I made this cake for Sinéad and Damien’s wedding in Galway.  They wanted a fairly simple design on their cake – just dark blue ribbon to match the bridesmaid’s dress, and flowers to match Sinéad’s bouquet.  Sinéad showed me pictures of the bouquet she had chosen, so I handmade ivory and white roses and tiny [...]

Suzanne ordered this cake for her husband Glen’s 40th birthday.  He really loves cooking, and is always pottering around in the kitchen.  Their two little red-haired boys love to help!  I handmade little figurines of Glen, and the two little boys and put them sitting on the cake, on a check-patterned sugar blanket.  I put a [...]

Sinéad from Oral-B in Newbridge ordered this cake from me.  One of the managers, Mark, was leaving the Newbridge plant so they got him a farewell cake.  I covered the cake in white sugarpaste, and handpiped the writing on to it.  I also made the distinctive blue and white Oral-B logo, along with a little [...]

Diane ordered this cake for her niece Niamh’s second birthday.  Niamh loves visiting her grandparents on their farm, and absolutely adores her grandad’s red tractor!  So Diane thought it would be nice to have a little red tractor on a pink girly birthday cake.  I covered the cake in pink sugarpaste and decorated it with [...]

These two rocket cakes were great fun to make. They were for two brothers, aged 2 and 4. I made them from chocolate biscuit cake and covered them with sugarpaste. The flames on the boards were also sugarpaste. The rockets were actually quite big – about 14 inches high. [...]