Flower Topper

I was asked to make a flower topper for someone to use on a cake they were making themselves. She wanted it really colourful and asked for mainly roses with a few filler flowers. 

Cream Rose

To fit this brief I made roses in blue, pink, purple and cream. I also made some white jasmine and some rose leaves. I felt that any more flower varieties would overwhelm the bunch and make it look too fussy. 

I arranged these in a line bunch in order to decorate the middle of the cake and create a nice centre piece. 

Finished Flowers

Along with these flowers I also made a few extra so they could use some on the edge of the cake and balance out the cake. 

Smaller bunch for the edge

What do you think? 

Finished Bunch

Top View

Don't forget that I can make just the topper if you'd like to make the cake yourself or have a cake that you want to add something else to. I make the flowers to your specification and size. 

Pink Rose

Vintage Lace Cake

I recently purchased some cake lace mats and cake lace to try out on some cakes and to practice for an order. I also needed to create a display cake for the lovely Annabelle Jane Cake school. So I decided to combine these 2 things and create a 3 tiered cake with lace. 

I used the Claire Bowman lace and mixed it up to the instructions, filled the mats and dried it in the oven. I found the cake really easy to use and it cake out beautifully, it's a simple way of creating really intricate detailing. 

Lace

I covered the dummies in blue icing, piled the cakes up and placed them on the board. Using water I stuck the lace around each layer of the cake. I carefully joined the lace together to form a a smooth join and the pattern matches up on the edges. 

To decorate the cake I made some 5 petal flowers, in white, and stuck these on the cake. I would have liked the flowers to have more shape to them but I'm having a bit of a trouble getting my flowers to dry at the moment, the dining room is too cold, so I just used them as is. I used some royal icing to stick them on and to fill the centres. 

Finished cake

Overall I'd say this isn't one of my most detailed cakes or most intricate, however, I think the effect is simple and elegant. It gives a good example of the lace and I'm pleased with how it turned out. This cake will be going up to Maidstone on Tuesday for their window display. I'm really pleased to have been given this opportunity to display at the Annabelle Jane Cake School, I've done all my courses at this shop and have learnt so much from their expertise. I'm honoured to be able to display these skills there. 

Simple White Roses

For my final display cake I went back to the flowers theme but decided to make it much simpler. I wanted to introduce a little colour, but subtly, so I covered the 3 tiers in a pale blue icing. I used 3 dummies, 10", 8" and 6", on a 14" drum. I covered the drum in pale blue icing as well and trimmed everything with cream ribbon. 

I made some cream and white roses for the top and side of the cake. On top I created a topper with rose leaves as the base and then 3 large roses on top of this. 

Roses on the top

Part way down the cake, on each tier, I added a small rose bud and then on the board at the bottom I placed another full rose. 

Roses on each tier

Finally I placed some rose petals scattered over the cake, these were cream with a hint of pink at the tips. 

Petals scattered on the cake

Overall the effect of this cake is very simple but effective. I like making cakes like this and I hope that it'll inspire some brides in the coming weeks. 

Finished Cake

Beth's Cake

My little sister got married last week and she asked me to make a few cakes for them. The first one was for the getting ready lunch, all she said to me was that she wanted a chocolate fudge cake and I could practice whatever I wanted for it. So I found out what flowers she was having and decorated it to match, cream roses and blue hydrangeas. 

Hydrangeas and Rose

I made an 8" rich chocolate cake and filled it with chocolate ganache. I then covered the cake in white sugar paste, with 2 layers so I got a good finish on the cake. I made some cream roses for the top of the cake and over 100 hydrangeas. I had great trouble with these as the petals kept snapping off, I tried several methods and still wasn't overly pleased with the final bunch but it was the best I could do at that moment in time. 

Finished Cake

I trimmed the cake with a thick pale blue ribbon and then used a cream thinner ribbon to add another dimension. Finally I made a bow for the front of the cake. 

Ribbon Bow

Overall I was happy with the cake, the covering was good and I got a good overall finish. I would have liked the flowers to be more perfect and to have kept their petals but I'm glad that I didn't attempt it for a 3rd time. The cake tasted very nice and I got some nice compliments. Maybe some of those people could write reviews for my facebook page?