Cake of the Week - Cakes for Boys

Once again I have an entry for Helen's Casacostello Cake of the Week blog. This week I'm bending the rules slightly (it's OK I asked first!) and I'm entering cakes that Mr P made.

Every now and them he gets an idea in his head and comes up with something amazing!

Last week it was Sabbuteo cupcakes!!

He painstakingly made each little figure with attention to detail way beyond my patience levels and came up with these

 The writing relates to some of Mr P's Twitter followers who were awarded very special #cakeawards

I think he did an amazing job for someone who says he's not creative, imagine what he could do if he was!! ;oD

Pop over to CasaCostello & see the other entries.

Cake of the week - Lauren's Birthday Cake

Once again I have the opportunity to join in with Helen's Cake Of The Week link on her fabulous blog CasaCostello I linked up a couple of weeks ago for Megan's Birthday where I not only made my first fully iced birthday cake, but a two tier one at that!
Thankfully Lauren's request was simpler, a chocolate cake with blue feathers on! So that's what she got!

As usual I left it until very late on the night before her birthday to decorate it and didn't really have an idea of how I was going to decorate it until I started. It's fair to say it was less than perfect. The chocolate icing didn't behave quite like the white I'd used for Megan's cake and it wasn't nearly as forgiving, hence the double ribbon round the sides.
Lauren had chosen the feathers so I popped those on, along with her candles and her name but it looked far too plain. I decided on butterflies with a couple of little flowers and it just kind of grew from there.

Helen made some lovely comments on my last cake, but this one has confirmed to me that iced cakes are not my strong point!! Maybe on day in the future when I have more time (who am I kidding, right??!!) I'll learn the art of decorating celebration cakes, until then they'll be for the children only and I'll concentrate on cakes for the shop!

But most importantly the Birthday girl loved it! Happy 11th Birthday Lauren! xxx

Pop over to see Helen's last wedding cake for a while, talk about go out with a bang! It's amazing!

Cake of the week

I don't always have an entry to Helen's Cake of The Week Blog but this week I have two!!! (well. sort of!)

The first are my pink & pretty Cupcakes made for MB's Birthday that I blogged here. She turned 8 and she was really pleased with them

And next up are my Raspberry and White Chocolate profiteroles. An idea I came up with a while ago but the sauce gave me trouble. This weekend I cracked it. You can read here how Mr P and I got it sorted and made these beautifully light little mouthfuls filled with a pretty pink raspberry cream......Mmmmm!

So there you are, not 1 but 2 and one not technically a cake!
Make sure you pop over to Casa Costello to see the other entries too.

I'm a little horse!

This is my first entry to Cake of the week and I was a little reluctant to share, simply because it's not up to the amazing standard that I usually see presented. But with a little gentle persuasion from some lovely Tweeters I have been brave and put my entry forward.

The cake was made for my daughter L's 10th birthday. She's a lovely girl and rarely asks for anything out of the ordinary but this year she asked for a cake, made by me. I was a little stressed by this because I was just getting back into the full swing of work after the summer holidays and all the new routines that go with 'back to school' season. The best I could do was offer to make the cake on the weekend after her birthday. I simply couldn't fit it in during the week. She was happy with this as not only did she get two cakes, but she got to help make one and it was only a day late, so not too bad!

Genoese made in a 2lb pudding basin!

You had to slice the cake in 3 and sandwich back together with chocolate butter icing. It needed to be a plain cake because the rest of it was made up of chocolate butter icing, chocolate fondant icing and fizzy cola laces!
Once we'd made all the body parts(legs, head and saddle) from chocolate fondant it was pretty easy to assemble.

Neigh!!!!

I usually stick to what I call everyday cakes and I've only ever made two novelty cakes before this one. I have to say we did have a lot of fun making Neddy and he didn't actually take all that long.
And most importantly of all, the birthday girl was very pleased with him. So I guess the Twitter lovelies were right. It's not all about perfection. Good job really!!