anniversary cakes

Diamond Wedding and 80th birthday

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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

Two tier diamond wedding

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Rachel and Patrick are celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary with a family lunch at a local eatery. Their daughter ordered this two tiered cake – the bottom tier is lemon sponge with home made lemon curd and the top is a chocolaty chocolate sponge. Circlets of sugar roses and a bespoke topper to finish it off.

Very many congratulations to you both

Computer cake

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A little while ago I made another birthday cake for Jack. It has become something of an annual tradition to have a big white square cake with blue and white bunting and a different aspect of Jack’s life modelled on the top. This year it was his computer and headphones. I understand your party was a great success again Jack. Many happy returns

Golden wedding lace and freesias

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Another golden wedding anniversary. Trevor and Alyson chose a lovely rich fruit cake soaked in brandy and covered in traditional marzipan and icing. 50 years ago, Alyson had a lace dress and carried a bouquet of multi coloured freesias so I tried to replicate that in sugar on the cake. Great party as well. Happy Anniversary you two.

Sporty Golden Wedding

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Liz and Martin celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with a family party at Chewton Glen. They are both keen sports players – Liz of tennis and Martin of golf and they particularly wanted a cake that would reflect those interests. Inside is a lemon sponge layered with home made lemon curd. On top are a sugar golf club and tennis racquet and a pretty golden message. Congratulations to you both.

Petanque anniversary cake

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The New Milton Petanque Club celebrated its 30th birthday last weekend. Because of the vagaries of the British summer they wanted a cake that could be put in the freezer if the necessarily al fresco party had to be postponed. So we went for a jam and buttercream filled number 30 covered in a simple buttercream with sugar petanque balls on the top. From the photos on their website, no-one needed to worry about the weather and a good time was had by all.

Roses, freesias and white chocolate

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Sarah and Steve sing in the same choir as me. They celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary last weekend with friends and family from all over the world. Sarah wanted a lemon and white chocolate sponge big enough to feed everyone and decorated with the yellow roses and freesias that she carried in her bouquet 40 years ago. I also made a few gluten free lemon and white chocolate cup cakes for those that preferred them. Very many congratulations to you both.

John and Maggie’s golden wedding

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Maggie and John celebrated 50 years of marriage this weekend with an informal garden party for their friends. They chose a lemon layer cake iced with sugar models of the three things they felt represented them the best.. their first car a Morris 1000 Traveller, their joint passion for gardening and their beloved dog Matt. There is a very subtle nod to the goldenness of their anniversary in the colour of the writing and trim but nobody is really counting are they? Congratulations to you both.

Golden Wedding Sponge cake

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I made a birthday cake for Amy’s mum a couple of years ago and she contacted me again to ask for a golden wedding cake for their important family celebration. This is a layered vanilla sponge with jam and buttercream filling, topped with gold and white blossoms and gold script. She picked the cake up on the way to the family celebration. Hope you all had fun and that the cake went down well.

Anemone diamond wedding

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Another diamond wedding anniversary with sugar flowers to match the bridal bouquet of 60 years ago. This time the flowers are lovely purple anemones which I loved making. Inside is a fresh lemon and buttercream layer cake. The cake was a surprise to Margaret and Mike from their family. I think we managed to keep the secret. Congratulations