I love love love this cake!  Siobhán and Derek from Lucan ordered it for their twins’ Christening.  I carved a bowl-shaped cake and a round cake into the shape of the bottom half of the boat, and a smaller square cake into the cabin part for the top.  All the little pairs of animals are [...]

This cake was for my lovely mother’s birthday.  She’s always got the kettle on for a cup of tea, so I thought a teapot birthday cake would be perfect for her!  I made the basic round shape from lemon sponge, filled with lemon buttercream, and covered with pale sugarpaste.  I handmade the spout and handle from [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]