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Purple lace cake at The Grand Connaught Rooms

On April 14, 2013 / Cake design, Home, Photography / 4 Comments

Purple Lace Cake at The Grand Connaught Rooms The wedding season is here, hooray! Now all the sketches in the book can come to life, and here is the first I’m blogging (need to catch up). Being in London means I (or we) get to deliver wedding cakes to all sorts of different venues, some are stately, modern, simple, ornate and sometimes we’re even lucky enough to only have to deliver 10 minutes away to The Grand Connaught Rooms in Covent Garden. With it’s high ceilings, gorgeous chequered reception floor and beautiful chandeliers, The Grand Connaught Rooms is a popular

Funfair Wedding Cake – Candystripe

On January 12, 2013 / Cake design, Home, Photography / Leave a comment

Candy stripe, funfair, pale pink, baby blue, ruffles; it a description of cute, distilled. I was so excited to start on this fairground cake project. My original sketch was actually slightly different, it featured a marshmallow style heart and ruffled swags. The ruffles sort of got transferred to the cake board which, I warn you in advance, took a long time. I did actually make it and attached it but it didn’t look right so I opted for a fabric, ruffle type flower and the addition of stars. The ‘Roll Up’ was hand-cut and stuck to the plaque which was

Mint Cioccolata Calda

On December 27, 2012 / Home, Photography, Recipes / Leave a comment

If you haven’t had a real Italian hot chocolate, you need to get on this chocolate gravy train. And a thick chocolate gravy, as unappealing as it sounds, is a pretty accurate description of the feel of this drink. Its a perfect warm up in the winter weather, so cosy up to your central heating with it. This is not an after dinner drink, this is dinner! After I have this I can’t fit anything else in. And that is truly a feat of the most epic proportions. The recipe is supposed to serve two, but I can’t finish a

Vintage Lace Wedding Cake {London}

On December 20, 2012 / Cake design, Home, Photography / Leave a comment

So not long after saying I preferred the piped lace style, I have a bride who is in love with a cake by Cotton and crumbs, based on a design by Peggy Porschen. You still following me? Its an ivory cake with white lace applique, everyone loves white on white wedding cakes. Very romantic and very vintage. I tend to deliver cakes assembled, so this four tier was taken as is. No, I am way to feeble and out of shape to lift cakes like this. My hefty husband does my deliveries, sometimes alone, but today I decided to accompany

Russian Nautical Cake

On December 17, 2012 / Cake design, Photography / 1 Comment

The last cake of 2012 had a Russian, nautical theme. The beautiful bride was Russian and both her and her new husband are both keen sailors. Their wedding cermeony was even close to the River Thames! I drew up the sketch on the computer and let her make any corrections or modifications at the consultation. She added the swag piping and gold detailing which made it even more regal. The top and bottom tiers were Vanilla bean cake with berry Italian meringue and the middle tier was dark chocolate with a caramel Italian buttercream. The swags are piped by hand

Top 10 Wedding Cake Trends For 2013

On December 3, 2012 / Cake design, Photography / 9 Comments

Now that the last wedding cake of 2012 has been delivered (wooooooop!), I’m thinking about what 2013 has in store. These are my 10 predictions for wedding cakes over 2013 for us in the UK in no particular order. Drumroll please. 1. Succulents These are taking the wedding world by storm! (I’ve always wanted say that). But seriously, these are very popular, and like quite a few of our trends it started in the US of A. Real or sugar they make bouquets and cakes look eco chic, even if you have no interest in the saving environment what so

Colouful 50′s styled wedding shoot {London Wedding Suppliers}

On November 30, 2012 / Cake design, Photography / 1 Comment

My first (and only!) styled shoot back in April 2012 went better than I expected. It was a collaboration with some really brilliant and talented London wedding suppliers. It was a modern 50′s styled shoot, colourful with lots of flowers and pom poms. It was blogged by Kat from Rock and Roll Bride (woot!), featured on Amy Atlas’ Sweet Designs and has been round the net since then. It was my dream to be featured by Amy Atlas, like seriously I’m having palpitations just thinking about it again. Above is one of the original sketches of the table. I think

Chewy white chocolate callebaut cookies

On November 14, 2012 / Photography, Recipes / 3 Comments

Its been a rather extended break but I’ve been working on some exciting projects and have some cool stuff in store for next year so keep your eyes peeled. I’ve got a great post I’m working on, my prediction on wedding cake trends for 2013. But before I do a nostradamus, I wanted to share a favourite recipe of mine. These are the softest chewiest white chocolate chip cookies I’ve re-created in my kitchen so far. I normally use Callebaut couveture chips in them, which aren’t really chocolate chips because they don’t have the additives to help keep their shape

How I flavour white chocolate ganache

On October 9, 2012 / Cake design, Photography / 6 Comments

Look at that cute little thing! I think 6 inch cakes are my favourite size cake. Add some pink and chocolate to the mix, and its a sure fire way to get me cakexcited (like what I did there?). This is a rich chocolate cake, filled with strawberry Italian meringue buttercream and covered in strawberry ganache. I use a white chocolate ganache for all my cakes that aren’t chocolate cakes, or that don’t have a chocolate/ganache filling. This was the first time flavouring my ganache, though I’ve thought about it in the past. I imagine dry flavours like coffee or

The easy way to make your own butter

On October 1, 2012 / Photography, Recipes / Leave a comment

Following the 1 litre of cream I used for the eclairs (It wasn’t the entire bottle!) I grabbed the opportunity to try making my own butter. Yes, butter is made with cream. In my youth I imagined fermenting bubbling cream, and maidens churning for hours in giant wooden vats. Clearly I didn’t have the faintest idea how butter was actually made. After googling ‘what to do with over-whipped cream?’ a long while ago, my chubby milk maiden fantasy was laid to rest. So that’s how you make butter! I had a epiphany and imagined making fresh butter every morning with

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