Bows and Sweet Peas Birthday Cake

A pretty ivory tiered 60th birthday cake with bows and sugar sweet peas in shades of lilac, pink and deep purple

Sugar Teachers ~ Cake Decorating and Sugar Art Tutorials: How to Make a Gumpaste Bow

I've been trying to perfect decorative sugar bows - this tutorial is about the best I've found:

~ Sugar Teachers ~ Cake Decorating and Sugar Art Tutorials: How to Make a Gumpaste Bow

Royal Blue and Ivory Wedding Cupcakes

For Claire and Brian

Cadbury Purple Chocolate Cupcakes

For Lisa's wedding............

Fondant Ribbon Roses Tutorial

Easy peasy fondant ribbon roses - you don't need any special equipment for these, just fingers, fondant icing, a freezer bag and scissors

Slit open the freezer bag along the sides and cut off the zip lock if it has one, then open it out (keep any printing as your bottom layer)

Roll a golf ball size piece of fondant into a chipolata size sausage

Nip off 4 small olive size pieces of fondant, roll three into balls and the fourth into a small sausage and place them on one half of the freezer bag

Now fold over the freezer bag and with your thumb flatten three of the balls, keeping the top edge slightly fatter than the bottom edge - they don't have to be perfect or even exactly the same shape and size

then gently press the sausage shape into a flat oval disc

With a finger, roll up the oval disc into a spiral

Take one of the circles the place the top (thicker) edge over the seam of the spiral and roll it loosely around the spiral

Take another circle and place it half way over the first one, press lightly at the base

Place the third circle overlapping the second and again press lightly at the base

Now gently roll the base between your fingers to fix everything together, take your scissors and snip off just below the rose head

Gently place the rose on to some kitchen towel or baking parchment and leave to dry overnight

Et voila! pretty fondant roses to decorate your cupcakes, wedding cakes, anything you like

Watch me make them!!

Liv's Party Cake

A pretty hearts 12th birthday cake for our lovely Liv. Light chocolate sponge and vanilla icing, sparkly hearts and flowers

Royal Blue Roses

It's got to be Royal Blue this year, the Jubilee.

Cadburys Purple, Ohhh yes!

Not a bad match if I do say so myself...... took a bit of tinkering with the colour palette, but we got there in the end........... I LOVE this colour 

Chocolate Cigarillo Cream & Fruit

This blog is meant to be about small cakes, but I seem to be on a big cake roll at the moment. For my friend's Dad's birthday lunch, a delicious light chocolate cake with vanilla cream and fruit, surrounded by Swiss white chocolate cigarillos  - it's for a man, but it still gets a pretty bow!