Wedding Cake 'Brenda'

 It was an absolute delight to meet Brenda & Kalu and I send my very warmest congratulations.  They were married at The Prince Regent Hotel, Chigwell. They chose this 4 tier cake with textured royal icing finish, decorated with bejewelled silk flowers.

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Nightmare Before Christmas

Congratulations to Ernest & Georgia who were married this weekend.  They didn't want a fully themed cake, but they did want a nod to their favourite film - The Nightmare Before Christmas.  So we kept to a black, white and silver palette and just introduced the famous hill and they had toppers that they'd purchased online (these aren't their toppers - I added these to give the cake 'context').

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Get Well Soon Cookies

Get well soon cookies.  Vanilla butter cookies with royal icing decoration.

I'm afraid I don't know who to credit with the original design, as I was sent a picture by the customer.

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New Baby Girl Cookies

Royal iced vanilla cookie favours.  The bonus of cookies is that, unlike cakes and cupcakes, they can be posted!

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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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Henna Inspired Wedding Cookie Favours

 

Just a small selection of the henna-pattern inspired cookies for Devina & Amrit's wedding... I love the bright colours and beautiful patterns! They may have taken me longer than anticipated, but seeing how thrilled the customer was when she collected them - and the lovely 'thank you' hug she gave me was certainly worth it!!  Royal icing flooded cookies with hand-piped royal icing detailing. There were 180 cookies in total, 3 cookies per bag. The customer had 60 beautiful boxes to place the bagged cookies in at home - boxes had peacock pattern on the front, with the bride & groom's name.

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Bridesmaids Cookies

 I'm more than a little bit in love with these!  I just love how Joëlle presented these cookies to her sisters and friends, asking them to be her bridesmaids.  Hand-cut, royal iced cookies with free-hand piping.  Thank you for the photos! x

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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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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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6 tier - Wedding Cake 'Amrit'

 

 On 28th June I delivered the largest wedding cake I've ever made to the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.  It was a 6 tier cake (although the bottom tier was a dummy tier - I simply don't have facilities to bake a 16" cake!)

The cakes were lemon sponge with lemon curd buttercream and coconut & lime with lime curd buttercream.  Once covered with sugarpaste, they were then highly pearlised before being decorated with royal icing stencil work.  The cake almost appeared to be floating, as it was displayed on a clear acrylic table and finally it finished with flowers - both from the very talented Floco Flower Co.

I don't usually post photos of myself, but I thought it would give some scale to the picture; I'm 5'4 tall, so not exactly a shortie!!
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Wedding Cake 'Varun'

This 5 tier ivory wedding cake, delivered to a central London hotel, was ordered by the groom's mother for a celebration which was actually taking place a week after the wedding... she said they have a celebration to welcome the bride and her family into their family. I love the sound of that - what a lovely tradition! The edible Cake Lace was actually over-piped which really gave it even more dimension and the hand-made ivory roses were highlighted with gold leaves, as well as gold filler flowers on top.  Because of the size of this cake (which you don't get a sense of in the photograph) it had to be finally assembled at the venue, hence the photo isn't as good as pictures I usually take...  however, the snap of the top tier which was transported on my lap whilst my husband drove, shows the gorgeous ivory roses and gold filler flowers, together with more of the over-piped Cake Lace.

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Busy week! Cookies and cupakes and cakes....

So, firstly this week, I had an order for some pretty, girly cupcake cookies as party favours.  Taylor's 13th birthday was an afternoon at a London venue and her mum wanted personalised cookie favours to give to her guests.  The colours she asked for were pink and turquoise.  I know from Taylor's mum that they were a big hit!

Next, came a Batman cake.... this was a delicious chocolate sponge with peanut butter buttercream.  I had the loveliest email from the customer  "Just wanted to say a massive thank you for the cake. By far had to be the best birthday cake I have had! I cannot seem to keep myself away from it!  Will most defiantly be ordering with you again!"  It always thrills me when a customer takes the time to let me know how much they've enjoyed a cake.  I hope Riad had a wonderful birthday!

Also this week were 3 dozen cupcakes with star sprinkles which were donated to a children's party which was raising funds for Haven House Children's Hospice.  Over £500 was raised at the event, which I know will be much appreciated.

And finally, 6 dozen cupcakes were delivered to central London for an Oscar's themed event.  All toppers completely edible and hand-made.

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Wedding Cake 'Maria'

 

My very warmest congratulations to Maria and Hayden who were married today at Orsett Hall Hotel. Maria chose a pearl/champagne highly lustred cake with white royal icing damask stencil decoration finished with edible pearls, which complemented the gold accents of her decoration perfectly. With the bottom tier a light vanilla sponge with jam & buttercream; the 2nd tier zesty lemon sponge with lemon curd buttercream; and the top two tiers chocolate sponge with chocolate buttercream, there is something for everyone!

    

 

 The bride hired a lovely set up for the table... I haven't seen this before, but it was really effective! On the actual table, was a 'separator' - and on top of that was glass or acrylic top the same size as the table, that the cake stand/cake sat upon. Between the table and the topper were silk flowers, pearls, etc.  I'm not sure my photographs do it justice, but it was really pretty and very unusual indeed!

 

As well as the wedding cake, I also made personalised cookie favours - a lovely way to combine table gifts and name place cards! 

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Wedding Cake 'Sharon' - for Aimee-Louise

Warmest congratulations to Aimee-Louise and Ben, who were married yesterday at the lovely Gaynes Park in Coopersale, Epping.  Aimee's colour theme of red and white was not only in the decoration of the cake - with piped royal icing pearls and hand-made sugar roses - but the inside of the cake, too!  4 tiers of red velvet sponge with cream cheese frosting.  The cake topper was provided by the bride.

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Mother's Day Cookies

Mother's Day Cookies

Vanilla cookies, decorated with royal icing - gerberas and letters in modelling paste.

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70th birthday cookies

First off, I must thank 'SweetAmbs' for her wonderful video tutorials.  I'm a HUGE fan of her work, which is simply exquisite.  One of the 'how to' videos is a technique using royal icing to make this delicate rose pattern.  I'd been wanting to try it for a while and so when I had a request for 'cookies in the shape of 70, in pink and white' I knew it was just the opportunity I'd been waiting for.  I am so delighted with how these turned out...  it just reminds me of delicate china or porcelain. 

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Flower Pot Cookies

Flower Pot Cookies
Perfect for a spring-time / Easter gift!
All-butter vanilla cookie, decorated with royal icing

Music cookies favours

Music-themed Royal Iced Cookies
Made as a raffle prize for a charity jazz evening

Royal Iced Cookie Favours

Wedding Cake 'Amy'

Wedding Cake 'Amy'
This beautiful wedding cake was created with a 'vintage' feel in mind. The bride wanted pink roses to match her bouquet. Hand-piped royal icing 'pearls' match the pattern on her stunning Alfred Sung gown.