PACMAN Birthday!

For my husband's birthday & with very little time this year I had the challenge of making a cake with a computer game theme. My husband loves his space games especially Elite Dangerous, so an easy but retro idea came to mind....

Cupcake Icing

For a good friend's birthday, we had to have pretty cupcakes!

Helicopter Cake

When your toddler is helicopter mad & constantly asks for a helicopter cake for his birthday, you have to step up to the mark! So here was my attempt at a helicopter cake using a chocolate orange vegan cake recipe.

Yacht Cake

We were asked to make a birthday cake for a friend's 30th birthday a few weeks ago.

He likes sailing so we decided to make a yacht cake...

I was quite impressed with the final piece :)

Creative Cakes - Vintage Bus

It was my dad's 60th birthday last week, so we decided to make him a creative cake...

...he loves vintage buses...

...especially Samuel Ledgard buses, which was a bus company which operated in north Leeds in the 1960s, hence why the bus is blue and has "SL" on the side...

...we were really impressed with how it turned out and we're a little bit proud!!!

I will share a blog post of how I made it when I get around to writing the post so you can have a go yourselves, if you have any vintage bus fans in your family.

R2D2 cake special

R2D2 with birthday boy!

Ok, this is a few weeks late and many of you will have already seen the photos of Luke's birthday cake, which I made this year. He challenged me to make him a Star Wars cake and not being the slight-ist bit knowledgable about Star Wars I had to do some research.

Whilst researching I stumbled across this blog post, a Star Wars birthday cake by Nest of Posies. It was perfect to help me conquer the challenge my husband had set me :)

I started by making 4 cakes, 2x 8 inch round (Vegan Chocolate Orange Cake, which I will share the recipe for sometime soon!) and 2x 8 inch square (Victoria sponge). Once the cakes were cool, the Chocolate Orange cakes were placed on top of one another with a chocolate spread filling and the Victoria sponge were placed on top of one another with a jam filling. 

After this I followed a Nest of Posies instructions to cut out the shape of R2D2.

Shape of R2D2 by cutting out the cakes

Next began the fun bit icing. I made glace icing using icing sugar and adding a tbsp of boiling water at a time until the consistency was thick but spreadable.

R2D2's body and legs were iced first and then I added a few drops of black food colouring to make grey icing for his head, unfortunately I made the grey icing a bit too thin so it ran quite a bit.

An iced R2D2

R2D2 was then left for the icing to set (I put him in the fridge for a few hours) before I added the detail.

For this I needed a photo of R2D2 which I found online and using some ready made blue piping icing I added the blue detail.

The finished product

I was very pleased with how he turned out, he wasn't perfect but I thought he looked pretty good for a first attempt...I don't know whether I'll beat this next year.