them up.  I also made some decorative silver stars and blue lettering. I wrapped two skewers in fondent to make the drum sticks. 

He really liked it. 

Beckys Birthday

My Auntie Becky has her Birthday on the same day as her Wedding Anniversary and I wanted to make her a really special cake. I had seen a bouquet done before and wanted to do something similar where cupcakes are scewered into the cake to make a bouquet. I wanted to make Becky a plant pot. 

 Here's a sketch I did to outline what my cake might look like

 This is my attempt at a sort of scientific drawing I did to show how the cupcakes (made to look like flowers would be on scewers and put in the cake.
We cooked the cake in a bowl to give it a pot shape then we scewered cupcakes all over. We decorated each cupcake like a flower and covered any space in fondent roses, flowers all sorts. I even made orange fondent to look like a pot and covered the outside in it.
Here's the result.

Mums Anniversary Cake

My mum had big order for an Anniversary cake for a couple who'd been together 50 years. 

She made a massive fruit cake with two tiers and covered it in white fondent and decorated it using fondent leaves and letter and flowers that she's sprayed gold. 

My mum with her massive cake. Love her! x

Lemon Daisy Cupcakes

So  I had a go at making some lemon flavour cupcakes with some lemon flavour icing. I mixed in some lemon juice and lemon curd into the cake mixture and baked them. When they were baked I then made some buttercream and added a drop of lemon juice and a scoop of lemon curd. I then decorated the with some edible paper daisys and some glitter. Yum yum!

Mums Buzzy Bee Cake

 So my mum has been making cakes for various friends and she got a request for a busy bee cake. I helped her with the bees. We made them by taking some black fondent and yellow fondent, we then rolled three small black balls and two yellow and squished them together working them with our hand until we had the round shape. We then poked faces into them and added edible paper wings.

 Here's my mum with her cake.

Here's a close up of the busy bees. 

Josh's Cake

 So here's a cake my brother Connor made with a bit of my help. It's for my mums boyfriends son Josh and it's a Pokeball. We used white and red fondent to cover each side of the cake and covered the middle in black glace.

Here's Connor with his cake.

Lee's Birthday

So I now live with my sister Catherine and her boyfriend Lee. Pretty much as soon as I moved it was Lee's Birthday. He works fixing and selling yachts and boats and runs his own boat repair business. He is a bit obsessed with all things that float, haha! So of course a nautical themed boat cake was in order.

Here's what I came up with:

 I covered the cake in a blue fondent that I just couldn't get blue enough, I then took some more food colouring and painted on the food colouring with a paint brush in a wave pattern. So if you look closely the cake has waves going across. I then took ordinary glace icing and used it to create the little sailing boat and the writing. I wanted it to look almost drawn and rustic looking. It was delicious, but everyones faces were blue after eating it!!

Lee and he Birthday cacen!

My Last English Cake

So a quick update. I am officially living in Wales back in the hands of my family. Things with the other half and I didn't work out and essentially I couldn't run back to my family quick enough. The whole situation is really sad and I don't want to talk about it as thats not what this blog is about. It's about one of the things that makes me happy and has kept me positive, my cakes (also providing plenty of much needed comfort food). So here's a quick photo of the last cakes I made at me little flat. 

Just some cupcakes that I made, I splodged a bit of buttercream on the top and then little fondent circles on top. I then decorated them with small white flowers I made using a cutter and topped them off with some pink sugar pearls.

Sprouts Birthday

It was my boyfriend Neils Birthday on the 31st of March. He was 30 and we've been together nearly 4 years so of course I couldn't see him go without a pretty cake! I started with a basic sponge mix and made 2 tray bakes. I gave them a day to settle as always because if you try working with a fresh cake it'll crumble and you just can't do anything with it! I then layered them up. Cake with a layer of mixed fruit jam, then a layer of butter cream, a second layer of mixed fruit jam and then another cake. I then trimmed round the edges to square it off and to look pretty and smoother round the edges with some spare butter cream.


I put jam over the top of the cake to make it sticky, rolled out some marzipan and covered the cake. I them sealed the cake by using a pastry brush to paint it with vodka.

After that I got out the ready to roll icing and and coloured it orange. Squished it with my hands to make it nice and soft and easy to shape, I then rolled it out nice and thin and cover the whole cake. I used icing tools to cut off the edges nice and smooth, and to smooth out any air bubbles in the cake. Neil supports wolverhampton wanderers hence the orange. I also looked up on google for a picture of the logo and copied it onto some grease proof paper.

Then using some more ready to roll fondent I used icing tools and a pizza cutter to make the shape of the logo and using lots of care and little bit of water I put the logo in the center of the cake. Unbelievably I managed to get it in the middle and if I say so myself, I think it looked fairly decent. hehehe.

I then put some black butter cream into a piping back and used a thin nozzle to pipe out "Sprout" (thats Neils nickname and what everyone knows him by) "happy birthday". I then piped a big 3 and a 0 as he was 30. Funny thing was that the way it looked it looked like 3-nil and with Wolves playing that day I was very much hoping they wouldn't lose by 3-nil because I might look like I was taking the mick! Luckily they didn't.

Here is the finished product! Neil sent me a text at work when he saw it that said "cake looks superb! We better not lose by 3-0 tho!". So I'm glad to say he liked it, and so did I. Very pleased with it. The rest of the photos are of Sprout blowing out his candles after him and I and 18 of our friends had a sit down dinner at our local and of the rest of the evening.



Thankyou so much to all of our friends who cake at such short notice to sit and have dinner with us and share Sprouts birthday. It was a lovely night and it was good to see all the cake gone! To my Sprouty, Happy 30th Birthday. It's been 3 and a half years already and it's been no picnic but I love you with all my heart and always will and spending days making you a cake is just one of the things I will do and will keep doing to make you happy. To many more Birthdays together! x