For someone close

As you all know I have been going to classes for the past few weeks and have learnt a lot of things and have lots of ideas. My husband for the last few weeks I think has been quite lost judging by the texts I received whilst I was at these classes. He made a special request in one of them and as he has been working away from home this weekend, I have made this cake. Those of you who know him will know why he has requested this particular design.

A Decorated Cake Dummy

I have been going to cake decorating classes over the last few weeks and what I have learnt has given me lots of ideas. So, as I have some cake dummies I decided to try my had at a two tier cake which could be used I think for an engagement, anniversary or even perhaps a wedding and perhaps add another tier to it. I am quite please with what I have created, what do you think? (Jen if you see this, this is what I was hinting at)

Another Year

Well here we are again another year gone by and another year older, it is my birthday today and I have a really nice day. As usual when we have birthdays at work cakes are taken in, those of you who know me will know that I never buy them but have a great time making them, here are what I took in today and there is nothing left (Don't worry Jen if you read this a piece was saved for you, it is in your top draw at work). There was a chocolate orange sponge cake which I made an orange syrup for and drizzled over whilst it was cooling before finishing off with chocolate filling and topping with grated orange zest on the top. Then there was a lemon sponge cake also soaking in a syrup flavoured with lemon and topped with lemon butter cream and filled with lemon curd. Finally as if that wasn't enough I made some vanilla cupcakes which I then covered in a lime and coconut butter cream topping. Is your mouth watering yet, they smelt heavenly when the lids were taken off the boxes.

Practising

After taking in the models I made at my class last week a work colleague offered to buy them off me. I explained I wasn't selling them as they were the first ones I had ever made and wanted to keep them for display. When finding out why he wanted them I said I would make another model for him. apparently his young grandson (2 years old I think) had had a fall and broken his leg and would now be in traction for quite a while. As I do not have many colour paste yet to colour my own I decided to use some yellow fondant I had left over from a cake I made for someone else. here is a copy of what I have done, hope I can get it to work in once piece.

3rd Lesson

Here we are and it is Thursday again, another week nearly over. Yesterday evening I had my third lesson in cake decorating and we were shown how to make a Monkey, Elephant and Teddy. The monkey was done flat on a board, I did not enjoy doing that one nor was I impressed with the result so I am not showing that to you. However I will share the other two with you I really enjoyed doing them although when I started I wasn't so sure but once the detail went on they soon came to life.

A special shawl for baby to be

Well I finally got around to finishing this, I have been rather busy with my baking as you will be able to see from earlier posts. I will soon be getting ready for my Christmas orders. I have used this crochet pattern before, it is rather simple but is quite effective. I added a shell edge in pink and added a couple of flowers to one corner,this has given it a totally different look.

Pink Flowers Birthday Cake

I was up early today, it was just as well as my son asked me yesterday to make a cake for his girlfriends sisters birthday. She is staying with them for a few days I believe. He said it had to have pink in it so did this one.