One party, two cakes...

The customer ordered a two tier rich fruit cake for her girlfriend - Rachel's - 50th birthday, topped with an edible gold tiara and decorated with an embossed diamond pattern around the side of the cakes and gold dragees and gold pearl details.

 Also ordered was a double height rich fruit cake for Rachel's mum, who was celebrating her 70th birthday.  Black and white bands, gold framed plaque and sugar peony really do make this a striking cake.

Both cakes inspired by photos the cutomer found on the internet - sorry I don't know who to credit for the original designs.

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Wedding Cake 'Karishma'

Congratulations to such a lovely, sweet couple - Karishma & Jo. They had a 4 tier cake - in vanilla, a Ferrero Rocher inspired chocolate-hazelnut, and zesty lemon sponges - decorated with sugar ruffles, diamond embossing with gold dragees, their specially designed monogram and finished with purple hand-made roses and purple ribbon.  All set up, ready for the bride and groom at The Fennes Estate, Essex.

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Pink Marble Ombré Wedding Cake

 

Warmest congratulations to Sharmini & Gajan who celebrated their wedding at the InterContinental London Park Lane.  Taking inspiration of design features from lots of different cakes that Sharmini liked, we designed this 4 tier cake with ombré pink marble effect (ie starts off light at the top and gradually gets darker on each tier). It was finished with a feature fantasy peony with gold leaves.

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Oopsie!

I really have been very bad at updating my blog!  My bad!  I'll try to do better, I promise.  Starting from tomorrow (if I get a decent photo of the cake I'm delivering.  That's the trouble with so many places - beautiful function suite; dreadful lighting!!!)  

Anyway, here are the ones I've omitted to post.

So this pretty pale pink and white cake from about a month ago at the Crowne Plaza in Gerrard's Cross is a version of 'Sana' that I did last year in different colours....

Next up is a small selection of royal iced cookies as part of a 'sweetie table' at a wedding.

 

And then a 'pink pony cake' was the request of of Rachel for her 3rd birthday!

 I can't believe that at the end of July, it was a whole year since I'd made Jay & Harjit's wedding cake and I was delighted that they got in touch to ask me to make an anniversary cake, in the same colour scheme as their wedding cake.

Jasmin & Hardeep's cake was a collaboration with Becki of Floco, who provided all the flowers that went between each of the 5 tiers.  Each section of flowers was as tall as a cake, so in effect, their cake was the equivalent of 10 tiers tall!  Fortunately, Mr Pat-a-Cake was with me and helped in placing the top couple of tiers!

 

 

 I think that pretty much brings us up to date and I can carry on individual posts from here!

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50th Birthday Drip Cake

Happy 50th Birthday to Lynn who celebrated with a birthday meal out with friends. Chocolate sponge with vanilla buttercream, covered with whipped milk-chocolate ganache and dark-chocolate ganache drips... topped with Maltesers. How do you make a decadent chocolate cake EVEN MORE decadent? By having gold Maltesers! And why not?!
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Silhouette Wedding Cake

Congratulations to Samantha & David who were married at Gayes Park back in April.  

Samantha chose this pretty hand-painted silhouette wedding cake with yellow blossoms in shades of yellow and gold.

Many thanks to Abbey Weddings for the photographs. 
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Wedding Cake 'Sima'

At the beinning of December, it started like this:

Customer: Hi.  I know it's a bit short notice, but I need a wedding cake.

Me: OK...  how short? When's your wedding?
Customer: Sunday next week [that was 8 days away...!]

Me: gulp!

So Sima sent me through some cake photos that she wanted to use as inspiration and we created her own bespoke cake design.  If I say so myself, I think her cake was gorgeous and even if we'd had 8 months, this couldn't have looked any better!  It fitted the venue - The Great Room at The Grosvenor House on London's Park Lane - and the room decoration perfectly.  

As you can see from the first photo, I didn't get a great photo, but I had the photo edited to enhance the colour and lighting and the second photo is much better.  But the last picture is a close-up I took at home which shows the true colour and closer detail.  

My warmest congratulations to Sima and Rajan 

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Wedding Cake 'Matlida'

So many different elements on this cake, but they work so well together... ruffles; gold lustre; hand-piped royal icing; cake lace; pearl lustre. This has to be one of my favourites!

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Wedding Cake 'Abigail'

 

My very warmest congratulations to Abigail & Sahil. Abi chose this beautiful gold sequin cake. The original design by Zoe Clark uses gelatine sequins, but she Zoe told me that they aren't particularly palatable... so I decided to put my thinking cap on and came up with an alternative edible medium.  Abi also asked me to incorporate the Superman logo, as her fiancé (now husband!!) has a Superman tattoo, and I think it's kind of their 'thing', so there's a little surprise at the back of the cake.

