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 [...]

I made this cake for Sinéad and Damien’s wedding in Galway.  They wanted a fairly simple design on their cake – just dark blue ribbon to match the bridesmaid’s dress, and flowers to match Sinéad’s bouquet.  Sinéad showed me pictures of the bouquet she had chosen, so I handmade ivory and white roses and tiny [...]

Diane ordered this cake for her niece Niamh’s second birthday.  Niamh loves visiting her grandparents on their farm, and absolutely adores her grandad’s red tractor!  So Diane thought it would be nice to have a little red tractor on a pink girly birthday cake.  I covered the cake in pink sugarpaste and decorated it with [...]

This cake was great fun to make… and for another repeat customer!   Tara ordered a Christening cake from me before, but this one was a 70th birthday cake for her mum in Newbridge.  Her mother has loads of diverse interests, so it was fun incorporating them onto a cake.  She is sports-mad, loves [...]

My next-door neighbour Sharon ordered this birthday cake.  Her 11-year-old son Ciarán and his aunt both share the same birthday and always celebrate jointly.  They were having a Hawaiian-themed party, and asked me to make a cake that would fit in with the theme.  I covered the cake in cream-coloured sugarpaste and added some golden [...]