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!