Teresas mum is 90. She wanted a special cake decorated as a vegetable garden. Just one snag, her mum doesn’t like icing. So we left one corner of this lemon cake uniced, put some biscuit crumb gravel in the top and made a sugar garden shed to cover it up. Hey presto. The rest has chocolate soil and little sugar vegetables. Hope we’ve kept everyone happy!
Libby has had cakes from me in the past and this time asked me for a lemon cake decorated with bright sugar gerberas for her daughter’s birthday. When I delivered it she admitted that she was going to share it as it is her birthday too
Happy birthday to you both
Gwen had her super-milestone birthday coming up and Chris asked if I could make a cake for her mum to share with her family as well as some matching cupcakes that she could distribute among her friends. Chris had seen a cake on this Facebook page that she liked the style of and asked for similar decorations on a jam and vanilla sponge. So here we are. Very many congratulations Gwen and many happy returns.
Ann’s mum’s favourite flowers are freesias so what better than a spray of sugar freesias on her lemon layer birthday cake. This 10″ sponge filled with fresh lemon curd and finished with a pretty pale green sugar ribbon and piping was more than enough to feed 25 people. Hope you weekend went well everyone.
Jason asked me to make a cake for his mum’s 70th birthday. He found a picture of a design he liked, sent it to me and we based the cake on that changing the colours and flowers to suit. His mum loves pink lilies so this jam and buttercream layered Victoria sponge was iced in white and then covered in pretty pink flowers and a little bit of sparkle.
Carol had a surprise party just before Christmas. Her family gathered all her friends together for a wonderful celebration of her big birthday. Carol loves her garden and is a keen bird watcher so I made this two-tiered cake in lemon sponge with fresh lemon curd filling for her to share with all the guests. The bird box is all cake and the little blue tit is made of sugar. Wishing you very many happy returns Carol.
Sarah and Steve sing in the same choir as me. They celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary last weekend with friends and family from all over the world. Sarah wanted a lemon and white chocolate sponge big enough to feed everyone and decorated with the yellow roses and freesias that she carried in her bouquet 40 years ago. I also made a few gluten free lemon and white chocolate cup cakes for those that preferred them. Very many congratulations to you both.
I made a birthday cake for Amy’s mum a couple of years ago and she contacted me again to ask for a golden wedding cake for their important family celebration. This is a layered vanilla sponge with jam and buttercream filling, topped with gold and white blossoms and gold script. She picked the cake up on the way to the family celebration. Hope you all had fun and that the cake went down well.
Rachel’s daughter Emma turned 50 last weekend and a cake was needed. My remit was something simple and pretty with flowers, her name, and the number 50. This is what we came up with – underneath is a jam and buttercream filled sponge.
David contacted me a few weeks ago as his family were congregating in Milford for a holiday by the sea to celebrate his wife’s birthday. He had seen a cake a bit like this one on my cakesonsea.com website and asked if I could do one for him. I delivered it to their holiday house on a beautiful sunny day, I hope you all had a lovely time.
Cakes on Sea 