Well, living in the Heart of the New Forest, I knew it wouldn’t be long before I was asked to make some pony themed cakes! The order came in for a little girls 6th Birthday cake – pony themed big cake with 26 cupcakes for the party guests to take home.
This cake was a real joint effort between my Hubs and I. He made the dragon and the little creature sitting on top of the castle (apparently a character from a computer game!). He also helped me loads with the construction of the cake as he’s far more suited to structural engineering than I am!!
The cave is made out of Rice Krispie Treats (rice krispie/marshmallow mix which is very pliable and often used in cake decorating). Inside the cave is a lovely new jar filled with chocolate eggs – this gives a little extra surprise but more importantly, is holding the cake up!!
The cake itself is a 5″, 4 layered chocolate mud cake with mint chocolate buttercream and decorated with fondant to look like a castle. The walls of the castle took forever to cover – but luckily, Hubs came to the rescue again and helped out! The grass is made from buttercream and everything else is handmade with fondant.
Joe was delighted with his cake, and Hubs and I are very proud of our joint effort!
This cake would be priced at £60
This was an order I did a couple of weeks ago, for Tai, who had just celebrated his 16th Birthday and who’s main hobby is rugby. His Auntie ordered them for him, to be delivered by post! Luckily, I’d already had two successful postal trials and the customer was happy to take the risk with these too. I’m pleased to say that Royal Mail did a fantastic job and the cakes were delivered safe and sound to one very happy recipient! The little rugby player actually started out with legs too – but because the cupcakes needed to go in pods for postal delivery, I had to chop the legs off – poor thing! Note to self – next time make the person a bit smaller!
This box of 6 cupcakes is priced at £12.00 (+ £6.00 for p&p)
I am SO pleased with how this cake turned out! This was only my second attempt at a tiered cake, so I was feeling slightly nervous about this one – but having practiced the week before on my little boys Birthday cake, it was actually fairly straight-forward. Just takes lots of careful planning and preparations.
This cake was for Imogen, for her Baptism and then her 11th birthday, two days later. During the initial discussions with her Mum, we found a couple of cakes via Google that she really liked, and I said I could use elements from both cakes. These are the two images I was working with, for inspiration. We particularly loved the cake by the very talented Maylene, so used that as the main starting point. But we also loved the colours in the other cake – hence the addition of some pale green to my design.
*http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3064/2543838624_c392a73dee.jpg
*http://www.cakesbymay.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=125260711
I really, really enjoyed making this cake as I love working with flowers and girly colours. Thankfully, Imogen and her Mum and Sister all loved the cake too 
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This is a 6″ and 10″ tiered cake. The top tier is lemon sponge with lemon buttercream and lemon curd filling. The bottom tier is Vanilla sponge with vanilla buttercream and raspberry jam filling. This cake is priced at £75.
This is the cake I made for my little boy’s 2nd Birthday! There were all sorts of themes I could’ve used, but I really needed to tackle a two-tier cake as practice for my first proper tiered cake order the following week. So, being the typical little boy, Eddie loves all things vehicle related – so Planes, Trains and Automobiles seemed like the perfect theme! My lovely Hubby is starting to get more involved with my cake making, and can often be found helping me out with filling and crumb-coating the odd cake. So, when it came to making the vehicles, he opted to do the plane himself. He could’ve gone down the cutesy, cartoon aeroplane route, but decided he wanted to have a go at making something more life like! I think he did a fantastic job, an Eddie absolutely loved it. The more simplistic cars and trains are all my own handiwork!
This is a 6″ & 8″ tiered cake. The top tier is chocolate mud cake with chocolate buttercream and the bottom tier is Vanilla sponge with jam and buttercream. This cake would be priced at £60.
Box of 6 = £11.00
Orders are now being taken for our Easter range of Cupcakes. Here we have a selection of 6 Easter/Spring themed cupcakes, available in Vanilla, Lemon or Chocolate flavours. The Easter Bunny and the Easter Chick are both hand made and fully edible.
These are priced at £11.00 for this box of 6. However, if you would like a different mix then please let me know.
The individual prices are:
I LOVE this cake!!! Definitely my most favourite cake to date! I was asked to make a cake with a duck on the top, and as usual, I did a Google Image search and pulled together a few ideas for the customer. This was one that absolutely stood out! If the customer hadn’t gone for it, I was planning to attempt it for my sons 2nd Birthday!
Anyway, it’s based on a design from the Wilton 2010 Yearbook (http://www.wilton.com/blog/wp-content/themes/wilton/images/bathtime-buddies-cake.jpg). The original cake is a two-tier cake, but as the customer only wanted a small cake, we opted to stand the ducks on a board rather than another cake. The cake itself is a 6″ Chocolate mud cake with chocolate buttercream. The ducks are all hand made with fondant, and the four at the bottom also have a cake pop stick in them for added support. I just hope they hold!! If there’s a next time, I’ll add some additional support in the middle.
In theory, this cake could be replicated with any animal (within reason!). So if you’d like a dog, cat, rabbit, horse version etc – just give me a shout and I’ll see what I can do! I’ve had some fantastic feedback about this cake, so we know it really does have the WOW! factor )
If you need more cake, I could of course sit this on a second tier!
The above cake, as pictured would be £45.
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Cupcake orders, which of course, is fantastic! We are a cupcake company after all! Here’s a selection of some of the cupcakes that have gone out recently.
These are some Wedding Samples I did with a Baby Blue and Butterflies theme.
Spring is in the air! Lemon Cupcakes with a Spring feel
These were a Thank You gift for a friend who helped us out with a Fridge/Freezer. I'm loving my new Tree mould - fits perfectly with Forest Cupcakes!
Simplicity itself - Coffee cupcakes with coffee buttercream and a few chocolatey treats to top them off
These 6 ‘Rainbow Rose’ cupcakes were delivered to a friends Mother, as a surprise Birthday gift. Available in Lemon, Chocolate, Vanilla or Coffee with hand-made fondant roses, these are priced at £2.00 each.
One of my friends has a nephew who has just found out he has a place at Grammar school. My friend wanted to send him some cupcakes as a ‘Well Done’ for all his hard work – and could they be ‘school’ themed.
I absolutely love just getting the sugarpaste out and having a little play to see what I can come up with – just like play-doh and plasticine! Apparently these were really well received by Evan, who’s only negative comment was that he had to give one to his brother!
This box of 6 is priced at £14.00 (6 x chocolate cupcakes with buttercream @ £1.50 + £5.00 for the set of personalised toppers)
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