Cake Classes!!

After numerous emails aking about the technique behind our sugarpaste and modelling chocolate figures I have launched a class to teach the skills required to make your very own fairy. The class includes all tools and materials required and after the day has ended you will have your very own fairy to take home with you.
For a limited time only this class is just £49 so please email to book in as the days are selling out quickly.

info@sweetassugarcakes.co.uk

Wonderland Party!

Yesterday was a huge success, all of the 24 children had a fantastic time and the entertainers were beyond superb. Magical Quests are a company offering drama filled parties which allow any theme to be portrayed with full costumes and fabulous acting. The children believed they had stepped into Wonderland for the day. They met Alice, the Cheshire cat, the Mad Hatter, The Queen of hearts and the white rabbit on their voyage, playing plenty of games and doing lots of dancing the children could not have been more thrilled.

Here are a few pictures of the day! - I hope you enjoy

The Cast at Magical Quests Ltd

The Tea Party table

Handmade Decorations

Tea Party Bunting

Cute glasses with paper straws and tags

Handmade Cheshire cat who sat in our Apple tree

A couple of the butterflies we had scattered throughout the garden

Handmade 5ft tall guard

Last but not least, the cake!

 

This is why I do what I do!

This morning I woke up to such a lovely comment from a client who had her wedding cake delivered yesterday, after first meeting at the Brighton Baby Expo I am so pleased she decided to have me make her cake and this is what she said -

"I am so glad you didn't show me any pictures of my cake. It was wonderful to see it for the first time as i left my ceremony as a newly married woman.
I can not begin to tell you how perfect it was. I had a tear in my eye when i saw it. I never imagined in my wildest dreams it would be as beautiful as it was. And it tasted absolutely amazing.
Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for making my dream come true."

Party planning madness

Well, my idea of trying to keep blogging more didn't work too well now did it.... oops.

At the moment I have had to turn my cake making into party planning for my daughter. It is her birthday in a mere 2 weeks.... (I'm trying not to panic)..... whats more it is meant to be outdoors..... with the ridiculous amount of rain through this so called 'drought' I am on tender hooks.

Not only do I have a Wedding cake for tomorrow -  (yay Julie's getting married), I also have a sculpted dinosaur cake for next weekend and then the Alice in Wonderland cake for my daughter.

Through all of the planning, making and stress I think I am officially more excited about this party than anyone at the moment, we have 22 of her friends coming and a fabulous cast from Magical Quests..... please check them out the are AMAZING! I currently have a whole host of decorations waiting to be put out, I have made a croquet set, along with a 5ft cut-out of the card guard, a cheshire cat for the apple tree, lots more props, then I decided to take on the laborious task of making all of the girls hair clips and friendship bracelets for the party bags, along with other goodies of course, so much hard work but well worth it I hope...?!!!?

Well this is the snow globe which has given me inspiration for my daughters cake and I will post some pictures of the party (if it goes well).

Long time no Blog!

So, it's now been 3 whole months since I have updated the blog but I am keen to make sure this becomes a regular occurrence!

The past three months have been rather busy, there was a Moulin Rouge cake, a Toy Story cake, another Gruffalo cake, hundreds of cupcakes and a Despicable me cake in the middle of being worked on.

After many emails and requests I have also launched classes to teach modelling skills using cocoform, 2 dates have now sold out already!

So for the time being here are some images and I will be back shortly showing you the Despicable me cake!

Whimsical Wonderland

In the run up to the BabyExpo, I was originally going to make a three tier Beauty and the Beast cake, something dramatic offer a little 'wow' factor, but about 7 days before the show after watching Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland with my beautiful daughter I was made to change my mind. How could I resist my 3 years old saying please mummy make Mad Hatter and pretty princess Alice... her big blue eyes staring up at me... well that was the start of it. Now I was quite nervous in starting this one, not only were the characters played by real people and not 2D cartoons, they were also quite complex with they attire they wore.

So I decided to just to jump in and start, no going back now otherwise I would have the wrath of my daughter to contend with! I started with The Mad Hatter, he was actually really fun to make, the make-up was very dramatic and small touches such as his bow tie made the world of difference to the overall look of him.

Once I had conquered The Hatter it was time to start with Alice. NOW Alice was going to be harder, there was no funky make up to help her look more like, well her. She had gorgeous golden ringlets and a natural flawless skin tone.

So I began, the same way I start the majority of my characters, head first. I always use cocoform for the majority of my characters, as mentioned before it is a fantastic medium to use for fine detailing.

As you can see the start is a bit um, scary looking but as always after a bit more work you can start to see the results.

After modelling her body shape I then had to dress her, 3 layers of clothing later her dress was almost finished.

Now I had to add her arms before I could place the last part of her dress on her and start to add her hair.

And after all of that work she was finally finished.

After seeing the Mad Hatter and Alice together, although they looked great there was something missing, on a three tier cake there needed to add another character, originally it was going to be the rabbit, but there was something mysterious about Absolute, along with his deep blue colouring, I thought he was the perfect addition to add a little drama to the cake. He was made completely out of pale blue cocoform and given dimension using various dusts and colours. I am really pleased with the overall cake and now just want someone to commission me to do something even larger with all of the characters.... any takers?



BabyExpo Boom

Well I have just about re-couped from the busy weekend of the BabyExpo Brighton and am ready to add another post to the Blog.

BabyExpo Brighton was a huge success! We received a great response from the visitors and loads of fantastic comments and remarks, even had some comparing us to 'Ace of Cakes' and ahem 'Cake Boss'.. well they were very lovely things to hear as I am an avid watcher of both programmes!

The main attraction was our Alice in Wonderland cake (Tim Burton's Version) and our little Gruffalo cake, I don't think any parent can resist the tale of the deep dark woods. I do have to admit though, the main thing that made me smile on the day was seeing the children's faces drop with amazement and ask over and over again if they were really cakes (and beg their parents to buy them one)... Please parents do buy :-)

A huge thanks to the organizers, the visitors and of course the other exhibitors who made the day a great success. We got to meet lots of great companies, the one and only Mister Maker and the gorgeous Patsy Palmer.

Here are a few images of our exhibition cakes,

Hope you like!