Butterflies and Babies.

This is my most recent cake i have just finished, a pink butterfly cake for a little girls 6th birthday.

Also to accompany the cake were 20 cupcakes with light pink, dark pink and lilac icing butterflies on top.

Yesterday i also made some baby cupcakes for someone who is expecting a little boy.....these little cuties are guaranteed to get a smile. 3 cupcakes were decorated to look like little baby boy faces and 3 were decorated with a piped swirl of buttercream and small baby feet.


Below the baby themed cupcakes are shown in one of my new cupcake boxes. Although these boxes are not very cost effective (in my opinion) i love them all the same.

Baking overdrive.

Don't you just love that feeling when you go into baking overdrive.....i do.

Well at the weekend it was my husbands birthday and as he is a Guinness lover, what better cake to make him than a scrummy totally yummy Guinness chocolate cake. This cake by the way has to be the most moist and delicious cake i have ever tasted in my life........no honest....really it was!

and you know that you can't have chocolate Guinness cake without Guinness chocolate cupcakes to accompany it. These were also extremely moist and as with the cake even the buttercream had some Guinness in it.


As it was bank holiday weekend, the nice weather brought about a family get together and of course a BBQ. I was on dessert duty so i decided to make a selection......first i made a summer berry cheesecake, some home made jam tarts for the kids, about 30+ cupcakes (some were just plain and some had a lemon topping) and lastly i made some Belgium chocolate tarts. These were not just any Belgium chocolate tarts but were topped with chocolate curls and i also made some white chocolate cherubs to go on top of the chocolate tarts, which finished them off perfectly.

Need to catch up.

Wow!!! I didn't realise that it had been so long since i last updated my blog.....the months have just seemed to roll on by. So here are the cakes/cupcakes and whatever else has been keeping me occupied for the last few months, bringing me up to date with 2010.

Below is a cake i made for Christmas. It was a rich fruit cake, covered with marzipan, fondant and royal icing. There was also a surprise with this cake as the post box was a chocolate mini roll and the snowman was shaped around lindor chocolates.

These are some Christmas themed cupcakes that i made for my children to give out to their friends at school. I think i made around 80 of these and they were very time consuming but lots of fun to make. They were a huge hit with everyone.

I made the Cupcakes below for my Mums birthday, she loved them.

This cake was made for a little girl who loves horses on her 6th birthday.

I think out of all the cakes i have made this was my overall favourite. This cake was made to be auctioned off at a Children in Need fundraising event. The cupcakes were also sold at the same event and all of the proceeds went to children in Need.

Cookie Monster and Elmo cupcakes....what more can i say?

Bonfire Night.

This is the cake and cupcakes i made for Bonfire Night.

My latest creations

I had seen a few of these babies on the internet and just had to have a go at making one myself. It is made out of sugarpaste, making it totally edible (not that i could ever bring myself to eat one). Here the baby is pictured on my hand so you can see the size of it. The baby measures around 2" long.

This cake was so much fun to do. It is a welcome home B-boy themed cake for someone who had been working away for 6 months and his girlfriend wanted something special for him when he arrived home.


This was a farm themed cake for my father-in-law who loves to play farm town.

The following pictures are close ups of the cupcakes. These took a long long time to make but were definitely worth the effort.

Latest cakes.

These are the latest cakes i have made.

Thomas the Tank engine cake was made for a little boys 3rd birthday. He is a huge Thomas fan.


This rubber ducks in a bathtub cake was made for a boys 18th birthday. The birthday boy was big on collecting rubber ducks, however on this occassion the ducks were made from fondant.

Lastly a number 1 cake for a little boys 1st birthday, i really enjoyed making this one. The baby and the bear were also made out of fondant.

I also made some cupcakes to match the cake.