The Scarlet Collection

Reds and scarlets are traditional celebratory colours, particularly at Asian weddings. This cupcake collection has been designed to complement the bride on her special day and is also great for anniversaries, valentines and mothers day celebrations.

The winter wonderland collection

Corporate Cakes

Here is a selection of corporate cakes and cupcakes we have created for our clients.

Floral Crown Cake

'Floral crowns' are a great way to enhance bridal beauty, but ever thought of crowning a cake? Well this design does just that. It's a perfect cake for spring/summer weddings with it's soft tones and touches of the traditional 'whites'.  The side-bow adds an elegant touch and 'completes the look'. 

This cake was donated for a silent auction for a Macmillan fund-raiser event held at a local venue.

W.I.T.H. L.O.V.E.

Last weekend we celebrated my son, Mikaal's 'ameen' (the completion of the reading of the Holy Quran). This was a proud moment for me, I must say, and so I wanted to create a cake which was reflective of my feelings of joy and celebration. As my son is usually so keen on 'themed' cakes I thought it would be impossible to create a cake that would please him as well as being right for the occasion, but as you can see from the smile on his face, he was more than happy with the end result. 

A four tier  fully iced cake, adorned with celebratory 'bunting' and a signature plaque for the main man of the moment, Mikaal...

made W.I.T.H. L.O.V.E......

Les Cadeaux

This Parisian style two tier gift box cake was a delight to make and is perfect for any girly birthday do. 

 Two tiers of light Victoria sponge cake covered in luscious vanilla bean buttercream and fondant. 

Liverpool FC cake

This two tier Liverpool FC cake is made with two fully iced Victoria sponge cakes. The football is made from rice crispy treats covered in fondant. All features of this cake are hand made and edible.  

Man U cake

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Fashionable giant cupcake

This was my very first attempt at a Giant cupcake with matching cupcakes. It was done for a young lady who loves make up, shoes, handbags and glitter. To find out how a giant cupcake is put together visit the following link:

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Giant cupcake formation!

Something Blue...

A luxury three tier wedding cake for that special 'something blue'.

Here's how the sugar roses blossomed for this cake....

Starting life as buds

The very first petal

Second row of petals

Third row...

Completed roses...

The icing on the cake!

Blue blossoms and signature butterflies

The complete cascade of roses

Mercedes Benz Cake Tutorial

This Mercedes Benz E-Class Cake was made out of a 10 inch square mud cake which was cut into half and placed one piece on top of another. I then carved the side profile of the cake (with a serrated knife) using a printed image of the car which was held up against the cake.

I made sure the width of the car was proportional to the length by measuring the maximum width of the car from the printed images and trimming the excess straight down.

I then carved the roof of the car which was slightly narrower than the base of the car at a slight tilt until I reached the bottom of the window level. I also cut out the tires with a circle cutter.

Next I cut the entire cake into three vertical sections (which I admit made me nervous) and filled with white chocolate ganache. I then covered the whole cake as neatly as possible with which chocolate ganache using a pallet knife.

I then let the ganache set and smoothed again with a palet knife dampened with warm boiled water. This was so that the fondant had something to stick to.

I then rolled out some light grey fondant (tinted using edible black gell colour) to about 1/4 inch thickness and covered the cake, smoothing the corners first (with the palm of my hands) before the rest of the car. I then slit into the tire areas and tucked excess fondant into cake.

I then trimmed the excess fondant with a butter knife and smoothed over the surface of the cake with a cake smoother.

Then I spray painted the car with silver edible lustre spray and began to mark out the details of the car using a dresden tool.

(Back details impressed using photo images of car...)

I then used edible black gell colour diluted with a little cool boiled water to paint around the bottom of the car cake to give it a 'raised' impression. 

I then painted on details of the grill and the front bumper

I made tires and side lights out of fondant mixed with a little Tylo powder. I used the tire of a toy car to make the impression (this was thoroughly cleaned beforehand with detergent and detol!) and then cut around these using a circle cutter. These were painted with the same black gell and liquid edible silver lustre for the rims. I allowed these to dry overnight so that they were firm. The side lights were shaped with my fingers into rounded triangular shapes.

I then attached the side lights using a little piece of dry spagetti strand inserted into each of them and inserted these into the car with some edible glue to help them stick. I also painted the windows with edible clack gell mixed with a little cool boiled water and once this had dried went over them with confectioners glaze.

 I made front/back number plates and head/back lights using fondant rolled out and cut to shape with an craft knife and attached to cake using edible glue. The details were completed with various colour edible ink pens/gells. 

Last but not least the all important Mercedes Benz logo! This was done by piping royal icing (mixed with a litlle black gell and silver edible lustre) free hand onto grease proof paper (allow to dry for a few hours at least) and slowly release and lift using thin palet knife and place onto front of car, attaching it with a little edible glue/royal icing. VOILA!