Arthur and Louis are going paintballing this afternoon for their 11th birthday. Here is a chocolate fudge layer cake covered in chocolate buttercream and dripped with white chocolate ganache. hope you have a great time boys.

Margot’s birthday has come round again. This year she wanted her and her five best friends singing their hearts out around a microphone. All on top of a sticky chocolate fudge layer cake. her mum sent me photos of them all so that I could at least get them mildly recognisable! I know you had a sleepover with them all Margot, I hope the rest of your day was as much 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.

Grace is a fan of the Avatar films and asked me to make a cake for her 11th birthday. This is a chocolate fudge layer cake covered in midnight blue fondant and decorated to look a bit like the forests in the film. Her mum got hold of an avatar cut out and I made a sugar planet to back it up. I think the result was quite effective

For Sally’s big birthday she had a fabulous party at the yacht club this weekend. She loves chocolate and bright colours and gave me a list of her favourite chocolate bars and sweets that absolutely had to be on her yellow and pink cake. Inside are lemon sponges layered with fresh lemon curd and buttercream with a decadent dark chocolate ganache drip over coloured buttercream icing. I am so glad your celebration went off well Sally – I hope the cake helped.

Julie has organised a James Bond classic Aston Martin driving experience as a birthday treat for Bernie. He is a diabetic and doesn’t get to eat much cake usually, but Julie asked me to make this one to a low sugar recipe. The chocolate and beetroot cake is filled and topped with dark chocolate ganache. The car is all sugar though … don’t eat it all at once Bernie.
