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So Ewan requested a pirate theme party, along with a pirate ship cake.......and accommodate his playmobil pirates. This cake had been planned a good few months in advance and there was a lot of cake involved.The sails which were made ahead of time were made from fondant, the crows nest was a carved out ice cream cone. After several cones and attempts at poking a hole through the bottom to allow

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I was asked to do this cake by a mum at Ewan's school for her eldest daughter Jayna.I wanted to do something a little bit different and modern. The cake was made up from a 2 tier yellow cake with chocolate & vanilla buttercream frosting. Two 9 inch cakes stacked, and one 6 inch cake on top. The Palm tree, rocks and zebra stripes are all edible and made from fondant. The palm tree trunk is an Oreo

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My eldest son just graduated from his preschool , so i made his teachers a British Afternoon Tea gift baskets, containing, homemade scones, European strawberry preserve, cups and saucers and a tea-towel! Cheers!I just bought some mason jars and fruit pectin in the hope that i will attempt to make my own jam preserves, then I can use them in my cake fillings. and thus no preservatives, fruit

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So Ryan wanted a Thomas birthday cake for his 3rd birthday. To make the cake i found a tutorial onthe internet which i base most the cake on, but also used serval othe references since no Thomas toy is th esame, I had to use what toys i had in the house. And being an Architect i also had to try and get it to scale the best i could! I mouled this cake by hand from a 12x18 inch 1.2 sheet pan. This

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So things have been fairly quiet on the cake making front, however whilst on my annual trip home to the UK I did make a fondant cake topper for my best friends's husbands party. Alas i wa snot able to make the cake since I would be getting back from a short trip to London with hubby, so i suggested i did this instead! The theme taken from the invite was of my friends husband in the John Travola

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So this is my first attempt at a tiered cake, as well as my first attempt at homemade MM fondant, made in honor of my British friend here for her 40th birthday celebration.......The cake consisted of a 8 inch round bottom layer made of chocolate cake filled with a layer of white chocolate ganache, fresh strawberries and raspberries, and topped with raspberry buttercream frosting. The second layer

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Here is the results of the mini christmas cakes I made for Ewan's teachers at school. The fruit cakes were started in November (later than i should have) using a great recipe from a british cake decorator book by Mary Clee Cladman. I used 5.25 inch round mini springform cake pans. The cakes were topped up almost weekly/fortnightly with brandy until the final layers of apricot glaze, home made

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So I finally did the lighting McQueen cake., and the red and black turned out well! It took me hours of colour mixing and piping, as well as a problem with the McQueen pan (i hate those pans) everything always sticks. Tip lots and lots of shortening! YUK! Anyway, after a second attempt of the cake, it turned out well!The final cake was chocolate, with buttercream frosting. The car shape sat on

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Here is the cake I just made for my friend Sarab, who's had a bit of a bad pregnacy and only just alsmost human again. So I wanted to treat her and make here the best chocolate i have made so far! She is also an ugg boot fanatic (she has at least 4 pairs) so I decided to make an ugg boot out of fondant and gumpaste. The Ugg boot turned out well and was also the perfect size to be a candle

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And for my own pre trick or treat dinner I made more lemon and coconut cupcakes (yum) as well as halloween sugar cookies and decorated them in royal icing.

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I offered to make 24 cupcakes for Ewan's Halloween party at school. Life is so much easier with my kitchen aid mixer........I decided I wanted the cupcakes to be special, even though 4 year old would probabky devour them in one bite! So I did my first attempt of using the candy melt method after being inspired by the book Little Cakes from The Whimsical Bakehouse http://www.amazon.com/

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I was asked by my neighbour to make a cake for her work colleague's birthday, nothing fancy just lots of chocolate! So that is exactly what i did, with chocalate raspberry frosting and with some chocolate buttercream roses thrown in for good measure.My neighbour has also asked me to do her son's 3rd birthday cake (Disney cars theme) so looking forward to that at the end of the month and coming up

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Despite being exhaused after my efforts with Austin's cake, his mum, AKA one of my best/oldest friends here decided to have a birthday also around this date, and of course who can resist the temptation to make another cake!!!This was a simple cake but i wanted it to be totally adult and delectable for a group of girls.....so i made a Chocolate Baileys carmel cake with chocolate Caramel Baileys

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Here is the results of my largest cake yet, finished on sunday in time for my friends son's birthday! I made most of the fondant details last week, and started the rest the beginning of this week (6 days before) . The cake was a big success, and I was really pleased with the result.It is 22 inches long in total, and comprised of 2 x 9x13 inch yellow cakes, 1 x 9x13 inch chocolate cake and 1 x 9

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Ok so I had problems with the marzipan, the taste was great the texture was wrong maybe it was because i did not add corn syrup? I made it last year and it was perfect and rolled onto my cake easily, this time it was a nightmare! I will have to think of another use for it! and try out a new recepie for christmas!I ended up using an apricot glaze and 2 layers of fondant, boy fondant is hard to

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just preparing my finale cake for the Wilton Fondant and gum paste course. i have decided to do a traditional British fruit cake in an 8 inch round this time (as opposed to my usual white/yellow cake) so that the cake will last until my mum and sister come in 10 days! The fruit cake and my house smelt wonderful when it came out of the oven (3hrs 15mins of baking time) Phew!You are supposed to

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