Making Life A Little Sweeter....

A space to share my creative endeavours - cake decorating, nail art and crafts :)

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FLORAL CAKE (20th Oct)

Lots of rose swirls and glitter :) Not quite sure what i was doing with the pink...

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TWIN RAINBOW CAKES (29th Sept)

Both were rainbows on the inside but i don't have a picture of that :(

I originally tried to make a gumpaste rainbow (i made three) but they just wouldn't stand (i think they were too big or heavy) so on the morning of the party, i quickly put together the rainbow we ended up using. It's just fondant stuck to cardboard LOL

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JUNGLE CAKE (7th Sept)

First time I've made fondant animals! Quite pleased with how they turned out.

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PEACOCK CAKE (30th Aug)

If anybody would like a tutorial for the peacock, let me know :)

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K-POP CUPCAKES (18th Aug)

My friends and I love Korean music so we had a little K-pop party on Saturday :) I made the faces and logos of three of our favourite groups; Big Bang, 2NE1 and B.A.P

I wasn’t too pleased because they weren’t how I’d imagined them but the girls loved them. I guess I’m too much of a perfectionist lol

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ITIKAAF/PRAYER MAT CAKE (8th Aug)

The cake is made in the shape of a Muslim prayer mat (aka musalla or sajadah) and the green prayer beads (aka tasbeeh) were made of fondant

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STAR TREK CAKE (27th May)

The icing was too runny :(

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GIANT CUPCAKE (27th May)

First attempt at buttercream roses!

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WHISTLE CAKE (17th May)

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CASTLE CAKE (20th April)

This is the most ambitious cake I've made so far! I was working on it for two days! It wasn't too hard to decorate but it was time consuming, especially the pink spires which I did layer by layer (not sure if you can tell from the pic).

The main challenge was getting the towers to stay upright! As you can see, the towers on the top tier were a bit lopsided.

The bottom tier was normal sponge cake but I'd used pink colouring, and the top tier was chocolate cake.

All in all, everybody loved it and it was a success!

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NEW BABY! (13th April)

Once again, I forgot to take pics :/ 

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HALF BIRTHDAY (29th March)

Made these for the twins half birthday celebrations!

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HENRY (10th March)

Sorry for disappearing again. Between uni, exams and life I've not really been on tumblr as much. I've got so many new cakes to post and I'm going away next week so I've queued up posts for every wednesday til the end of july when i get back so there'll be fairly regular updates :)

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Charity Fundraising

My friends and I have pledged to raise £10,000 for a charity called Orphans in Need. We held a cake sale a couple of weeks ago so I made a sponge and buttercream cake, cupcakes and a victoria sponge (not pictured lol) we made around £250 from this one cake sale! woot.

The big cake was a 10" round cake which was about 6" or so tall. I did a royal icing design in dark pink on the top and added a pink ribbon and diamante ribbon to finish it off. 

Anyway, the charity really is a worthy cause! They're making a village in Delhi, India which is entirely for orphans and has everything they could need from homes with carers to a school and teachers. You can see how progress is going here.

If you would like to donate (you don't have to!), you can do so here (our personal page) or here (via the website). Every penny counts! There's also an option to sponsor a child in another part of the world.

Of course, you don't have to make a donation, but if you could please reblog or let others know it would be much appreciated <3

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TARDIS Cake!

This was the cake I made for my uncle. It was a bit of a rush job but it still turned out half decent :)

I bought a black edible pen so that I could make the windows and the little info plaque thing and it was such a fail! It wouldnt write properly and it came out a weird greeny blue colour :/ SO disappointing!

and i'm so silly, I forgot to make white icing for the POLICE BOX bit at the top and then didn't have time at the end hehe and make a little short dalek to go with it haha

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Cake Pops!

My first attempt at making cake pops went quite well thankfully :) I made these for Sarah's b'day party back in January. It was a nice little addition to the cake table.

I used candy melts in dark cocoa mint (i couldnt find black) and red vanilla flavoured melts to fit the red and black theme she had. I topped them with a mixture of silver holographic, black and red glitters.

The use of aqua marble thingies was a bit of a fail because they couldn't hold the cake pops upright haha oh well, it was worth a try. 

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Rainbow Cake!

So for her 30th, Sarah wanted a rainbow cake for breakfast so of course, her wish was my command :P 

I used normal victoria sponge recipe x3 (I actually cheated and used a ready mix *ashamed*) and split the mixture into 6 and coloured each with paste food colour. I used cream cheese frosting (her fave) between each layer and to cover it. Topped it with m&ms and it was done!

The blue is definitely my favourite layer there! It's so vibrant :D

I was a little worried as to how it would turn out as the red and orange mixtures looked the same before they'd been cooked and the cooked purple looked waaayyy too dark! I think i must have just overcooked it a little because it was fine when we cut it..phew!

Anyway, Sarah loved it and now wants me to recreate it at some poinbt *rolls eyes*