Wedding Rehearsal

Some test cakes for Claire, who might want to have some Hello There Cupcakes at her wedding, in September.
She sent me some images that she liked, but they are quite different to the cakes I normally make, hence these test ones.

I don't normally post photos until the cakes are delivered to the customer, but I imagine that if these get made, they will have evolved by the time they're delivered, so I don't think I'm spoiling anyone's surprise.

Claire said that her bridesmaids would be wearing blue, and the photo she sent me had blue and white cakes. So the colour scheme I went for is dark/light blue, white and silver.

The buttercream is quite yellow in these photos, this is because I used real butter. If I was making them for real and the colour theme remained, then I would use vegetable fat to make the icing pure white.

I hope she likes them! Looking forward to hearing her feedback...


These were a copy of the cakes Claire had liked. But I don't have the nice flowers that were on the original (and don't have the skills for sugarcraft flowers), so the small shop-made ones are standing in for now.


My least favourite ones. Maybe because the colours aren't so punchy?


Blue fondant icing flowers with silver ball.


The bride and groom's initials are stamped into fondant icing.


Butterflies.


Plain roses and ones decorated with silver balls.

'Enchanted Garden' Christening Cakes

Claire ordered 48 cakes in an 'Enchanted Garden' theme for her daughter's Christening. We played around with lots of design ideas before we settled on fairies, butterflies, dragonflies and daisies, in a white, brown, pink and mint green colour theme.

I made 24 chocolate cakes and 12 each of vanilla and strawberry cakes and then iced them with chocolate, vanilla and strawberry buttercream.

Claire also asked for "lots of (edible) glitter" - so that's what she got!


12 cakes were iced with vanilla buttercream.


12 cakes were iced with strawberry buttercream.


12 cakes were iced with chocolate buttercream.


and 12 cakes were iced with vanilla buttercream, that was coloured and piped into grass.


Enchanted garden with toadstool.


Daisies.


Butterflies.



Dragonflies.




Fairies.
I can take no credit for the design of these- I copied an online tutorial that I found here.
...I'm not sure how I would have done them, had I not found that tutorial!


A bit heavy-handed with the rouge, perhaps!

Martha's 4th Birthday

Since there were lots of boys and girls were going to Martha's 4th birthday party, her mum, Claire, didn't want to have an overly girly theme.
It was fun to get all the bright colours out and make some really vibrant cake decorations. I know Martha likes Hello Kitty, so I couldn't resist doing a couple of Kitty faces for her too.

Chocolate cakes with chocolate buttercream and fondant icing decorations.


I don't normally take photos of the cakes before they're baked, but I just thought they looked so cheerful in their colourful jackets, waiting to go into the oven.


The finished decorations, in the right order.


And the finished, iced and decorated cakes, though not quite in the right order :-)


Kitties, flowers, butterflies, hearts, stars... these are a few of my favourite things.


...all adding up to a sea of colour.


Side view.


Boxed up and ready to go to the party!