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    Textured wedding cake

    Another close friend was getting married… time for another wedding cake!   This bride had a beautiful colour scheme of dusky pink, cream and grey – how gorgeous are those bouquets! To complement her beautiful natural theme she wanted a simple three-tier wedding with textured buttercream.  The cakes were fruit as the base, a chocolate […]

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    A travel themed wedding cake

    My best friend was getting married and having a travel themed wedding, and she had also been one of my most loyal cake testers over the years.  I was delighted that I was able to make her wedding cake! The wedding cake idea was to have the impact of a cupcake tower in the wedding […]

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    Chocolate caramel fondant cupcakes

    It has been a while since I have done any baking so I thought with a day off, and with grey snowy weather outside I thought it was about time I dusted off my apron and kenwood mixer and baked something tasty. I thought I would try a recipe that I haven’t made before so […]

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    Bryony and Owen’s Wedding

    Back in 2011 I made some red and white heart cupcakes for Bryony and Owen’s engagement party.  and the Queen’s Jubilee weekend in 2012 saw them tie the know at Blenheim Palace and guess who made the wedding cake! Bryony and Owen had decided on a cupcake tower with a top cake for them to […]

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    Sarah and Andrew’s wedding

    Wedding number 3 was my sister Sarah’s wedding to Andrew in Cornwall in autumn 2012.  Sarah and Andrew met in Cornwall with their shared love of surfing and she was inspired by this birthday cake that I had made for my friend Laura earlier in the year. The shell theme was therefore decided but there […]

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    Jenny’s Spring birthday cake

    Jenny is a really good friend and due to holiday and knee operations in the previous few years I had been unable to make her birthday celebrations – therefore this year I definitely had to make up for it and do her an extra special cake! My usual ‘cake style’ is quite classic but thought […]

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    Katie and John’s Wedding

    Wedding cake number two was for my friends Katie and John. Katie is a lucky lady and had lots of people wanting to make her wedding cake so I shared the privilege this time. I was to make some cupcakes and the other girl was to make the centre-piece stacked cakes. Katie and John were […]

  • Cake International 2012

    Another weekend in London and I wanted something inspiring to do so I took myself off to the Cake International show at the Excel in Greenwich. It was a very inspiring place to go with some creative talks for bakers and product suppliers, some cake decoration competitions entries – some of which were absolutely amazing […]

  • Last of the Summer… Lemons

    I had a summer picnic to prepare and what better than something tasty and cakey for dessert? I decided to go for something fresh and light – and what better than lemon cupcakes! I find that a really simple way of doing a lemon cake (although it is cheating a little bit) is to bake […]

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    It’s bee’n sunny

    Well maybe it hasn’t actually been sunny but inside CBHV HQ I’ve been having some fun making bee’s and sunflowers for a birthday cake order – which certainly put me in a sunny mood. Making the cute little bees it was very hard not to keep a smile on my face as they took shape […]

Textured wedding cake (II)

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Another beautiful wedding this year and another beautiful textured wedding cake for Lizzie and James.

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Textured wedding cake

This cake had 3 tiers of light fruit cake, chocolate fudge and lemon decorated, sandwiched with a white chocolate buttercream.

The decoration was an off-white white vanilla buttercream, textured using a spiked ‘leveller’ and decorated with hand-wired roses, eucalyptus and gypsophilia aka baby’s breath.  To finish off hand-piped beading covered the gap between the layers.

This was such a simple design, yet it is amazing how the real flowers really transform the cake and take it to another level.

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hard at work wiring flowers