Category: Anniversary

Champagne bottle in a box cake

Karina ordered this cake for her mother Fran’s 70th birthday.  She wanted a really special cake as they were having a big party to celebrate.  So what better way to celebrate than with a bottle of champagne?  I made a couple of 12″ sponges, and stacked and carved them into a rectangular box shape.  I [...]


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 [...]