Mermaid cake

Here is my latest cake. It is another one from Debbie browns enchanted cakes for children. I found this the hardest one yet due to the modelling. I am not very happy with it but my friend loves it and it is for her daughter - so I guess, that is all that matters.

Ballet Shoe cookie

These cookies are my first attempt at iced cookies. I made and iced them in one night and posted them the next day to Guernsey. They arrived the following day in perfect condition.

Ballerina Cake

My final cake to date is for my Niece's birthday. I really enjoyed making this cake from Debbie Brown's Enchanted cakes for children.



The cake is an 8" round HD sponge (recipe from http://www.bsguk.org/). It is being flown out to Guernsey tomorrow s hopefully my mum gets it there in one piece. I also made Jennifer some ballet shoe cookies which I posted out for her birthday. If she has still got some left, I will get my dad to take a photo to add to this blog.

White chocolate Roses cake

The inspiration for cake three was a wedding cake that I saw on someone else's website. I am sorry but I cannot remember where it was - so I cannot give credit for it.

The top tier was a 6" high density baileys sponge covered in Baileys butter cream. The recipe was taken from the recipe section of http://bsguk.org/forum/index.php I made the roses after attending a few evening classes in Swindon. Not quite the colour that I wanted but good practice all the same.

The bottom tier was a 10" carrot cake covered in orange butter cream.

The sides of the cake were white chocolate. I melted it and then spread it onto a sheet of parchment to set before cutting it to size and sticking to the cake with more buttercream. I only found out about having to temper chocolate after I had finished the cake - yet another learning curve.

Mothers Day cake

The second cake was for Mothers day 2009. I had recently attended a one day modelling course in Swindon with Ann Pickard - what a fabulous tutor she is. If you get the chance to attend one of her classes, I would definately recomend it. She is back in Swindon on Aug 16th 2009

http://www.sugar-celebrations.co.uk/Courses/SwindonCourses/tabid/72/Default.aspx

Our final model of the day was a lady sat in an armchair. My lady was knitting and I decided to use it as a topper for my Mum's mothers day cake. It was an 10" madeira sponge cake (recipe from the Ann pickard books). Finish was not great and I do not think I kneaded the icing enough to make it pliable but we live and learn.

First cakes

These are the first cakes that I have baked and decorated from scratch.

The first was for my mum's 65th Birthday. It was an 8" fruit cake that i used patchwork cutters from the christmas midi set to decorate. I also used the tappits alphabet cutters.

I am Sarah and I am married to Plum and we have twin boys aged 6 who are just gorgeous. I am an aircraft technician in the military and I am currently doing an OU degree in the hope that I can retrain to be a primary school teacher at the end of my service.

I have always been interested in crafting and I have tried my hand at most crafts. After attending a birthday party for triplets last year where the birthday cakes were fantastic, I decided that I needed to have ago so that I can make by boys the best birthday cakes ever - hopefully by the time they get married, I will be proficient enough to do their wedding cakes, so that is how my interest in cakes developed.