Halloween Cookies

Shortbread cookies covered in fondant,

decorated for Halloween parties.

The skulls were handpainted as were some of the

others.

Love Halloween!

Halloween Witches Cupcakes

Vanilla cupcakes made for a childrens Halloween party

my son was attending tonight (next door)

They had swirls of orange coloured, rosewater buttercream

and a black fondant witches hat

with a silver star on top as decoration.

Ivory Cupcakes

I needed to make cupcakes as a "Thank you" to a dear neighbour

and some for dinner guests today,

so I came up with this design,

and very happy with the look & taste! :o)

A light sponge cupcake

with a generous topping of Rosewater Buttercream,

a circle of paisley embossed fondant,

and a simple handmade fondant flower.

Daisy cupcakes

We have friends over for lunch tomorrow

so I just had to make cupcakes,

and thought that

I might as well use up the daisies I made for the last cake I did!

Yum!

In The Night Garden Theme... Naming Ceremony Cake

I was asked to make a

Naming Ceremony Cake in the theme of

"In The Night Garden"

but without the characters, so this is my take on it!

A 2 tier cake, both chocolate with Rosewater buttercream,

covered in pale green (bottom tier)

and pale blue (top tier)

The bottom cake is decorated with Flower balls & Daisies,

Whilst the top is decorated with pink butterflies, blossoms, clouds and stars.

The topper is a hand cut moon and cloud(s) with the little girls name on

dusted with pearl and silver lustre dusts.

Top tier 9"

Bottom tier 11"

Cherry Blossom

This is an 11" chocolate cake made as a taster for someone,

firstly... I know it's very large for a taster but I needed to try out the cake tin anyway

and combined the two,

secondly... it's a bit on the shallow side because I ran out of eggs

but that doesn't really matter.

The design has nothing to do with anything really,

it's just that I couldn't bare looking at an undecorated cake

and always wanted to try this out.

RAMC Cupcakes

Hubby wanted to take some cupcakes into work for the guys,

as many of them are deploying to Afghanistan soon,

thats why some have desert camouflage fondant

and the others have cherry backing coloured fondant.

They are all topped with RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps) fondant badges,

handmade by me using a mould I made.

Here is a link to show you how I made them

www.flickr.com/photos/smallthingsiced/3920870528/

Wedding Anniversary

Today is our 7th Wedding Anniversary

and apparently it's year is wool or copper

so I thought I would colour the bows copper because of this!

Hubby should be happy as there are no flowers! lol!

Coffee Time Cupcakes

I am having a friend around for coffee this morning

and it would be SO rude not to make cupcakes!

These are vanilla sponge cuppies with swirls of rosewater buttercream

and decorated with red fondant flowers.

Wine Bottle Cake & Rose

I was asked to make Sharon a Birthday Cake by her husband as a surprise,

leaving the design up to me

and knowing that the Birthday girl loves wine I thought I would make her a wine bottle cake

(I have been dying to make one of these!!)

with a sugar rose to give it a more feminine look

and I am very pleased with the result..... as were they!

This is my first attempt making a wired rose,

I didn't have any instructions on how to make it,

so it was complete guess work......I know it's not perfect but I am still very happy with it all the same!

The cake (crate and bottle) is rich chocolate sponge

with rose water buttercream covered in fondant and painted,

the rose is fondant with wire stems laid on a piece of ruffled fondant covered in lustre.

Dairy Milk Bar Cake

Now this is my kind of cake!!!!!

So.......we have a friend coming over today and I promised him I'd make a cake,

I hope he likes it!

Just loved making this...such fun!

This is a rich, moist chocolate sheet cake,

carved and filled/covered in buttercream,

the chocolate chunk end is covered in chocolate fondant (well obviously!)

and the other side covered in fondant.

The foil looking part was dusted with Rimini coloured lustre and silver lustre,

as for the label, the fondant is purple/blue with hand cut lettering (Dairy)

and the rest was painted on freehand....as you can tell LOL!!!

The few individual chunks are also cake covered in chocolate fondant.

Dragonfly Cake

Finally finished.......

didn't even know how I was going to decorate this cake until yesterday (after a few doodles)

and then it was just a matter of going with the flow,

but still went with the style of Christi Friesen as on the dragonfly!

I was so annoyed with myself .....as I was half way round decorating the sides, I had realised that I forgot to cover the board...oh well, at least I didn't make this for anybody!!!...just ME!!! :o)

This is a rich chocolate cake with buttercream,

covered with a cream coloured fondant

and decorated in green and cream hand cut & shaped fondant,

later dusted the deco with lustres to match the dragonfly.

