Children in Need

I've been asked a number of times by work colleagues in our Bristol depot to send them cakes so I thought it would be a chance to do so and help a good cause at the same time by making them pay for the pleasure. Pudsey Bear is in sugar paste with a flower paste eye patch and the building blocks are also flower paste. The letters and Pudseys face are air brushed stencils. You can't see them all in the photo but around the edges are stencilled toy elephants, rocking horses and trains in different colours.

Children in Need cake

Andrews DIY birthday

The theme I was given for my nephew Andrew was DIY so I started to think about woodworking tools that would work. Planks of wood were hardly a challenge and the saw, mallet and first aid kit were quite straightforward but the paint pot and brush took a couple of attempts before I was happy with them. With the air brush stencilled figures around the edge of the cake work well so a few of those finished it off.

DIY cake

Mikes patriotic birthday

I was asked to make a 70th birthday cake for my Mums' friend Mike with a patriotic theme and with only a little notice I came up with this sponge cake. I can now make a rose with confidence so a red rose and a waving St Georges' flag made what I think is a pretty stylish result, the little red flowers around the edges tying it all together.



Mikes England cake



Halloween

With halloween coming up and a fruit cake in the cupboard it seemed the perfect opportunity to experiment with my air brush.
With the cake marzipanned and covered with white sugar paste I make some stencils and got to work. A round stencil protected the white paste as I sprayed several coats of purple, which I then covered to spray the ground and house, then the witch. A bit of sparkle coming from her broomstick and hey presto.



Halloween witch cake