My first Liverpool shirt

I made this for a friends cousins 18th. She asked for a Liverpool shirt. I used egg white mixed with icing sugar to pipe the badge and the other logos etc on the cake and the lines on the footie pitch/ board.

Elliot’s cupcakes

My son Elliot loves to get stuck in baking and mixing and icing he can’t help himself. So while I’m busy and his brother is napping I try to make sure I have something for him to do. He made these cupcakes himself (I measured and Elliot poured and mixed!). I ten showed him how to spoon half way up the cake cases which he managed….it was messy but he managed. By time hey had baked and cooled Jude was having his nap and Elliot sat and iced his cupcakes fro all his friends and teachers at nursery while I carried on with my jobs :). He’s not bad either. Think I have some competition. He did ask me to draw some ‘wuv choos’ (love hearts) on a few though. One had an Elliot face with Elliot’s curly hair too.

Spiderman cake

One of my Facebook friends requested this for her sons birthday party. She was very pleased with it. I was a bit disappointed at how my lines looked droopy. But this was the first time I had made my own royal icing and made it a little too sloppy for piping onto the cake. Learn from our mistakes….

Mums dougal cake

My mums favourite cartoon as a kid was magic roundabout and she had a dougal that she took everywhere. So I decided to make her this cake for her birthday. We got her a Westie puppy for her birthday also which she called……dougal! 🙂 he’s lovely.

I moulded the cake into a log shape and iced on the chocolate frosting using the electric pen to make the lines for his hair. Looking back on it if maybe use a lighter vanilla or fudge kinda frosting. I made his face using fondant as stuck it on with buttercream.

Pirate ship cake

Australian bon voyage cake

This cake was made for my aunt and uncle who’s friend was returning home to Australia. It’s my usual birthday sponge with fondant kangaroo koala and cans of fosters.

Giant valentines cupcakes

This is a chocolate and vanilla giant cupcake with fondant hearts that I made for valentines day. I think my sons enjoyed it most. It was lovely but very very sweet. I could only eat the thinnest slice.

Ian’s birthday cake

I made this very quickly with stuff I had lying around for an unexpected visit to see my cousin for his birthday. It’s the usual vanilla sponge with vanilla buttercream and jam and fondant. I used fondant for the logo and an liquorice pen to draw the liver bird on. And decorated it with plastic football cake bits that my mother in law passed on to me.

My Grandads Scottish themed birthday cake

I made this cake for my Grandads birthday in January 2012. It was a chocolate sponge with chocolate buttercream and fondant.
I modelled the Scotsman from fondant and all the haggis and loch ness monster. I used an electric icing pen to do the writing which I found a bit sloppy and hard to control.

Fourth birthday cake

I was asked by a Facebook friend to make a cake for her daughters fourth birthday. She wanted flowers and showed me a design which I interpreted into this.
There are two small 4inch round cakes in the middle vanilla with jam and vanilla buttercream and the cupcakes are coloured buttercream and vanilla sponge. Some have fondant insects on also.