Oliver’s mum asked me to make a Star Wars themed cake for his 5th birthday. She has all the character models at home so we just needed a midnight blue cake with stars and a suitable logo. Inside is a chocolate layer cake made with organic ingredients as far as possible. Over to mum to finish the decorations.
Mags held a party in her garden to celebrate her 65th birthday. She has a particular penchant for sea otters and so Ian asked if I could make a cake with a sea otter floating on it for her. Of course.. and look at the wavy candles i found! I couldn’t resist adding the chicken as I knew that a couple of days earlier four new chickens had come to live in their hen house. I love doing cakes like this.. Happy birthday Mags x
Jill and Eric celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary with family and friends at a local hotel. This is a rich fruit cake (Eric’s favourite) iced with marzipan and white fondant and decorated with diamond ribbons. On the side is a bunch of hand made sugar sweet peas.
Jill was married on her 20th birthday so has always had to share her birthday celebrations with her anniversary. This year, she decided that she would also have her favourite cake – a squishy chocolate sponge, filled with chocolate fudge, iced in chocolate buttercream and covered in chocolate sweets and golden sprinkles. I hope you both had a wonderful day and congratulations
People find me in may different ways and Janet was put in touch with me by our hairdresser. Janet wanted a special but simple cake to share with her family and friends on her 80th birthday. This is a vanilla madeira cake filled with jam and buttercream and topped with tiny pink and mauve sugar flowers in the shape of the eighty. Just right.
Sarah and her family were gathering in Devon to celebrate sister Clare’s big birthday. Sarah gave me a long list of Clare’s interests including gardening, walking, DIY and of course her pug. Apparently she is also known for having an extremely overcrowded diary. Underneath all these sugar models is a big chocolate sponge – Sarah sent me a photo and said that it had been a success. I’m just glad it made it to Beer in one piece – it was sooo hot!
Penny is a keen golfer and Ian asked me to make a cake with a model of her putting on a green on the top. This is a lemon cake iced in fondant to look a bit like the golf course. Penny is wearing her club colours but I fear it looks as though she is going to miss that putt unless there is a bit of a swing on the green! Happy birthday Penny
Henry loves his Lego and this Ninjago character is the favourite currently. His mum found a picture of a cake that would fit the bill so I made a lemon layer cake and iced it to suit. Happy birthday Henry
Janine organised a surprise party for her husbands 80th birthday. Peters interests are horse-racing, holidays and wine and they like both chocolate and lemon cake. So the eight is a lemon cake filled with lemon curd and decorated with sugar wine bottles and holiday paraphernalia. The zero is chocolate cake iced to look a bit like a race track with sugar railings. Janine popped some little model race horses on it and we had all bases covered. Not so easy hiding a giant cake until it was needed but hey ho..
Lucy contacted me to order a 4th birthday cake for her son Noah. My remit was chocolate sponge cake in the shape of a ‘happy dragon’ but crucially, that it must be wearing a red hat! Here we go, always fun to make something like this. Hope you all had fun
Back at the start of the summer, New Milton Petanque Club had a grand opening of their two new terrains. I was asked to supply a suitably celebratory fudge filled chocolate cake for the occasion. I understand the newly elected mayor dignified the occasion and that it all went well,
Cakes on Sea 