OOOPPPS! I forgot I was making a Blog!!!

It's been 3 years since I posted - here's just a few of the cakes I've made in that time - more pics to follow when I've moved them from the memory disc to the pc . . .

Edible Icing Sheets

Hello there! Just thought I'd post a few more piccies of my cakes for you to look at! The following are all decorated with an icing sheet that has been printed with images using a printer that takes edible ink-filled cartridges - my new toy!

This is the cake that I made for my daughter, Amethyst and her best friend, Laura to celebrate their 9th birthday. They are born one day apart and always share their birthday party - hence the shared cake! However this year because Amethyst wanted me to use the edible inks printer to print an icing sheet to decorate her cake with and Laura liked the idea of a chocolate coated birthday cake, I combined the two ideas!

The cake was a regular sponge cake and I chocolate coated the sides (in 4 sections with a word iced in white chocolate first for each section - ( Happy - Birthday - Laura - Amethyst ) and then I covered the top of the cake with rolled out fondant and placed the icing sheet with their picture and message on top. Then with a quick piped edge of girlie-pink icing stars, the cake was complete! The girls were thrilled with it - and so was I!!!

This cake was a lot more tricky to do than Amethyst and Laura's because the collage of images of Johnny Depp and scenes from the Pirates of the Caribbean film took longer to assemble and merge.

I printed off two rectangular sheets with the collaged images and then trimmed one into a number one figure and the other into the number eight to cover the top of the sponge cakes which I had iced with fondant icing.

Juggling the images so that the circles cut out for the figure eight didn't lose too much of Captain Jack Sparrow was the trickiest part of doing this cake and assembling the images was quite time-consuming but I think you'd agree, the effect was quite stunning!!!

I know the girl who was celebrating her 18th was literally amazed by the result, especially as her party was a complete surprise to her - she thought she was going to her cousin Ben's 1st birthday party! (She was but it was also in her honour!) I did little Ben's birthday cake too but you'll have to wait until I do a post about the childrens' character celebratory cakes that I've done to see that one!

I'll be posting a photo tomorrow of the cake that a mum at my kids' school ordered today for her little boy who'll be six on Saturday - he's also Pirates of the Caribbean mad but his mum can't find a suitable cake in any shops so, ta-da! My printer will sort him a cake out, no problem!!! :-D

Truly Scrumptious Cakes!

Having bought a printer with edicle inks for printing onto icing sheets, and getting more orders all the time I decided to create this blog to showcase the cakes I make for friends and family! My hobby has grown over the years and become more and more creative - from the first cake I ever made and decorated aged 14 (22 years ago!) for my beautiful niece Helen, which was a bit of a disaster to the more elaborate wedding and other celebration cakes I now make! I hope you enjoy the pictures which may inspire you to have a go at this truly scrumptious and rewarding pastime!

This is the cake I made for my friends, Kate & Paul's wedding which I'm really proud of! The biggest tier was fruit cake, the middle madeira sponge and the little top one, scrummy chocolate cake!!! My nerves were shot after making it as it was my first attempt at such a mammoth wedding cake (the first one being much smaller and alot less fancy!) and I really, really did want it to be spectacular for them both!

This was my first attempt at an all-chocolate celebration cake for a wedding which was to celebrate my niece's friend Myra's special day and another nerve wracking but highly enjoyable cake decorating experience! The edges are made from melted chocolate which you wrap the cake with until set and the glossy coating is a ganache (double cream and chocolate combined) mixture - so scrummy!!! Even the roses on the top of the cake are made from chocolate!

I hope you have enjoyed the pictures I've posted so far and I'm looking forward to sorting through my cake piccies and blogging them soon, but that's all for now folks!