Lovely Alice's First Birthday

It was my cousin's lovely baby Alice's first birthday this weekend, and she had a Minnie Mouse themed party. It was such a lovely day cause all the family were together, plus lots of little friends of Alice's, all playing together.

Alice was mainly being passed around for cuddles, and I got plenty of cuddle time with her. I even held her why my sister fed her jelly, which was just the cutest thing! Its safe to say I was feeling more than a little broody as we left, boyfriend was ushering me away by the end...shame.

We made Alice a pink Minnie Mouse cake to celebrate the occasion, for which my little sis made loads of lovely Minnie Mouse's (Minnie Mice...?) with lovely pink bows that we put all over the cake:

I think my little sis did an amazing job with the Minnies! The hardest part about this cake was covering it in the icing, it was so big that the icing was really heavy, and I had visions of the whole thing cracking before I could get it on. Luckily enough all went smoothly - no pun intented!

And as she's such a beautiful little lady, here is a picture of little Alice looking utterly bemused when she's given her cake!


What a gorgeous little Angel!

Ciao for now xx

Ron's 60th Birthday Cake - Wurlitzer Jukebox

It was my boyfriends step-dad's 60th birthday the other week, and when they got home from a celebratary holiday, we tottered over to take them out for dinner. Birthday Boy Ron has an amazing Wurlitzer jukebox in his lounge, so I decided to create an edible version for him to enjoy as much, if not more, than the original. It couldn't play records, but then the jukebox doesn't have a buttercream filling.

So...here we have a picture of the jukebox in all its glory:
And here is my edible representation:

I had so much fun putting this cake together, and looking through my parents record collection for some 45's to put in the pictures! Ron was delighted with the cake when we went over, and it was really nice to have something a bit special to give him for his birthday.

Anyway, hope you guys like it! x

Royal Wedding

I feel that as yesterday was such a moment in history, I should at least touch on it breifly.

I felt very proud to be british yesterday; it was lovely to see red, white and blue bunting everywhere! I sat and watched the wedding from 10am onwards, fitting in a speedy shower between them getting to the palace and the balcony scene!

I thought Kate (Catherine?) looked absolutely gorgeous in her dress. I was glad she chose Alexander McQueen's successor to create the gown, it was absolutely gorgeous and although I've no plans to wander down the aisle any time soon, I would like one just to wear around the house.

As you can imagine, I was unbelievably excited to see what the cake would look like. I had heard rumours of a three teir simple cake...but goodness knows where that information came from cause there was no simple about the finished product! It was absolutely stunning.
I can imagine everyone at Fiona Cairns is having a well deserved break today, I think what they acheived is just incredible. I bow to you Fiona, you and your team did brilliantly!

Lady Gaga Cake

It was the birthday of one of my very best friends, so I wanted to make an amazing cake. She's absolutely in love with Lady Gaga, so I decided to make a cake based on the video for 'Telephone'.

I wanted to make a telephone to sit on the top that looked a little like the one Lady Gaga wore for her appearance on Jonathan Ross, and the bottom teir I took ideas from the video itself. I ended up incorporating the American flag and Police tape outfits Lady Gaga wears for the bottom teir. The overall look was a little something like this:

I had to stick all those sparkly bits on by hand, which was a pretty lengthy process...but I really like the effect they created. Lots of them fell off as my friend couldn't resist pretending it was ringing and posing with it for much of the evening!


It was great to see the cake was so well appreciated!

Boyfriends Birthday - Monopoly Bar Crawl

It was my boyfriends birthday recently, and he decided to do a 'Monopoly Bar Crawl' to celebrate the occasion. This is pretty much what it sounds like, a jaunt around the 26 places featured on a Monopoly board until you've reached the end, or lost the ability to stand.

Being the very good girlfriend that I am, I made him a Monopoly board birthday cake to take to work.

Making this cake was much easier than the bar crawl...!

Easter Bunnies

Easter is mere days away. It's boiling hot to the point that I wish it was socially acceptable to head to Tesco's in a Bikini, or in the very least being followed around with your own personal industrial-fan holders. I'd have three; They'd all be unbelievably attractive.

But no, instead I have no industrial fan holders and I'm spending the day making my Grandads birthday cake. Its a Liquorice Allsorts one. (Don't tell). Every time I head to the oven to get anything out, I then have to stick my whole entire body as far into the fridge as it will go to cool back down again. Oh yes, my life is very glamourous.

Cakes are now cooling ready to be decorated (I'll put a picture up when its finished) so while I had some time I thought I'd put up a picture of the Easter Bunny Cupcakes we made for Easter Sunday.

Any of you who read my previous blog will know that the Easter cake we made not long ago was actually eaten on the day of creation...so I had to come up with something else. These were what I came up with:

Little bunny faces coming out of their burrows, and little bunny bums going in. I think the bums aren't that distinguishable, but I think they're cute none the less.

Happy Easter All! xx

Royal Wedding Cupcakes

With the Royal wedding fast approaching, the whole of Great Britain is preparing for a peppering of Union Jack flags, bunting and good old fashioned tea parties. Never one to miss out on a trend, my sisters and I decided to make some cupcakes dedicated to our soon-to-be Royal Newlyweds.

We decided to make simple cupcakes with three themes of topper. We went for a Union Jack Flag...

which I think came out really well. The colours went nicely with the light blue icing and the pattern was easy to replicate for multiple cupcakes. Plus, theres nothing like a bit of patriotism for our Royal Family, the least we could do!

The second cupcake pattern was based around the idea of Royalty itself, with a crown design.

We'd just got some exciting new gold paint so this was an excellent chance to try it out. The paint went on really nicely so we're looking forward to using it again. The third cake was based around the newlyweds themselves.

This was my least favourite topper, I have to say. Not only were we umming and ahhing about whether to write C for Catherine or K for Kate, but I was also told, after doing all the toppers, that I had been doing my & signs the wrong way round my whole life! My mum broke the news, and I was devistated to discover that I'd been making a fool of myself in all my abreviations until now. Also I just didn't think the design was as good as the other two. Anyway, we made a lovely display for the cakes and took lots of pictures. My mum has an amazing teapot from the Queens corronation which is shaped like her carriage. Look out for it in the second of the pictures, its really quite special.


So all thats left for me to say is good luck to the happy couple, I'm sure Kate will look gorgeous in her dress and the whole country will have an excellent day off to celebrate. Have fun whatever you're doing! xx