Posts tagged 40

Drum cake

My friend Dan asked me to make this cake.  It was his friend Stuart’s 40th birthday so he thought a custom-made cake would be an ideal present!  Stuart is a musician and plays a few instruments, including drums, so he wanted a replica drum cake.  I kept a few photos of Phidrums drums beside me [...]


Rickenbacker guitar cake

Frances ordered this birthday cake for her husband Dermot’s 40th birthday.  They were coming up from Cork to have a birthday dinner for him in Leixlip – and little did he know he’d be getting a Rickenbacker guitar cake for his birthday!  I carved the body of the guitar from chocolate fudge cake filled with [...]


Sophie’s lacy birthday cake

I made this cake for a very dear friend of mine, Sophie.  I made a lemon sponge and filled it with lemon buttercream.   I then covered the cake in jade-coloured sugarpaste.  The lace was made using sugarveil icing, and is completely edible.  It was my first time to try out sugarveil, and I love it… [...]