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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Merry Christmas

 

 

My best wishes to you and your families over the holiday season.

 

May you have a blessed Christmas and happy holidays.  Thank you for stopping by throughout the year to see what I have been baking and decorating.  Kind wishes to my loyal clients, it has been a privilege.  See you next year for lots of fun and exciting projects.

 

Buon Natale

 

Tammy xxx

I Love Cake

Last cake of the year. A love heart shaped beauty for a couple getting engaged.

Matching cupcakes to accompany. This was a lot of fun to make. I baked a tall 7" round cake made a heart template and cut out the cake and here you have it a love heart chocolate cake with a banner across. All edible. Sadly I haven't got a picture of the cupcake tower they were made for, but they looked pretty and pastel.

Fa La La La La La ...

Let me introduce you to the Iacomella Family Christmas Cake. You are so organised I hear you say.

Well, yes seems that I am this year, says me smugly, sitting here tapping away sipping my strawberry tea. Ha Ha .Right at this moment you should be laughing. Laughing long and hard  because sadly I'm never usually so prepared. The reason why is because this was the cake I made to demonstrate to my students how to cover a fruit cake 101. So when classes were over I just decorated it to my taste. No snowmen, penguins, snowflakes etc this year because sadly we are not having a skiing holiday, but a beach holiday. Since magnolia's are my newest favourite flower,I made a big one front and centre for the cake and couldn't resist some holly berries and pine cones to keep it a bit festive. What do you think?

I thought it would make a pretty nice wedding cake if you were having a Christmas wedding. The cakes are 7" base and 5"top tier.

Well I hope you will all enjoy some rich fruit Christmas Cake this year and just to keep things real I actually baked last years cake on Christmas Eve. { Thank you Nigella. Chocolate Fruit Cake } and it was equally yummy.
Have a good week. Thanks for stopping by. xx

Baby's Naming Day Cake

Welcome sweet Alexander Noah. This two tier chocolate cake will be part of celebrations for dear little Alexander. Congrats. to the proud parents Ute and Adam.

The little edible sugar shoes are made out of fondant { tutorial available on Cake Central }look super cute and are super easy to make.

Best wishes to all. xxx