Ladybird and bumblebee cupcakes

I was able to decorate these cupcakes at work today as part of our demo day. I used Mich Turner's Cake Masterclass book to create the cute ladybirds and bumblebees and added them to the grass buttercream cupcakes.

Fishing cake

This is my most recent request for a man's 80th birthday. He enjoys fishing and so his daughter asked for this design on the cake...
I thought the icing would look good with the marble effect to represent the water. I used pearl dust to make the fish sparkle and added reeds/weeds to make it look more like a lake river.

School Fayre Cupcakes

My little sister and I made these for her school fayre... simple vanilla cupcakes that spell out the name of her school!

Yoga Cake

I made this cake for my step mum's birthday celebrations. I was a bit nervous about creating her in icing as I haven't had much practice making figures but I think it turned out ok.
The cake is the usual vanilla sponge with edible decoration...

Jubilee cupcakes

Obviously I couldn't let the jubilee pass without making some sort of cake to celebrate it! I decided to go with cupcakes rather than a big celebration cake and this is what happened...
Lemon cupcakes with lemon curd centre and sugarpaste decoration.

Suitcase cake

I made this cake for a friend who is away from home working in America this summer. Her favourite colour is green and she loves knitting, she has also been to a number of places around the world so I used all of this information to create her suitcase.
The cake is a simple vanilla sponge with jam and buttercream (as usual) and the decoration is all edible, yes even the luggage label!

Trombone Cake

The most recent cake request I have had was to make a 11th birthday cake for a boy who plays the trombone. I wasn't sure what to do at first, as this wasn't going to be an easy cake whatever I chose to do. Having looked online at other music themed cakes I still wasn't overly inspired as they all seemed a bit boring, mostly white cakes with black musical notes.
That's when I came up with the idea of a dark blue 2 tiered cake, white wrap, golden trombone and silver stars to add some sparkle. This is the finished result...

Sadly on it's journey to my mum's house the trombone decided to fall apart! I had really struggled to make the trombone as it was too heavy to support itself. However disaster was averted before the cake was picked up as I had chance to remake the trombone, which I am pleased to report survived it's journey and then another journey to the seaside!!