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Listed are the posts for July 2010.

Priest’s 50th Jubilee Cake

This was the second cake ordered by Aoife  – this time for her uncle’s 50th Jubilee.  He is a priest, based in South Africa, so she wanted me to depict that on the cake.  It was important to have a little map of South Africa, with Durban marked on it, as that is where he [...]


Ruby Wedding Anniversary cake for a gardener and a bridge player

This cake was ordered by Aoife for her parents’ 40th Wedding Anniversary.  She wanted little figurines of them depicting their hobbies and interests.  Her mum is a retired teacher, who loves playing bridge.  So I made some tiny little sugarpaste English, Irish, and Maths books  to put on the cake behind her, and some playing [...]


Chanel handbag cake

This pretty pink handbag cake was ordered by a lady named Diane for her 30th birthday party in Monasterevin.  The cake itself is chocolate sponge, filled with strawberry jam and vanilla buttercream.  It was covered in a thin layer of buttercream  and  in light pink sugarpaste icing.  I then did made all the seams, zip and stitching to [...]


Wedding Cake Topper

I made this cute little bride and groom as a wedding cake topper.  The bride’s mother made the cake, but she was looking for something a bit different to put on top of it.  Sorcha (the bride) sent me on photos of the dress, the groom’s suit and described the wedding bouquet, hairstyles, and all the [...]


1st Birthday daisy cake

This cake was for a little girl called Amelia, from Lucan, for her first birthday.  Her mum just wanted a pretty simple design, with pink and lilac daisies scattered around.  I also put a pretty pink ribbon around the cake board, and a lovely edible pearly finish on the cake.
The cake itself was a 9-inch [...]


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