It measures 4 1/2 x 6 inches (H & W

Jewelled Fondant Butterfly

Another Christi Friesen inspired edible creation www.cforiginals.com/

this time as a butterfly in pink & pearl dusts & lustres.

I think I shall try another butterfly shape and tweak it a little

when I get a spare evening........

but I do like the colours!!!

Fondant Dragonfly

This Dragonfly I made out of fondant and I coloured it with green and pearl dusts and lustres.

I have made this to top a cake I will be making for myself, just for fun and ideas.

It measures 4 x 3 1/2 inches

The design is inspired from the fabulous artist Christi Friesen who works with Polymer clay & mixed media www.CForiginals.com

Cheeky Children's Faces Cookies

It's Wills last day at school today

and these are some of the cookies I made for him to give all the children in his class

............sooo time consuming, but they look so cool.

Will insisted I made most of the boys with they're tongue sticking out!!

I got the idea for these from the Planet Cake book,

Naughty Kids Cupcakes......just put them on cookies.......obviously! LOL!!

Thank You Cupcakes

These were made as a "Thank You" gift from my son

to his teachers.

They are vanilla sponge cupcakes covered in rose water buttercream,

with a circle of embossed fondant with a light dusting of lustre

and decorated with handmade fondant daisies and butterflies.

Lifeboat Birthday Cake

A teacher at Will's school asked me if I could make her a cake for her son's 21st Birthday, he is one of the Lifeboat Crew and loves his work! www.gafirs.org.uk/So this is what I came up with. She Loved it!!!The waves were a late addition as I wasn't happy with the look of the base of the boat so hunted around flickr for some inspiration..........that's when I stumbled on a fab Ski Boat Cake by "Springlakecake" and just love how she did her waves and thought they would be perfect, they were quick and very effective!Here is a link to her wonderful creation! www.flickr.com/photos/24367079@N04/2722531956/

KitchenAid

So today is my 40th Birthday!!!

and this is the gift my darling hubby gave to me..........I love it soooo much! mind you I did encourage him to buy the "brushed nickel" one lol! yes it's more expensive, but it is my birthday after all! Bring on the eggs, butter, flour, sugar.........................................................

WALL-E Cake

I made this for my son's (Will) Birthday,

he totally loved it as do I, my favourite cake so far!

Sandcastle Cake for School Fayre

YAY!!!.....my first cake since I had the Op on my wrist......seems like it's been forever!

Anyhow, I have made this for Will's "School Fayre", I had intended to make a small one but I got a little carried away,

it's not huge but bigger than I thought it would be!

The fondant driftwood was soooo inspired by "Betty's Sugar Dreams" cake, obviously nowhere near as good as hers and here is a link to her masterpiece for those very few who haven't seen it www.flickr.com/photos/bettyssugardreams/3594239893/

Bottom tier (9") : Vanilla sponge with Elderflower buttercream.

Middle (6") : Rich Chocolate sponge with dark chocolate buttercream.

Top tier (4"): Vanilla Maderia Sponge with chocolate buttercream.

All covered in a sand coloured fondant

and decorated with fondant shells, starfish, pebbles, pearls, flowers and driftwood with the schools name pressed in,

the sand is soft brown sugar. I hope they like it!

Broken scaphoid........still......... after 20 years

Just thought I would mention why there haven't been any

new posts lately, and this is the reason (see photo above) I had wrist surgery nearly two weeks ago and have to wear this cast for another six weeks, so give me a good couple of months and maybe I will get to make some cakes..............hopefully!!! Thank you for taking the time in stopping by! :o)

3D High School Musical, Cheerleader's Dress Cake

High School Musical, cheerleader dress birthday cake for a six year old. Bottom 3 layers are chocolate sponge,

top 3 layers are vanilla sponge sandwiched together with buttercream

and carved into shape.

The number 6 is handmade out of fondant and decorated with gold balls and sprayed with edible lacquer to gloss it up a little.

The cake stands 23 cm's high.

The SMD on the shirt is the little girls initials (obviously!) Hope she likes it!!! This will be my last cake now, for probably a couple of months but I really did enjoy this one!

Different angles of the cake with candles added These are four stages of the cake making/modeling

Cupcakes For Friends

Myself and Will are going to see friends, so our boys can go and play,

so I am going armed with cupcakes & wine...yum!

These are vanilla sponge cupcakes with buttercream and a circle of fondant,

decorated with a triple flower blossom, fondant swirls and silver balls!

After I had finished these I thought they would make lovely wedding cupcakes!

For the first time in ages I haven't usedb any lustre dust what so ever!!!

Silver & White Petit Four

A rich chocolate sponge

covered in dark chocolate ganache laced with Tia Maria......yum!!!

