Tiffany Cake

I came acorss this photo from cakes I made last year and realised I hadn't shared it with you. Tiffany & Co never tasted so good. Hope you enjoy and have a great weekend.

White Wedding Cake

A pretty white wedding cake I made for Lara and Michael. Underneath all that white is chocolate cake with dark chocolate ganache. Best wishes to you both for a bright and happy future.xx

Vintage Cupcakes

Some pretty vintage themed cupcakes I made for an engagement party and a birthday party high tea. Hope you enjoy.

The M & M Saga

Yes there was once a time I thought that was how the rap star Eminem spelt his name. In my middle aged naivety I often pondered why would you want to be named after a cute chocolate sweet, particularly when you make music with such edgy, urban lyrics . Of course my teenage boys quickly put me on the straight and narrow and well now days even names such as Kayne West just roll of the tongue, perfect pronunciation and spelling every time. Too easy.
Not that I want to give the wrong impression here that this is the music that my children currently listen to. They are such cool, hip funksters that I'm sure whatever sounds they're listening to at the moment they are on point.
What has this got to do with cake, nothing at all really. It's just that when I hear the phrase M & M I do still think in all my absurdity of THAT Rap Star.

So when we recently celebrated our eldest sons 17th birthday I had to come up with a cake. Having watched him over the summer holidays devour packet after packet after packet of M & M s I decided what greater gift can a cake decorator mum give than a giant M & M chocolate cake. Red of course because he is the cutest with just enough attitude.

Word of warning if you would like a cake like this. It does tend to assume a wee personality of it's own and took a while to be cut.
Enjoy the long weekend.
Tammy xx
P.S. I'm off to listen to some Rap { not }

Pretty Cake

Thought I would share a pretty cake I made for my sister-in-law Janet's birthday on the weekend. Two tier Chocolate with a mix of dark and milk chocolate ganache. With some pretty sugar roses on top. I must thank my friend Elena who is visiting from Italy as I put her to work and she stuck the little pearl balls on the bottom tier. My piping bag had some royal icing left over so later in the day I went back and added some piping detail on the top tier, message to self ' must do more piping work in future'

The best part about this cake was I got to go to the party and see the cake cut and have a piece. It was a fab  party by the way and one of the first times in quite a few years that nearly all the family was together. I say nearly because one nephew is still in the U.S. and one has just come back from the U.K. with a fiance. Imagine. Of course that means a wedding which in turn means wedding cake, Yay.

Any hooow, it was a lovely evening and I left with an enormous head after all the great compliments about the cake. So many thanks to everybody for a great night and I hope Janet you had a perfect birthday celebration.

 

Happy St Valentine's Day

Thought I would add a little romance to my blog. Some sugar cookies and flowers I made. Best wishes and happy days. xx

Welcome 2013

Well well all my ambitions for posting regular articles on my blog lie in tatters as we are already into the month of February and these are the first pictures of the year.
However all is not lost as I have been very productive over the break busily making lots of sugar flowers, trialling new looks for cake{think hand painted} and doing literally hours of strategic planning and laborious research...aka looking at cake pictures on the Internet. I know," you poor thing," I can hear you say but as is that old adage, someone has to do it and it may as well be me.
And well call me crazy but  I  have a sneaky suspicion a fair few of you are also doing lots of research and strategic planning too. Good for you. It will only make you appreciate the finer things in life.
So in no particular order some of the cakes I have been baking and decorating.

 Something very similar to a previous  hat box cake. 10" chocolate fudge

 Something to kick start Daniels 5th birthday

 Sweet 16 pretty and pink

 To help celebrate a wonderful couple's 50th wedding anniversary

 and a pretty birthday cake with sugar flowers.
I have lots of projects I'm working on at the moment and very soon will be delving into the world of posting some free tutorials, so see you soon.
Tammy x
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