26 September 2012

Cakery Bakes

Seeing as Halloween is coming up quite soon I wanted to share with you what I made for my son's party last year. I had great fun playing around with making spooky things, but didn't want to scare a house full of 3 year olds!

Black Velvet




These black velvets went down a treat with the adults that came to the party, they are simply a red velvet cake with black food colouring topped off with blood red cream cheese frosting. I opted for bat decorations that I bought at my local cake suppliers (Items for Sugarcraft in Kenley) to finish off the rose piping.











Witches Fingers & Gingerbread Skeletons
These Witches fingers were dripping with royal icing blood & I think the almond that I used for the gnarly nail made them look particularly gory! Both the skeletons and fingers were made from gingerbread with a good kick of ginger to warm things up a bit and iced with royal icing.





Vanilla Mummy Cupcakes

All the children loved these Mummy cupcakes! They were simple vanilla cupcakes with piped frosting & a black sugarpaste disc for the spooky face, they were a big hit with the children.








Rainbow Cake






The last bake that I'm going to share with you is this rainbow cake, it was my first multi-coloured cake & I was very happy with the result- a definite wow factor when the cake was cut! I decided against the traditional spread of colours and went for a random order, a 7 layer cake is on my to do list so watch this space!

16 September 2012

Cakery Bakes

I thought it was about time to update my Bloggle, its been neglected for far too long & I have pledged to keep it up to date. Over my next few posts I am going to share with you some of my favourite bakes that I've created for friends and family, with one or two requests from friends of friends. So here goes...


Last Christmas a close friend of mine was having her son christened so I offered to make his cake as a present. I love doing this probably because I get carte blanche on how the cakes can be decorated. I of course asked my dear friend if she had anything in mind, she said anything goes. Huzzah! So, being near to Christmas a penguin family was created, cakes made and decorated along with 24 snowflake cupcakes.

The large cake was made of three layers of lemon drizzle sponge sandwiched together with lemon buttercream. I placed the penguin family on icebergs made from blending together white and pale blue sugarpaste. The snowflake cupcakes were simple but delicious vanilla cupcakes topped with vanilla buttercream with sugarpaste decorations.





10 September 2012

I'm sorry...

Dear Blog,
I am sorry. For too long now I have ignored you, I have chosen to Tweet or update my Facebook page. I now solemnly declare to keep you updated and be truly loved and fed with delicious pictures of scrumptious goodies.
Yours,
Mrs Cakery x

P.S. Here's a peace offering: a beautiful Red Velvet cupcake bursting with deliciousness x