sugar flowers

This cake was for my lovely neighbour Gabriele’s 40th birthday party this weekend. She had the most gorgeous garden party with a seriously cool marquee, delicious food and plenty of dancing. I knew a cake that was pretty and elegant would be her style and so I drew inspiration from this black and ivory Peggy Porschen cake for the design. It was my first time making anemones (which I still have trouble pronouncing – why?!) and they turned out really well. I love how the monochrome makes …

Lovely Dominique asked me to make some cupcakes for her 30th birthday. She was having a garden party so I figured some girly flowers would go nicely. I chose to make some little cherry blossom flowers, by making super pale pink flowers and dusting them with a slightly darker shade and dotting the middle with an even darker pink. I matched the …

It’s been a while. Too long in fact and I’m sorry. I have a pretty good excuse though, so hear me out. I’m currently doing an internship in an amazing cake shop. Working as hard as I can and learning a lot. I’m there most waking hours of the week so outside of work have only made a few cakes here and there over the past six weeks. They have also had to happen mostly in the dark at night so I haven’t had a chance to take many proper photos. Ok excuses over. Let me tell you about this cake which …