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Listed are the posts for February 2011.

Trish’s shoe and shoebox cake

I made this cake for the beautiful and lovely Trish.  Apparently I’m not allowed to tell you whether the “40″ on the shoe is her age or her shoe size!! Hahaha… Anyway, the shoebox is a chocolate sponge, filled with lime buttercream and covered with lime buttercream and chocolate sugarpaste.  The shoe is handmade from [...]


Makeup bag cake for Gemma

This birthday cake was for my brother’s girlfriend, the lovely Gemma.  I made her a handbag last year, so this year she got the matching makeup bag!  I carved a chocolate sponge cake into the shape of a makeup bag and covered it with pink sugarpaste.  I then decorated it with a quilted pattern and green [...]


Limetree Café cake

Friends of ours, Frank and Gerardette, have just opened a new café in Kilmainham.  Check it out at www.limetreecafe.net  I made this cake for their launch party.  I piped the café logo on to the cake, and it was a huge hit at the party.
The cake itself is an 8-inch lime-flavoured sponge filled with lime [...]


Scary dragon birthday cake

This birthday cake was ordered for 6-year-old William by his mum, Lindis, in Dundalk.  William absolutely loves dragons, and was having a birthday party attended by his whole class in school.  She asked me to make a scary dragon, as opposed to a cute one, so I handmade this sugarpaste dragon perched on sugarpaste rocks and [...]