Chris & Paul's 25th Silver Wedding Anniversary Cake

This is a close up of the peony on Chris and Paul's cake.

I used rose cutters to cut out the petals, and stretched them a little larger, and for the leaves, I used a plastic template cut out of an old plastic tub from the leaf shapes in Alan Dunn's book.

I used for the first time, a spray which gave it a nice gentle sheen and a richer colour.

I want to thank Janet Melillo for the lessons she has given me this year which have allowed me to improve the standard of sugarcraft work I do.

Chris & Paul's 25th Silver Wedding Anniversary Cake

A plain simple understated oval fruit cake covered  in marzipan and then Regalice, is the base for an open peony which decorates this cake for lovely friends to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary.

There is some silver, you just can't see it on this picture, but I covered the edge of the cake board with a burgundy ribbon and then placed another narrower ribbon on top in silver.

Chris loves peonies and has her own blog 'purple peonies' showing the beautiful cards she makes.... the link is on the right hand side of this page if you fancy taking a look.

Books of The Bible Cake

We were having a finger buffet to mark the occasion of our leader (Ann's) 'special' birthday... we aren't allowed to say which one!

Asked to provide food I had to offer to make a cake didn't I.. but then wondered how best to present it when it needed to be picked up fairly easily.

I came up with the idea of covering the top of a cake with marzipan and a variety of coloured icing, and then piped the name of a book of the Bible on each one.  I have to admit to choosing shorter names because there wasn't much room.

I wonder if people went for their favourite book or the colour they liked?

Each slice was placed inside a muffin case. I know it didn't fit properly, but at least gave some protection for each slice and something to pick the cake up with..  Happy Birthday Ann!

Charlie's Christening Cake

This was a Christening Cake for Charlie, a beautiful baby, the first grandchild of a colleague of mine. I made this two-tier fruit cake, covered it  in marzipan and Regalice.

To make the blocks I used Regalice and made the letters using a stencil.

I hadn't made booties before and got the idea of making them like this from creativecakesncookies.blogspot.co.uk which I found on YouTube. She did not have a pattern, but I soon made one out of paper looking at the shapes she used and stuck the pieces together with cellotape first to see if the sizes fitted together okay, tweaking them a bit.  I then mixed gum tragacanth into some Regalice so that it would harden, and then proceeded to cut out the shapes and build the shoe as shown... easy!