White non pareils are sprinkled all over,

decorated with a small bloom and sprayed entirely with pearl lustre

which gave it a rich silver look!

A mini, tall cake covered in dusky pink fondant and decorated with a white double flower. A great way to use up cake left overs, cut with a round cutter and spread a light layer of buttercream all over, and cover with fondant. It's a little bumpy but good enough to eat! :o)

Acoustic.......(Guitar Cake)

My first attempt at a guitar cake,

I really enjoyed making this and I was pretty pleased with how it turned out,

as was the lovely lady who ordered it.

It was a little fiddley and time consuming but I would do another in a heart beat!

Fantasy Flower on Jade

Thought I would try my new flower cutters out,

and have a go with some white flowers,

and I really like them.

I am loving this jade green, such a pretty colour!

Valentine Cupcakes

After dropping the fairytale cookies off at school yesterday, Will's teacher asked if I could do her some Valentine style cupcakes for a dinner party she is going to, obviously I said yes and I came up with this design. She was very pleased when she came to collect them........thank goodness!!!

Vanilla cupcakes with Rose water buttercream covered with a circle of embossed fondant and pearl lustre, topped with a single, handmade, fondant heart in red & gold.

Fairy tale Cookies

These Fairytale theme cupcakes were made for my son and his classmate

who were having a fairytale fancy dress day at school.

Simple shortbread cookies dressed in fondant

and finished off with either

a dusting of lustre or a sparkling sugar........

or both!

Double Blossom

Large sized cupcake

with a good helping of creamy buttercream.

This is then covered with a heavy embossed circle of fondant

and a shimmer of lustre dust.

The decoration is a double coloured blossom

and a large fondant pearl.

Little Gem

I love this Blingy little cupcake.

A regular size cupcake with a good dollop of buttercream

and a circle of claret coloured fondant

scored and partly filled with tiny silver dragees

and dusted with mother of pearl lustre,

giving it an almost purple effect!

A single blossom for the decoration with an overload of dragees for the centre!

Claret & Gold Blossom

• Large size cupcake with buttercream and a leaf scored into a circle of fondant and dusted with gold lustre and topped with a Claret coloured blossom, a dusting of gold and a single gold dragee.

YoVille House

This was made for a friend who is a big Yoville fan (Sim game on facebook)

and loves her little house on there! so I thought I would make her a cake of her house,

it's not exact but I think it's quite quaint!....Hope she likes it!

The house is made up of four layers of vanilla sponge with vanilla buttercream

and covered with fondant.

It measures; 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches

Be My Valentine

Large sized cupcake

covered with a red fondant circle dusted with lustre,

decorated with a single large heart dusted with Red & Purple lustre dusts.

Copper/Bronze Sunflower

Muffin sized cupcake

with buttercream and a circle of fondant

with a heavy dusting of bronze and copper lustre.

The topper is a fondant sunflower with copper highlights.

Whimsical Lilac Cupcake

Whimsical Lilac Cupcake #2

Same as the last but this time not quite so 3D looking,

as the leaves here are lying flatter against the cupcake

and also I have used a silver cake case .........

and I think it works better this colour!

Fresh as a Daisy

This regular sized cupcake has been covered

with lashings of Rose Water Buttercream

and decorated with

fresh looking fondant daisies with non pariels for their centres.

A "Thank You" gift

These were made as a thank you to a friend who has helped me out

while I had to visit the hospital.

Vanilla sponge cupcakes with swirls of rosewater buttercream

and topped with hearts & flower chocolates

with decorative chocolate transfers.

Vanilla sponge cupcake with Chocolate Ganache swirls

(my first attempt at making ganache!)

and topped with a single Pink Blossom made of fondant.

Faerie Flowers Cupcake

Any little Tinkerbell fan would love this cupcake topped with sweet flowers

with faerie dust sprinkled all over. Unfortunately I didn't have any edable glitter,

only the Magic Sparkles Flakes,

so I ground them down a little and....

daa-daaaa!!!!!......

faerie dust!!!

Black in Bloom

This is very simular to my "Cupcake in Bloom" design,

which I loved!

I went a little mad with the embossing, but hey!

Bazaar!

Love....The Sweetest Kind!

The title corny I know!!

An embossed blanket of fondant is placed on a buttercream

topped cupcake and dusted with Mother of pearl lustre.

Decorated with two fondant hearts and

lightly dusted again with the lustre.

Delicate

The title says it all.

This one was made because the design was in my head and I had to do it,

I wouldn't make this as an order,

as I was surprised it made it to the next room to get photographed without breaking,

although it has set quite solid.......but travelling? a big NO-NO!!!

I love the way this one looks...so fragile.

