Ivy Wedding Cake

This three tier wedding cake was unusal... well I thought it was!

It was a fruit cake, covered with marzipan and icing and where the pillars normally go, I put a band of cardboard around the supports and covered it with beautiful organza gold ribbon.

The very plain cake was decorated around the sides with a simple narrow gold ribbon.

The top tier had full size gold candles with a cascade of gold dusted ivy trailing down the cake.

The Grooms Birthday Cake

The Groom had his birthday on the day of his wedding.

Not being keen on fruit cake, which the wedding cake was, it was decided that he could have his very own chocolate sponge cake.... it was his birthday after all !!!!!

Helen's Wedding Cake

This is an oval three tier wedding cake I made for the daughter of someone at Church.

It is a fruit cake covered in marzipan and Regalice and I bought a reel of pre-embossed icing bands to wrap around the cake to create an interesting different look to this cake.

Of course today you can buy rolling pins that have patterns on them so you can make your own embossed band, but I had not seen anything like that prior to making this cake.

Margaret's Sweet Pea Cake

This was the first cake I made with sweet peas, a lacy edging and the inserted ribbon.

This cake was made for a very special lady and as her son asked me to make 'the best cake I possibly could' I pulled out all the stops.

I iced the name 'MOM' on the cake and Margaret made us laugh when she stood behind the cake to have her photo taken with knife in hand... and she said, hey, this cake says 'WOW'

Margaret is no longer with us and so looking at this cake brings back lovely memories of this Godly woman.

Gaming Table Cake

I really enjoyed making this fruit cake, covering it in marzipan then using Regalice to cover the cake and make the onyx ashtray.

The playing cards, dice, cigarette and ash were made out of icing that sets hard and I painted them with paste colouring with a little water.

Pink Panther Cake

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I was asked to make this cake for a friends son for his birthday. I made a terrible mistake and cringe every time I see it because I stupidly used some of my own homemade jam to stick the marzipan to this sponge cake, and I presume because it didn't have the preservatives of bought jams, the cake started to go mouldy. So be warned!

Crinoline Lady

I think this was actually the first cake I made on my own back in about 1983. I was shown how to make it when I went on a coach trip to the Mary Ford shop in Hythe with a friend and a group from college.

The sponge cake was baked in a 'bell tin' and covered in Regalice. I had great fun decorating it.

The teenage doll had her legs removed so that it didn't damage the cake.

Doug's Birthday Cake

This was an unusual birthday cake I was asked to make for Doug.  It was good fun.

A sponge cake covered in marzipan and Regalice.

Postman Pat Birthday Cake

Another fun sponge cake I made and covered with marzipan and Regalice.

Postman Pat was modeled out of Regalice and I painted him with paste colouring and water.  I used cocktail sticks to attach him to the cake.

Frederick's Birthday Cake

This is one of the first cakes I ever made and it was for a gentleman who was very involved with amateur dramatics.

It was a fruit cake covered in marzipan and Regalice. The flowers and masks were made from icing that sets hard. I used powdered food colouring for the flowers and paste colouring with water to paint the faces on the masks.

Anne's 60th Sweet Pea Birthday Cake

Anne had bought a plain ready iced cake for her birthday and asked me to decorate it.

She had a party and it was soon evident from the number of people saying they were going to attend that there would not be enough cake to go around, so I made an extra tier.

I covered the cake with sweet peas I made out of icing that sets hard and added powdered colouring directly to the paste before modelling it.

Quick Christmas Cake

I wanted to make a thank you Christmas cake for Jenny who so kindly looks after my gorgeous dog when I go to work.

Struggling for time, I had to come up with something that was quick to make.

I baked a round fruit cake and cut it in two, placing them one in front of the other, making sure the one part was much bigger than the other.

I covered the cake with marzipan and Regalice, sprinkled the cake with edible glitter and then used cutters to cut out the reindeer and trees, colouring them with powered colouring and sprinkling edible glitter over them as well.  The tall trees were attached with cocktail sticks.  It was such a quick cake and a bit of fun.  Jenny loved the shape and in actual fact she gave one part of the cake to a neighbour as a gift.... she had more than enough for herself.

Kate & Al's Wedding Cake

This was the first time I had ever made a 'topsy turvy' cake.

It was a three tier fruit cake covered in marzipan and Regalice, with a double ribbon around the outside edge of the cakes.

The roses I made out of icing that hardens.

Funeral Cake

This is a sad cake, sad not only because it was for a funeral, but because it was originally made for a lovely couple as the bottom tier of their golden wedding anniversary cake.

Unfortunately Ann died before the celebratory tea and therefore as the cake was already made, marzipaned and iced, I laid aside the golden roses that should have adorned this cake and instead made a single red rose out of icing as a symbol of love for this lovely Godly woman.

Nina & Graham's Wedding Cake

This cake was designed by my daughter and made by me for her wedding.

I did however put on one detail she did not ask for... the stylised initials they used on their wedding invitations.

These initials were made using teal diamante. Of course I had to give a warning about removing them thoroughly before cutting up the cake.

It was easier to get this deep teal colour than I thought it would be.  I bought Regalice that was already coloured royal blue and then added a lot of teal coloured powdered food colouring and fortunately it worked.