Happy Birthday Lee!

Well here is the annual unveiling of Lee's birthday cake hehe!!

This year Lee wanted a Bus Pirate for his birthday......what's a Bus Pirate you say?! Well don't ask because I don't know either.....:) Anyhoo based on this theme I decided to make Pirate Bus for the cake and here is the result.

The cake underneath was supposed to be red velvet although it's not really red at all I think I needed gel food colouring but anyway it's basically chocolate cake and chocolate butter cream, and I've not really done too much cake constructing like this and so I was pretty pleased to build up four layers with a little bit of tweaking here and there and then I covered it all with chocolate butter cream.

Then I covered it with the red icing which I was pleased to get done I was expecting to get in a massive mess....the corners are a bit messy but it mostly worked OK. I'd already cut out a little space for the wheels to go as well -so I added some icing wheels and windows and I used a cutter for the skull and crossbones. I made some chocolate coins although they set a bit weird but I'm sure they'll taste fine, and then the other little chocolates I bought already made.Finally I had candles and flags from the pirate party we had a few years ago. Hope it tastes yummy!

Let It Snow!

Well here is this years Christmas cake.......a plethora of snowflakes.......I bought some new snowflake cutters for the job and they worked brilliantly! Best of all I got to cover it all in edible glitter......lovely :)

Happy Birthday Lee!

Here is this year's birthday cake for Lee. I am hoping it is obvious that it is a circuit board, and it turned out way better than I thought.......very pleased with the edible metallic paints I bought and also made good use of some liquorice allsorts, dolly mixtures and strawberry laces......whatever will I do with the rest of the packets hehe! Oh and the cake underneath is a Madeira cake yum yum!!

A bit late for Halloween but....

I made some Halloween cakes......I tried the same last year and found they got stuck in the moulds but I bought some cake release spray and that works much better...although they still required a bit of shaking to get out......and I made some choccie cookies as well..... I've also got some jellies in the fridge as we speak using the same Halloween moulds.....I know Halloween has passed but I wanted to make some fun shapes and experiment to see if the Jelly will come out OK.....I used some blue food colouring but it actually came out more green than blue.....

Here are a couple of photos from our Olympics party......which was ace! I made loads of cakes and a cheesecake too! And my sister and my mom did....although I haven't got a photo of my mom's cakes d'oh! We watched the Olympics on a big screen in my sisters garage which was even acer!!! woohoo

Bonjourno!

Check out these cards I made....

The top one is a Michael Powell image.....when I stamped it I thought it didn't come out very well but once I finished colouring it in I was really pleased.....using a plethora of Promarkers!

For the next one I used a new set of stamps....can't remember the company because I threw the packaging away d'oh! Plus the little boat is a Clarity stamp. I brayered the background....as usual forgetting to put in a moon......oh well I carried on anyway.....I stamped on the images in black archival and then I used a nib to colour in the trees a little further with distress inks......then I painted the red flowers.....it looks a lot more purple overall in real life......I really liked the effect of painting over the flowers that I've already used it again on a half finished card.....

And if that wasn't enough I baked a raspberry and blueberry crumble topped cake over the weekend too.......if only I could stay at home and do stuff like this all the time......!

This was last years Christmas cake.....I saw them demonstrating how to make the trees on Create and Craft and so it inspired me.....I also cut out the candy canes with a cutter and added the little stripes of white icing

Here were the cakes and chocolates I made for my boyfriend for Valentine's day that's just gone.

I went for chocolate overload......chocolate cake, chocolate buttercream and chocolate decorations.....oh and I added banana too.....and I can tell you they tasted yummy!!