The Cake...

The cakes were baked, vanilla, fruit and chocolate brown ale, and ready to be iced.
After all my practicing I was still a little nervous but magically it all went amazingly well! I took my time and tried not to panic!



I attached the roses ( using inspiration from images of other wedding cakes) and I was pretty chuffed with the final result. And after it was transported and delivered I was even happier!

The Wedding Cake

So after all my prepping and practicing the time finally came to get cracking!
I spent a lot of time making the sugar roses and they didn't come without their problems.Argh!
The main issue was the colour of the flower paste. I first attempted to dye my own but for various reasons that didn't work, so I used a ready made colour, Ponsettia, but the colour still wasn't right! As time was running out I had to go with that colour. My mum, the saviour that she is, then painstakingly painted each rose with red food paste. I've definitely learnt my lesson for the future, be super, super organised!

The Wedding Cake

My friends,Laura and Brian, got married in May and asked me to make their cupcake wedding cake. As it was the first time i'd attempted anything like this on my own I was pretty nervous but I think it turned out ok in the end!

The cupcakes were simple vanilla but with ingredients including yogurt and ground almonds meaning they stayed moist and fresh for the big day. The icing was white choclate butter icing. Super simple and super tasty!

Mum helped me with the top cake. Bismark fruit cake. A recipe passed down from my Grandma. Unlike a traditional fruit cake Bismark is full of brazil nuts, pineapple, coconut, cranberries in a light, moist sponge.