Crafted Cakes bakes for Charlie-Leigh's 9th Birthday Party

The brief:
Guests: 50 approx
Birthday girl likes: The colour red and playing football

My Idea:
48 cupcakes displayed on a tower
1 giant cupcake to put candles in and cut

Decoration Ideas:
Red and white giant cupcake with star decoration
Football themed cupcakes

A simple sponge cake with a jam filling covered with sugarpaste decorations. The white stars and the base of the giant cupcake have pearlescent dust on them to make the cake sparkle. The letters are made using alphabet cutters and the cake is topped with a wooden "9" decoration.

The cupcakes are a simple chocolate sponge (to look like the ground under the grass) and the grass is coloured and piped vanilla buttercream. The cupcakes are in football themed wrappers and are decorated with a foil wrapped chocolate football and flag on a cocktail stick. The cupcakes were then placed on a cardboard tower.

Crafted Cakes

Hand crafted cakes made using high quality ingredients; fair trade sugar, free range eggs and organic flour, in the Leicestershire area.

• Cupcakes (small or large quantities)
• Special occasion cakes (birthdays, anniversaries, christenings, weddings, Christmas etc)
• Novelty Cakes (great for any age but especially children)

For any enquiries or orders please do not hesitate to contact me via email and in the message please state your name and number so I can call you back for a chat.
abbieparsons@hotmail.co.uk

BA (hons) Textile Crafts Degree Show

I graduated from university last year but a number of my friends were still studying so when it came to visiting their degree show I made my friend Claire a cake to say well done for working so hard.I wanted to make something that reflected her degree work and as she specialises in knit I created a simple sponge cake covered in mint green sugarpaste and topped with a ball of yarn and knitting needles. The needles were the labelled with the size of the needles she had been using and the ball of yarn was as near to the same colour as her final pieces.
I covered the cake as usual and then created the additional decorations for the top. The needles have flower wires running through to keep them upright, they were then covered with grey sugarpaste and topped with yellow. On the yellow part I used food colouring gel to paint the needle size.
The ball of yarn was created using a ball of scrunched up foil and then extruding sugarpaste mixed with Trex through a device much like a Playdough barber shop toy to form the spaghetti like strands.
I also used the spaghetti strands to spell "Sample 11" on the cake which is the name of the 2011 Textile Crafts Catalogue.