Homesense Merry Hill VIP Evening

For any of my readers who live in the West Midlands (or nearby), I will be displaying some of my cakes at the Merry Hill Homesense VIP Shopping Evening, this Wednesday, the 5th of October, between 6 and 9pm.

Drop by, say hello and try a cupcake. Any orders placed on the night will recieve a 10% discount!

Too hot for a White Wedding

For the last several months, myself and the management team where I work have been counting down to a big day, the wedding of one of our team leaders, JJ, to his fiance Stacey. They asked me ages ago to make the cake for the 1st of October and I gladly agreed, never for a moment thinking I would have quite so many issues with it.

The week of the wedding rolled around and just happened to be the hottest week we have had all year, temperatures in the high 20's every day. Yes, you read that right, hottest week of the year...in September!

I had to get creative with my fondant as it kept sticking in the heat, and I had a serious panic towards the end of the week when the fondant just wouldn't harden off, but in the end the cake looked beautiful, the bride and groom loved it and it was great seeing all the reactions at the wedding reception.

A Unique Birthday Cake

A very good friend of mine got in touch recently and asked me to make her a cake for her upcoming 30th Birthday, she's a huge fan of music, and together this last year we have attended an awful lot of gigs together. She asked me to incorporate the logos of some of the acts she has seen this year into the cake and I was rubbing my hands together with glee at the thought of getting to grips with this one.

My idea was to have a gig ticket on the top that featured her birthday as the event, with the logos on a musical stave around the outside. I also added in a number of 5 pointed 'lone stars' as I know she has an affinity for them (and several tattooed on her!)

That was the greatest thing about this cake, the fact that since it was for someone I knew so well I could throw in that little detail, just to make it more personal.

The logos were the trickiest part of the cake, faithfully reproducing something that represents a band in such an iconic and instantly recognisable way was a real test of my skills, but I was extremely proud of the way they all turned out.










If you want to check out the bands that are represented here then they are (left to right, top to bottom) Deftone, Avenged Sevenfold, Skindred, Bring Me The Horizon (possibly the cutest thing ever right there), Good Charlotte, Framing Hanley, Corey Taylor (Slipknot), System of a Down, Alkaline Trio and Linkin Park.

Kate was thrilled with the cake when I delivered it on Saturday and had absolutely no intention of letting any of her family anywhere near the logos. I think she's going to save them all!

A Lesson Learned

Remember this?

Well the lady in question got back in touch via twitter to say that her holiday was a go again as she had found someone to care for her pets. It was very short notice but I accepted the challenge and got started on the figures for her cupcakes. She had asked me for a dozen CSI: New York themed cupcakes and I had some great ideas. Tying into the American theme, and her love of summer fruits, I found a recipe for Red, White and Blueberry cupcakes that I decided to use.

As I was making the models I asked the client to get in touch as delivery was going to be very time sensitive, she was passing through a nearby train station on her way to London and we had agreed that I would deliver the cakes to her there. As time went on I got a little worried as I hadn't heard anything from her.



To cut a long story short the client didn't get in touch, and I learnt a valuable lesson. Taking an order over the internet, get payment up front.



Still, I got some more practice with figure modelling, and I think the finished result was extra cute. The other half and I are certainly enjoying eating them now too!

Rock and Toddle

I've just delivered the rocking cake for my colleague's little boy's 2nd birthday party this weekend.

The young man in question loves rock music, he'll rock out to Kerrang on television, and whenever he goes to visit his grandfather he tries to play his Gibson Les Paul. We decided to give him his very own guitar cake for his birthday, complete with the logo of one of his favourite bands, AC/DC, on the body.

What a shame

Sadly my first international commission has been cancelled. The client is no longer able to make it over to the UK for her trip, or for her cupcakes. I may still take the idea behind the cupcakes and play with it, perhaps using the details on a larger cake.

I also hope that my client will be able to re-schedule her trip for sometime in the near future so she can actually get her cupcakes.

Watch this space.

Two for August.

I've got two orders coming up for August.

First up is a cake for a rock music loving toddler's birthday in 2 weeks time. This young man loves his grandfather's Les Paul guitar so he's getting a replica for his birthday. I've been online and sketched up some ideas, can't wait to get the pictures up.

After that is my first international order. A young lady from Sweden who heard about my cakes is visiting the UK at the end of the month and asked me to make her some cupcakes to enjoy on her travels. Really excited about that but can't post anything until she has seen them as she doesn't want to ruin the surprise.