Ian is a keen road cyclist and celebrated his 80th birthday with his family. To add to the fun, Penny asked me to make him a cake for them all to enjoy featuring his beloved blue bike. So here is the lemon layer cake, decorated to fit the occasion.
Emma’s Dad Tony loves a game of scrabble and is a keen lawn bowler. For his 80th birthday celebrations Emma asked me to combine the two on top of a classic Victoria sponge layer cake. Here is a (rough) representation of Tony in his match kit, alongside a scrabble grid with all his names on it. Hope you all had a lovely time
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.
Hazel and her family gathered in Milford to celebrate her mums birthday. She showed me some pictures of beach themed cakes and this was the result. Underneath the icing is a three layered carrot cake with traditional cream cheese frosting between. Hope you all had fun
Martin’s favourite cake is a Black Forest gateau and his favourite thing to do is play golf. So for his 80th birthday lunch Sue asked me to make a proper squishy gateau with chocolate ganache, cherries and cream, on top of which I made a sugar 80 shaped like a tiny golf course. I hope it ticked all the boxes Martin.
Casey contacted me again for Orans birthday cake. A vanilla sponge filled with jam and piped in buttercream. Plenty of cake here to feed a football team
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.
Theo is 7 and was having an archery themed party this year. His mum asked for a chocolate layer cake with an archery target on the top with as many organic ingredients as possible. A nice easy one.. once we had made the arrows..
Fearn was 7 this weekend and was off to celebrate with a climbing party. Her grandparents have asked me to make her cake every year for a while now so here is Fearn climbing up two tiers of strawberry and buttercream filled sponge cake. Hope you had a great party
Martin has a vintage American Jeep which is his pride and joy. Moira asked if I could (sort of) recreate it in jammy victoria sponge cake for his 70th birthday. The essential distinguishing detail was the American flag on the bonnet which I think at least made it vaguely recognisable! Happy Birthday Martin
Cakes on Sea 