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Wedding Cake 'Esha'

 My warmest congratulations to Esha & Matesh who celebrated their wedding this weekend. This is my largest wedding cake. 7 tiers - a mix of real cake and dummy tiers. The colour scheme for the reception was metalics - rose gold, gold, silver... and so Esha's cake reflected.  The huge bottom tier was covered in ruffles - and then each one had its edge painstakingl hand-painted painted in gold and rose gold! The rest of the cake was decorated using a mix of edible cake lace and hand-piped royal icing. The top two tiers were covered in edible rose-gold sequins.  I don't really like having my photo taken, but my husband wanted me in a shot to give an idea of the size... I'm 5'4" tall, so not exactly small!

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Wedding Cake 'Charlotte'

Wedding Cake 'Charlotte'... Beautiful 4 tier wedding cake, finished in royal icing, with ombré tones of bronze and gold and decorated with roses and hydrangea. This would also work with buttercream or white chocolate ganache if royal icing isn't for you!! Many thanks to Celebration Cakes by Catherine Scott for allowing me to copy their original design. 

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Rose Ruffle Wedding Cake

My very warmest congratulations to Amy & Elliott who were married at The Rosewood, London.  Amy wanted her cake to include 'rose ruffles' with a hint of pink as well as rose gold.  The decoration detail was added with hand-piped royal icing decoration, as well as some white edible cake lace and their monogram that featured on the invitations, place settings and menu cards.
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Photo Shoot

Last month, I created two completely different wedding cakes for a photo shoot at the majestic Moor Park Golf Club.  I am beyond thrilled with the gorgeous photos.  

This first cake is a 5 tier white-on-white cake that was created to echo the exquisite detail on an Ersa Atelier wedding dress called 'Truth', by using edible Cake Lace and hand-piped royal icing.

The second cake, in traditional Asian wedding colours of red and gold, took elements of the exquisite Asian wedding dress, worn by Sabeehah.

 

Venue:  Moor Park Golf Club, Rickmansworth

Photography: Sophie Anwar Photography

Flowers & Styling: Floco Flower Company

Chairs and styling: Designer Chair Covers To Go

Make-up: Make up by Humera

Stationery: Papeterie Eugenie

Wedding dress: Seemas Sarees 

 

Wedding Cake 'Maria-Lena' - Museum

Wow!  What a truly spectacular venue for a wedding reception!  It's unbelievable how the great hall of The Natural History Museum (complete with Dippy the Diplodocus!) was transformed into a magical wedding reception venue.  'Starlight' back drops, gold dance floor in front of the grand staircase (each step lined with several tea-lights), the most incredible table centre-pieces by Floco Flower Company, lighting..  just wow!  Congratulations to Maria-Lena and Bharan! (And yes, this is the same couple who had a smaller reception the week before).  They chose this gorgeous, opulent 6 tier buttercream cake - entirely sprayed with edible gold lustre, with rustic finish and decorated with flowers.  Alternate tiers of Victoria sponge and red velvet cake.

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16th Birthday Cookies

Vanilla butter cookies in purple and gold for a 16th birthday.

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Wedding Cake 'Jasmin'

 

 

Huuuuge 6 tier wedding cake.  The white ruffled tiers were 6" tall and by contrast, the gold tiers were only 3" tall.   I can't take credit for the design, as the customer brought me a photo of a cake that she'd fallen in love with, but I don't know the original designer.

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Cupcake Tower Display for a Golden Wedding Anniversary

Congratulations to Pat & Barry who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary yesterday.  Chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream swirls and decorated with sugar flowers and sugarpaste discs with hand-piped royal icing initials, painted in edible gold lustre.
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Valentines Day Cupcakes

Red and gold Valentine's Day cupcakes... Light and fluffy vanilla sponge cupcakes, filled with a vanilla buttercream and then topped with sugarpaste.   The first pic is of the cupcakes all boxed up and ready to go - complete with new personalised ribbon! ;o)

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Wedding Cake 'Catherine' - gold and red

Wedding Cake 'Catherine' in red and gold. Whilst perfect all year round, this also says 'Christmas wedding' to me. It also perfectly lends itself for an Asian wedding, as red and gold are traditional colours. I must confess to being more than a little in love with this one!!

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Wedding Cake 'Catherine - gold

An opulent twist on the classic all-white Wedding Cake Catherine. String work all hand-painted with edible gold lustre as well as some of the flowers in the sugar flower topper.

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