Frosted

With it being so cold and frosty out at the moment I thought I

would frost up a cupcake with silver dust!

As usual, decoration made out of fondant, and left

to completely dry

then covered in a dusting of edible silver.

Laura Ashley Inspired #2

Laura Ashley inspired cupcake #2

Green fondant stem/tendrils swirled around the top of a blanket of fondant,

with little leaves and an embossed,

red, three petal flower placed in the centre

Laura Ashley Inspired

I was totally inspired by the gorgeous fabric designs from Laura Ashley

and thought if I took some elements from them,

they would look beautiful on cupcakes!

So this is the first one I have made and hopefully,

some other designs will follow!!

Frosted SnowFlakes

Snowflake cupcakes made for Will (my son) to take to school tomorrow for his teacher's. They are my usual Vanilla cupcakes with a generous helping

of mildly flavoured RoseWater buttercream with a splodge of cream added....yum!

covered in a blanket of fondant sprayed with blue lustre on the one side and pearl lustre sprayed over top

(not that the photo shows this very well)

these were then decorated with various sized snowflakes

and a single edible pearl.

March Of The Penguin Cupcakes

30 Penguins (all handmade from fondant) toppers for cupcakes

made for my son's Classroom Christmas Party

to share out around all his classmates.

Pretty time consuming but worth it as the children and mothers

seemed to like them.

Snow Cookies

I made these cookies

and decorated them simular to the Snowflake Christmas Cake (see below)

Snowflakes made using the patchwork cutters.

The cookies are butter crunch cookies, covered in a circle of white fondant

and decorated with snowflakes and royal icing beads of snow.

Christmas is Coming!

I have been thinking of Christmas Cake designs

as the festive period is just around the corner,

& this is totally inspired from a

3 tiered snowflake cake by Lindy Smith

out of her book "To Inspire & Desire"

The Snowflakes are made out of fondant using patchwork cutters, and I

have got to say, they are not that easy to use!!!!

but I do like the result!

Fantasy

A large muffin sized vanilla cupcake with Rose Water flavoured Buttercream

covered in a shaped blanket of fondant lightly dusted with lustre.

The cupcake has been decorated with hand cut fantasy leaves, flowers and spiral tendrils,

which are all made out of fondant.

Cupcake in Bloom

A Vanilla, muffin sized cupcake covered in a fondant blanket with markings,

decorated with a single embossed red flower

and embossed leaves.

Mehndi Twist

A friend had asked if I could make a Mehndi/Henna inspired cupcake,

just for fun, and this is what I came up with.

I actually like how this looks.

Paisley Passion

I was inspired by all the paisley patterns out at the moment

so this is my take on it, in cupcake style.

I am very pleased with the outcome.

Again a regular sponge cupcake (muffin size) with buttercream, covered in a paisley shaped blanket of fondant, which I then marked and painted & dusted with silver.

The decorations are embossed and dusted with silver paisley shapes and flowers

all of which are edable.

This has got to be my favourite cupcake, I just love the look of it so much!

Romance

A sponge cupcake (muffin size) with buttercream and covered with a blanket of fondant

It has then been decorated with a single bloom and

a pair of embossed Hearts.

Dusted with silver.

Whimsical Midnight Bloom

OK! last night I was thinking about Halloween, and wanted to do some cupcakes but without the usual pumpkins, bats, etc....... and wanted it to have a feminine floral touch, so I came up with this, not spooky or anything but I do like the whimsical look and I love the colours. but I will be using different cases, if I could find a matt silver that would be perfect, so if anyone finds some PLEASE!! let me know!

This is just a regular Vanilla, muffin sized cupcake with buttercream and a blanket of fondant dusted with Silver & Rimini Blue lustre, decorated in the usual blossom and Whimsical leaves and balls, all covered in the lustre.

Chocolate Brown & Pink Embossed Cupcake

This cupcake is a vanilla sponge topped with buttercream

and covered in a blanket of pink embossed fondant,

that has then had a dusting of lustre dust

and finished off with a pink & brown

handmade fondant flower.

This one is now one of my favourite designs.

Inspiration in Ruby & Cream

I named this cupcake Inspiration because I was inspired

by a good friend, Bev (SugarBloom Cupcakes)

if you haven't seen her work I advise you to go and check her Blog

you will find her link in My Favourites.

I took the design from my last cupcake (the green & purple one)

as I loved the embossing so much I copied it

and put it on this cupcake.

Green & Purple Embossed Cupcake

Just some cupcakes I have made to practice some new embossing mats out on. I love this one so feminine. I have painted the embossing a different shade to highlight it and also added some fondant flowers, where the embossed flower should be, so it looks like they are popping out! Then sprayed the whole cupcake with lustre.