More Birthday Cakes for Little People

Here are a few more of the birthday cakes I have been asked to make...

Most recently I was requested to make a Peppa pig themed birthday cake.

Lyla, 3, specifically asked for a heart shaped chocolate cake with pink icing and Peppa sitting on the top...

I added the flowers to make it a little extra special. 

1st Birthday Cake

At the end of August my family celebrated my niece, Isla's, first birthday. It was a busy weekend as my parents were moving house and I also celebrated my 28th birthday. 

As the resident cake maker in the family, my brother and sister-in-law asked if I would make Isla's cake. They picked Isla's favourite story book, Dear Zoo, as the theme...

Being a perfectionist, or maybe just a faffer, it took me ages to make all the animals but I was pretty pleased with outcome and so was the birthday girl and her parents! Phew. 

Cakes for the Free Trade Inn

Having a boyfriend who manages a pub means I get roped into helping out sometimes. 

With a few special events planned I was asked if I could make suitable sweet treats. 

Cherry pie to go with the launch of a beer called 'Twin Peaks'.

Any of you who have watched the cult 90s tv series will know why this is relevant, the rest if you will just have to watch it to find out! 

IPA Day. With all the lovely IPAs on the bar, I was asked to make carrot cake 

but with the addition in cardemom to give  it a Indian spiced twist. The cardamom worked really well and the cakes were a success.

May 2013

Back in May, my oldest and dearest friend, Elinor, got married. She had asked me to be her bridemaid and I was absolutely thrilled. She also asked me to make her wedding cake and I was totally honoured ( and only slightly s****ing myself!). 

The bride and groom had decided on a two tiered cake made up of a lemon cake and a carrot cake. That was the easy part. The decoration was a little more complex! 

I do like a challenge! 

Stripes, stripes and more stripes....

It took a while but I was pretty pleased with the outcome! 

They seemed pleased! 

Remember me...

Wow, I have well and truly neglected my blog in the past 2 years! Now im not going to promise anything but I will try not to leave it as long between posts from now on!

So to start things off, again, i'll put up a few pictures of what I've been baking recently...