It is Hannah’s birthday today. She has had a really rough year dealing with a diagnosis and then treatment for breast cancer. But, has had the all clear (hurray) and has become quite the local celebrity with her fundraising and appearance in the new cancer research fundraising campaign on national television. Here is her cake festooned with the iconic pink ribbons for breast cancer awareness. Happy Birthday Hannah, you are a star.
Twins Evie and Harry are having their second birthday party today. The Gruffalo is a firm favourite of theirs so here is a chocolate fudge cake topped with all the familiar characters from the story. Hopefully no roasted fox, owl ice cream or scrambled snake today. Have fun
Sam’s latest passion is Minecraft and his mum asked me to make a cake with some of the characters and weapons on the top. She showed me some pictures of the sort of thing that she wanted. Underneath the pixelated icing is a sticky chocolate fudge cake. Everything is of course edible… just right for a party of 6 year olds.
Jack contacted me months ago to ask me to make a cake for his birthday. It needed to feed 30 – 40 people so he chose this 12″ square vanilla sponge filled with jam and buttercream. Jack is a keen photographer, specialising in seascapes and sunsets so what better than a model of his camera and a few hand painted sugar photos to top his cake. There is blue and white bunting all around the sides as well. I hope you had a wonderful day Jack.
Ann has been playing tennis all her life and her family wanted a special cake for her 90th birthday. Inside this racquet is a jam and vanilla sponge and the balls are made out of gluten free sponge cake. Hopefully this meant that everyone could have a bit.. very many congratulations Ann, I am sure you had a lovely day with your family and friends
I’m going to be away for Angus’s sister’s birthday so her mum asked if I could make a sugar Matilda to go on the top of her home made cake. Here she is. All Rachel has to do now is do a bit of baking.
Angus is 8 today and is having his party this afternoon. This is a chocolate fudge Minecraft TNT cake complete with a sugar Minecraft Axolotl …. 
. Anyway, I trust this is what you meant Angus and happy birthday!
Ted’s birthday always falls in the summer holidays and Trish asked me to make him a special cake for his 9th birthday. Underneath the Man U colours is a chocolate sponge filled with sticky chocolate ganache. I understand that the family made short work of it. Happy birthday Ted.
Back in the day, Tara’s godmother was a well known florist in Covent Garden. For her 80th birthday celebrations, Tara asked me to make Isabel a fruit cake (with homemade almond paste) depicting the shop. Tara found an old black and white photo of the property which I did my best to copy. Tara also needed me to feature a pig in the design … a long standing family joke. So here it is. I hope your godmother recognises it Tara and that you all have a lovely day.
Little Robyn is 3 and her Gran asked me to make this victoria sponge layer cake covered in sea creatures for their family celebration.
Cakes on Sea 