Cake Note 40: "My idea of exercise is a good, brisk sit" Phyllis Diller

Can you remember her? I used to watch her with my mother, she was SO funny! I have to agree with her  views on exercise though.....I seem to be getting a few brisk sits...it's usually after I have had a LONG stand baking and icing cakes! Honestly, I never got so tired when I was running a busy ward!

The point of this of course is my latest cake. A 10 inch madeira cake with the briefest of instructions which I had to DRAG out of the owner....needs to be a Gymnastic cake....yeah..colours? Oh anything....girl/boy ?,,,girl...name???? oh yeah... she's 10

Well I got to the bottom of it, did my own thing and here it is.....I know NOTHING about gymnastics or what 10 year old little gymnasts do....but my friend the world wide web helped me enormously! I'm quite fond of the final result - I hope the vague owner is:)

Thank you for looking....2 of my favourite cakes to do next...Fruit cakes with flowers:) Roll on...

Cake Note 39: "I never worry about diets - the only carrots that interest me are the carots in Diamonds!" Mae West

Diamonds.....30th birthday girl with no diamonds on her fingers.....

Well she has some Diamonds for friends - one in particular, my lovely daughter! ' Mum I need a CAKE'...again! She's got loads of friends and it seems to have become a trend that she gives them a cake for their birthday...lovely idea!

Anyway, I can't aford diamonds for her friend, but, I did make  Tiffany cake box with a few 'diamonds' on it!

Not QUITE the box shape I wanted as it was difficult to do the top bit...so I improvised. Hope she likes it - Happy Birthday :)

Cake Note 38: Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." Danny Kaye

Never a truer word!

Well I am sorry to say I am a lapsed Blogger - haven't posted in ages and I apologise for that. Even though my lonely follower is the only one who comments!

I have been so busy finishing my Level 2 City & Guilds Sugar Craft and Decoration course, I've hardly had time to turn round.  I've had cakes coming out of my ears and to be honest, I think I have 'thrown LOADS of paint:).

So, just a few of my latest  creations in the cake world and the odd bit of modelling and flower making too. If I repeat myself, I'll say sorry now......but when you're slinging paint on your canvas, you sometimes forget you've already posted that cake:)

Soon be the longest day - hope you all enjoy your paint throwing:)

The LAST foootball cake I intend to make

Modelling day with my Tutor -

My PIECE DE RESISTANCE! My lovely daughter's 30th birthday cake

Chris's 18th -He likes accoustic guitars

The Lovely Leanne's 10th birthday cake.....she is SO full of life, she can lift the lowest spirits! Thnak you Leanne!

Cake Note 37 "We're supposed to have just a small family affair" Prince William to his prospective Father-in-law

OOOhh WHAT a day! We might be starchy, stiff upper lippy and utterly emotionless, but BY GUM don't we know how to do a Royal Wedding! Hasn't it been great and didn't she look stunning?


I was lucky enough to be invited to spend the day with some friends, to have brunch, lunch and wedding watching....really enjoyed it but couldn't hear everything for all the women yakking!


Anyway, my contribution ot the day was an 8 inch brandy soaked chocolate cake, filled with rose water buttercream and brandy infused blueberry jam......Oh it was DEElicious - even though I say so myself:)

Wishing Catherine and Willaim a long and happy marriage and........


 God Save the Queen!

Cake Note 36: "Molly, my lovely Molly, my sweet Achusle dear - I'm fairly off my trolly my lovely Molly, when you are near"..Foster and Allen

Very short notice order......Molly is eight. She's not girly, she likes Horrid Henry (I don't) but can I make her a non girly cake? Oh no!! I said I'd have a think...

Another phone call.....No Horrid Henry...she love Bruno Mars (who?) and her Mum wants lots of love hearts and music notes...and hot pink....she wants girly...Molly must be growing up:) which I'm pleased about although I'm not a fan of edible images on cakes, but since I'm not clever enough to make Bruno Mars, a photo it had to be.

So, I think I managed to cover the brief, NOT my favourite cake but the owners seemed thrilled.....haven't hear what Molly thinks though and to me...that's the important point of view! Either way, Happy Birthday Molly....xxx

Cake Note 35: "Perfection is attained by slow degrees: It requires the hand of time" Voltaire

...and boy, doesn't it take time!

I think one of the main things that cake makers strive for is......no, not the perfect design - it's the perfect -ly FLAT top of your baked cake! I have tried and tried so many times not to end up with a cake with a dome that then gets lopped off to make a flat top:)

Anyway.....I have succeeded:) This cake is Practically Perfect in Every Way! (Mary Poppins!)

It happened by mistake but I have quickly written down what I did so I can replicate the perfect flat top cake......and here it is, in all its unadorned glory -

Meet my Wonderful FLAT top chocolate cake:)......well, it really is the flattest one I have succeeded in making........I bet I don't have to trim anything off...:)

Swoon if you will!

Cake Note 34: Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. Gian Carlo Menotti

Well I have to say I disagree entirely with Mr Menotti. I have spent the day in the company of one of the UK's foremost sugarcraft artists, and I can only say, his artistry is amazing!

My sugar craft teacher set up a workshop with the amazing Alan Dunn.....everyone in the sugar craft world knows about this man's unique ability to create the most beautiful specimens taken from botanical studies. His attention to detail is so impressive and his flowers....well, I am left speechless! Alan Dunn has numerous books under his belt, he is known all over thr world, and you might expext him to be boring and stuffy...NOPE! He made us laugh, kept us entertained and helped us create our very own masterpieces. NOTHING was too much trouble for him and he was really down to earth and NORMAL!

Thank you Paula for setting up the day and thank you Alan for making it a fantastic experience!

This is what he taught us to make today:)...- it's a passionflower, with a fantasy butterfly. Thank you once again Alan, for sharing your amazing experience -