Ciara from Newcastle, Co. Dublin, ordered this cake for her daughter Farrah’s Christening. I covered the cake in pale pink sugarpaste and handmade a little pair of pink Mary Jane baby shoes.  I bought the template for these shoes from Jo Ranson in the UK - she is raising money for Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital [...]

I made this cake for my friend Geraldine’s birthday.  This large cupcake measures approximately 7 x 7 inches, and fed 12 of us on the night, with some left over.  So you would probably get up to 15 servings out of it.  I covered it with chocolate sugarpaste on the bottom, and lilac-coloured sugarpaste on top.  [...]

Pat ordered 2 dozen cupcakes for his son’s Christening.  He didn’t want to go down the traditional cake route, so thought cupcakes were a better idea.  I made a dozen vanilla and a dozen chocolate cupcakes, and topped them all with vanilla buttercream.  Half were blue and half were white.  I also handmade baby bibs, [...]

This was my first Communion cake to make this year, and I thought adding a pretty little ballerina on top would make it very girlie.  Although all my handcrafted figurines are usually edible, this little girl does have a ribbon skirt so you wouldn’t want to be eating that
She’s sitting pretty on top [...]

Ciara ordered this cake for her grandmother’s 80th birthday party.  Apparently she loves to be treated like a queen, so I handmade a sugar figurine of her sitting on a throne on top of the cake.  She does have a cocktail stick helping her to stay upright, but apart from that everything else is edible.  [...]