My Mini Christmas Cakes

 

 

 

I am really thrilled at how well my Mini Christmas Cakes have turned out.  I was in Lakeland (www.lakeland.co.uk) and saw these mini domed cake tins and thought how great they would look as Mini Christmas Cakes.  They are perfect as gifts for friends and family or perhaps to give to teachers to say Thank You.  I used a Mary Berry Christmas Cake receipe which is in last years Great British Bake Off Receipe Book.  I covered the cake with marzipan and white fondant and made some Red Glittery Stars for one cake and Holly with Berries for the other.

 

 

 

 

 

They are £6.50 each and come beautifully gift wrapped and delivered to your door!

 

 

 

Christening Cupcakes

I was asked by a lovely lady called Polly to provide her with some cakes for the Christening of her baby son.  Polly had contacted me after looking at my website and asked for a variety of delicious cakes.  These included some fluffy Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Frosting and we decided to use pastel colours and I made a variety of fondant figures to put on the top.

 

I made some little ducks, very cute teddy bears and some little tractors and I was very pleased at how they turned out!

 

 

 

 

 

I also made my Strawberry Layer Cake, Melting Moments and Rocky Road Cupcakes

 

 

 

 

A great selection I'm sure you'd agree!

Williams Superhero Birthday Party

 

 

I was asked to make some Batman Superhero Cupcakes for my friends little boy William.  It was his fifth birthday and he wanted 'Chocolate and Batman'.  Luckily his Daddy is an artist and he made me the Batman template to enable me to cut out the faces.  Quite tricky as these are small cupcakes and so I cut out Batmans mask in black fondant and then his chin with pink fondant. 

 

I stuck the chin to the mask to make the whole face.  When the fondant was dry I used an edible pen and drew on Batmans mouth.  I used tiny pieces of white fondant for the eyes and Hey Presto there was Batman!  I used a mini Black Cookie Cutter for the bats and used Royal Icing to write 'POW'on the other cupcakes.

 

 

 

 

William was very pleased with his Cupcakes as were all his friends!