Clare's Birthday Ice Creams

Just adding the pictures I didn't want to post before, of Claire's birthday Ice Cream Cakes:
Banana and Chocolate Chip cakes, with Chocolate Buttercream and coloured fondant icing ice cream cones. The Choclate Buttercream 'ice cream' has a real chocolate flake in it.

Baking Today

Just been busy baking for 2 birthdays: a 40th, and a slightly younger one (37, if you must know). 37 seemed a bit of an odd number to put on a cake, not so landmarky as 40, so the ever-popular lions are back (with ears this time!). The 37 year-old is a leo, you see.






I also made 2 batches of Banana and Chocolate Chip cakes with Chocolate buttercream icing. The first batch are here: 6 cakes for a housewarming present. The next batch I'll post later, they're for a friend's birthday, and I think she'd like to see them in real life before she sees them on the blog.

Cake Stall Busy Busy

Lots and lots of images of the cake stall (and prep work for it) this weekend:























60 large cakes, baked, iced and sold. 95 small cakes, baked, iced and mostly sold (had 12 left over, but was happy to bring them home for the family).
...All in 5 days!

Healthy Hips and Hearts

24 Brown Sugar Chocolate Cakes, iced with raspberry buttercream, for a 'Healthy Hips and Hearts' class (low-impact exercise for older people).
The teacher decided to tell her students that, "The raspberry is the healthy part, the heart is for the heart and the rest is for the hips!"

If you go down to the woods today...

...you might get RSI!

Phew! I've just finished 85 teeny tiny chocolate sponge cakes, decorated with green buttercream 'grass', a fondant icing bear and a little daisy.
I think I've got piping bag elbow: Hope the kids enjoy them tomorrow at the picnic.

Happy Birthday Rosa

I hope this colourful selection of 6 lions, 6 butterflies and 6 ants, brightens up Rosa's rainy birthday.
All the cakes are vanilla flavour and the butterflies are decorated with strawberry buttercream and edible glitter - just perfect for a 3rd birthday party.

Oops there goes another rubber tree plant!

Testing out my new 'grass' nozzle and making some peanut M&Ms ants, means that I've now got that Frank Sinatra song stuck in my head!

My hopes were high, and I think these turned out really nicely. The cakes underneath are meant to be violet flavour: I substituted the vanilla extract with violet syrup, but I don't think I used enough. They are nice, but in no way violety.

The last ant is of the leaf cutter variety. One of Danny's favourite animals: he blames them for any holes on the leaves in the garden.