Denise’s friend Kim had a milestone birthday coming up. She has a new pink and blue beach hut which is her pride and joy. Denise is an expert cake baker but asked me if I would make a sugar beach hut to put on the top of her creation. Here we go, a completely edible beach hut complete with inevitable seagull!
It is Sue’s 70th birthday and her friends wanted a cake to celebrate her life as a dancer and love of Motown music. So I decorated this chocolate cake as a vintage record player complete with sugar LP and dancer silhouette. Everything edible except for the board, ribbon and one wire running through the stylus arm. One of the party girls is gluten intolerant so I made the turn table under the record from a big round gluten free chocolate brownie.
Afterwards, Judy wrote me a lovely email
A pretty pink cake for Stuart to take up to his daughter today. Simple vanilla buttercream sponge iced with flowers and little sparkly butterflies
Sam is 18 today. While he was out on the golf course with his dad this morning, I delivered this chocolate fudge filled chocolate cake. I decorated it to look like his own bed and put him inside wearing his beloved cap and his golf club shirt. The teenage essentials of pizza, phone, headphones and games console as well as golf balls, discarded clothes and his yachting magazine were liberally sprinkled around him. Happy birthday Sam.
Valerie lives in a care home and so at the moment her brother is unable to visit her even on her landmark birthday. He contacted me and requested this lemon cake, filled with home made lemon curd decorated with orange coloured roses. I delivered it this morning. There was plenty to share with staff and other residents. Hope you all had a lovely day.
Barney is 12 this year and still loves chocolate and dinosaurs. Chocolate fudge filled chocolate cake with chocolate ganache icing should be sufficient to satisfy the former and I’m hoping this sugar spinosaurus is good enough for an expert. Happy birthday Barney.
Barry is a dyed in the wool life long Chelsea supporter. It was his birthday this week and he and his wife are having to self isolate through lockdown. Christine ordered a special birthday meal to be delivered from a local restaurant and contacted me to ask for a cake to help them celebrate together. So here is a vanilla Madeira cake filled with jam and buttercream iced with a personalised Chelsea FC logo, delivered to the door.
Christine wrote to me afterwards: ‘Barry was so surprised, he had no idea. Really really nice, as good if not better from anywhere we’ve had previous years. SPOT ON. Thank you so much.
Jill loves her daily coffee fix so what better for her big birthday celebration than a giant coffee cup. Coffee-filled coffee cake shaped and iced to form a completely edible construction (saucer and spoon included). A good centrepiece for a family celebration.
Ann and Ian’s daughter was having a big birthday party so she needed a lot of cake. She dis not want her name or age on the cake so we went for a girly cake in three shades of pink with roses and a big bow. In order to please everyone, the bottom ‘parcel’ was plain Madeira cake filed with jam, the middle was filled chocolate and the top a filled lemon cake. It had to travel 100 miles or so to the party, but I think it made it in one piece.
Sue wanted a non traditional cake for her grandson Anton’s Christening party. He is 2 and loves trains and trucks, particularly Thomas. Chocolate was the request so I just topped the big sticky square cake with an engine and trucks, also made of iced chocolate cake and piped with his name.
Cakes on Sea 