Dartboard Cake

A dartboard cake.  3 8" round cakes sandwiched with buttercream and blackcurrant jam.  Covered with black sugarpaste.  Dartboard stencil used to pin on the design and then white chocolate icing used with green and red sugarpaste.  Wire has been piped on in white with numbers done freehand.

Retirement Cake

A Retirement Cake.  Two tray baked lemon sponges sandwiched with buttercream and blackcurrent jam.  Board is covered in Ivory sugarpaste with stars crimped around all edges which have then been painted yellow.  Cake is covered in a lighter Ivory sugarpaste.

A sewing machine made from Mexican Modelling Paste (MMP), sprayed with silver lustre paint and with "singer" written in edible pen.

A Patchework quilt made using Patchwork Cutters and then squares painted with colour/lustre dusts.

Cauliflower, potato and carrots made from leftover sugarpaste and dusted with black dusting powder for soil.

A New Baby Cake

Cake is 2 madeira cakes filled and stacked.  Covered with baby blue sugarpaste.  Stork and clouds cut using patchwork cutters and stork coloured by painting and use of lustre dust (pearl ivory).  Beading piped round the base and message piped on (freehand) in royal icing.  My best piece of work so far I think.

Intermediate Course - College Project 1 - Piped Basket and flowers

Basket made using sugarpaste template raised and dried hard. Then basketweave piped on top and decorated with flowers cut using blossom and calyx cutters.  Leaves piped individually (they're a bit rubbish).

Assorted Cupcakes

Assorted Cupcakes.  Topped with sugarpaste and decorated with designs made from Mexican Modelling Paste using Patchwork cutters.  Some sprayed with lustre spray or lustre dusts

A New Home Cake

Board is covered with a light green to represent grass with flowers and a pathway.  Cake has a decorating man on top with rolls of wallpaper, a pasting brush and a tin of paint.  Smudges of black paint are scattered on the cake and man.

New Home Cake

New Home
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Mother's Day Cake

College Project 5 - Cupcakes

College Project 4 - Marzipan Fruits (and a nut)

Included: Pineapple, Raspberry, Pear, Apricot, Lemon, Banana, Orange, Strawberry, Acorn, Apple, Plum and Damson

Practice Project - St Patrick's Day Cupcakes

College Project 3 - Easter Bonnet

Fruit cake made in pudding bowl (wasn't quite cooked but oh well!).  Covered with marzipan and sugarpaste.  Butterflies cut from Mexican Modelling Paste and sprayed with silver lustre spray then glittered.  Flowers cut using calys cutter.

Project 3 - St David's Day Cake

A practise cake made to celebrate St David's Day.  Dragon made using a biscuit cutter

College Projects - 2 Modelling

First college modelling project.  It's a bear in a bed.  Bear is marzipan, pillow and bed are sugarpaste.  My first real modelling attempt and I was quite pleased with the outcome.

Project 2 - Practise cake

A practice cake made to practise covering cakes (and to use some some ready made grren sugarpaste).  Daisys made using plunger daisy cutter

College Projects - 1

The first project completed at my basic cake decorating course.  This was the first cake completed at week 5 (of a 10 week course).  Icing was coloured pink and cake and board were covered.  Crimped around the edge with a curved scallop crimper.  Hello Kitty design made using a template drawn on to greaseproof paper and built up in 3D.