15 assorted rich fruit cakes for the New Milton Christmas market. Sold the lot! Thank you everyone.
Baking for Christmas
Two tier ‘frozen’ birthday cake
Double trouble. Three year old twins needed chocolate cake and ‘Frozen’ decorations. Mum had the requisite figurines and candles so I just made the cake in the obligatory ice blue and white with some snowflakes and a bit of sparkle and hey presto.
Az’s wedding cake
You may remember I met Az on a damp spring day to discuss the cake for her forthcoming wedding in Beaulieu.
Well, it worked out well and the sun shone on a beautiful wedding in between two days of torrential rain. Congratulations Az and Paul, all the very best for the future.
Az’s parents wrote me a lovely note afterwards
Another Betty who turned 90 this summer!
What a co-incidence. Two 90th birthday cakes for ladies both called Betty inside 3 months! This lovely Betty contacted me as her family were holding a birthday party for her in her garden to celebrate. She wanted a ‘proper’ rich fruit cake with home made marzipan, decorated in her favourite yellow and purple freesias. When I visited her to deliver the cake, she had finished gardening ready for her visitors.
Simple wedding cake for a garden party
Debbie’s mum organised a party to celebrate her daughter’s recent marriage with all her friends. This was a simple plain sponge with a jam filling, piped in Debbie’s favourite colour.
90th Birthday Cake
The ladies at Brokenhurst Manor Golf Club held a tea party for Betty’s big day. Traditional fruit cake with delicate pink roses. Rita was kind enough to write: ‘The tea party went well today and we had a lot of compliments on the cake, it was fabulous. Thank you so much for making it’.
Frozen cake for Freya
Freya wanted a Frozen cake for her fourth birthday party. When asked what she wanted on it she reeled off ‘ Elsa and Anna and Kristoff and Olaf and Hans and Sven!’ The only way to get all the characters on one cake was to use an edible print surrounded by sugar snowflakes… as long as you meet the brief!
85th birthday cake for an amateur artist
Just finished this cake requested by a lovely lady who wanted to treat her special friend for his 85th birthday.
The cake is a rich fruit cake with marzipan and white icing decorated to reflect his interests and hobbies. Pat was keen that the cake was not too garish so we stuck to muted colours to make a sugar artist’s palate and brushes as Roy is a talented oil painter. His career as an accountant is hinted at with the band of £ signs interspersed with little birds as a nod to his interest in ornithology. Being a fruit cake it will last for ages so he can enjoy it for weeks to come if there is any left after his party.
New Wedding Cake Commission
This week, I met with the lovely Az in the tea rooms close to her wedding venue in Beaulieu to discuss the details of her wedding cake over a cuppa.
The wedding is in July and the groom is a gardener so they have a strong theme of living plants and flowers for their day. Az is going to carry an informal bouquet of pastel lilac, cream and white flowers and green foliage which she would like reflected in her cake.
She has chosen a stacked three tiered cake in chocolate, lemon and traditional fruit cake on the top (specially for her mum), which will be iced in ivory and scattered with blossoms to match the flowers in her bouquet.
Az particularly wanted two birds on the top and after an on the spot internet search we found our inspiration. I will make a simple sugar tree with two little birds in the branches and the bride and groom’s initials scratched on the trunk.
Really looking forward to getting started. I’ll post pictures of the final product in July…
Show-stopper 80th birthday cake
This cake was made for the 80th birthday of a lady who threw a big party for all her friends. She has spent much of her life raising money for hospices, she continues to play golf weekly and is a demon bridge player. All these activities were symbolised by the sugar decorations on the cake.
Cakes on Sea 