Stripey hatbox cake

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I made this cake for my mother-in-law’s birthday.  I coloured some sugarpaste a lovely lilac colour, as it is her favourite colour.  I measured the circumference of the cake and then cut out strips of both white and lilac sugarpaste to fit evenly.  The cake is topped off with a lovely handmade bow made from modelling paste.  The original design is from Planet Cake.

The cake itself was a 7-inch chocolate sponge, filled with chocolate ganache and covered with chocolate ganache and sugarpaste.

Raa Raa the Noisy Lion

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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 had to watch a couple of episodes and ended up singing the theme tune in my head for about a month!!  I carved a square cake into the number “1″ and then made little Raa Raa and his cubby buggy with its watermelon wheels from modelling paste.

Below is a closeup of Raa Raa in his cubby buggy.

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Vintage Birdcage

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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 the correct shape and covered with sugarpaste.  Then I piped on the cage “bars” with royal icing and decorated it with birds and flowers.

Someone please order a cake like this from me, as I am dying to make it again ;)

Hearts and blossoms

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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 cake.  Beautiful!

This is a very versatile cake design – it would make a beautiful cake for an engagement, small wedding, anniversary or any love-themed celebration really!

Ribbons & swirls

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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 and decorated them with edible glitter.  The numbers “25″ are also made from flower paste, and painted with edible silver paint.  I piped the swirls and dots with royal icing and finished the cake with silver dragees down the sides.

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