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Listed are the posts for August 2011.

Busy bees hive

This cake was to celebrate the 21st birthday of Busy Bees Childcare in Stillorgan.  Their logo is a busy bee with BB on its shirt.  I stacked several different sizes of sponge cake into a hive shape and covered with yellow sugarpaste.   I then added brown shading with petal dust.  The little busy bee on [...]


Carl and Elaine’s wedding cake

This wedding cake was for my friends Carl and Elaine.  They wanted to be able to keep the cake topper after the wedding, so I handmade it from modelling clay, which will last forever.  Elaine sent me pictures of her wedding dress, and described what her bouquet would look like and what style of suit [...]


Buttons and bows Christening cake

I made this cute Christening cake for my twin niece and nephew, Aoibhinn and Conor.  The bottom tier was chocolate biscuit cake, and top tier was chocolate orange cake, filled with orange buttercream.  They are both covered in sugarpaste, which I sprayed with pearl lustre spray.  I made loads and loads of little buttons from [...]


1st birthday cake featuring Ogie

I made this birthday cake for my gorgeous niece, Mia.  She loves watching the Irish children’s tv show Hubble, and dances along to the music.  Sooo cute! I made a round cake, decorated to look like Ogie’s hubblecraft with plenty of bubbles around it.  I made a little Ogie figure sitting inside the hubblecraft.Â
The cake itself [...]


Football Jersey cake

Claire ordered this cake for Noel in Maynooth.  He’s a big supporter of Kildare football, so she thought a jersey cake would be ideal for his 30th Birthday party.  The cake was a 10-inch chocolate biscuit cake, carved into the shape of a football jersey.  I then covered it in white sugarpaste, and handpainted the [...]