Archive

Listed are the posts for September 2011.

Raa Raa the Noisy Lion

Karen in Lucan ordered this cake for her son Tom’s first birthday.  I had made Tom’s Christening cake and his older sister Amelia’s birthday cake too – it’s lovely to have repeat customers!
Little Tom loves watching Raa Raa the Noisy Lion on CBeebies.  In order to be able to make the little model correctly, I [...]


Vintage Birdcage

I made this cake at a class taught by the wonderful Gráinne MacClancy of www.acakeforyou.ie.  I absolutely adore this cake – I think it would be a fantastic cake for an intimate wedding, or for a very special birthday.  It was 3 small cakes (6″ and 7″) stacked on top of each other, carved into [...]


Hearts and blossoms

I made this cake for my friend’s parents on their wedding anniversary.   It’s quite a simple cake, but very effective, I think.  I filled a heart-shaped chocolate sponge cake with chocolate ganache, and then covered it with chocolate ganache and sugarpaste.  I handmade some sugar hydrangea blossoms and scattered them over the top of the [...]


Ribbons & swirls

Patrick from Leixlip ordered this cake.  He and his wife were having a 25th Wedding Anniversary party.  It was quite a large cake – a 12″ fruit cake bottom tier and an 8″ fruit cake top tier.  I covered both tiers in marzipan and ivory sugarpaste.  I made the ribbons on top from flower paste [...]