Come Dine With Me Table Cake

The brief for my latest cake was 'Come Dine With Me' and it had to serve 6 people. I thought about a few ideas including making a cake with a tray of icing money on top but settled on the idea of a table cake that is set for 6 people. It was a little tricky working with such tiny objects for the first time but I am pleased with the result.The cake is vanilla sponge sandwiched with buttercream and raspberry jam, decorated with edible decorations (not the candle!).

Orange Tiny Terror Amp Cake

The second cake of the week was for my Dad and I decided to make him a replica of his Orange Tiny Terror Amp.

I didn't have a lot of time to do this cake and next time I would make it bigger so I could get all the detail of the amp on there however the end result wasn't too bad...



Teapot and Teacup Cake

This week I made a birthday cake for my friend Faye inspired by the teapot cake in Fiona Cairns' Birthday Cake Book.

I followed the great instructions but as I didn't have a sphere mould I improvised with two pudding bowls. I changed the white flowers to a cream and also added a matching teacup. I am so proud of this cake....



And Faye liked it too!

Stack of books cake

It was my sisters 21st birthdy this week and so I wanted to make her an amazing cake to celebrate. I had three ideas to start with; a teapot, a bird with bird house and a stack of books. I decided to go with the stack of books because she studies English Literature at university, loves to read and is currently writing a novel.
I asked her for the titles of her top 3 favourite books and the title of her own book and then set to work planning the cake.
To make the cakes looked good but also one cake wasn't one giant block I planned it so that it was one block of cake disguised as two books on top of another block of cakes, also two books.
I painted the covered board with colour paste to get a wood grain effect and then added the yellow post it note and stickers.
I was pleased with the end result (as was my sister) as I had never attempted a tiered cake before this one but I am a perfectionist so there will always be bits I could have improved.