Lara from Carragh ordered this cake for her daughter Willow’s Christening.  I  had made a different version of it for my niece and nephew’s Christening, so this is an all-pink version!  The top tier is a 6″ chocolate sponge and the bottom tier is an 8″ chocolate biscuit cake.  I made hundreds of little buttons [...]

Eoin ordered this cake for his niece Saoirse’s Christening.  He left the design up to me, so I decided to use a pale pink and pale green theme on a white background.  I cut out some pink and green flowers, and made little edible buttons for the centres.  A cute little pink and green owl [...]

Pamela from Lucan ordered this cake for her son Harry’s Christening.  She wanted a little model of Harry on top of the cake, and as his dad is a pilot, the cake was to have a pilot theme.  I handmade the baby and pilot’s hat for the topper, which can be kept afterwards, and also [...]

This is a variation of a cake I previously made.  Majella ordered this cake for her son Orán’s Christening.  I made a 6″ chocolate sponge and an  8″ vanilla sponge and filled them with buttercream.  I covered the cakes in pale green and pale yellow sugarpaste and dowelled and stacked them on top of each [...]

Lianne from Maynooth ordered this cake for her daughter Aoife’s Christening.  She left the design completely up to me, and just asked for a girlie design that wasn’t only pink and white.  As I had recently learned how to make a little tatty teddy model from Carol McHugh at the Dublin Sugarcraft Guild, I thought [...]