Second Anemone

This is the second time I have written a blog about this cake. The first post was:

This was a different way of working for me. Holly and Martin spent most of their time abroad and our only contact was email. They had seen images of things they liked and we decided to design something based upon that. Their colour scheme was deep purple and their flowers were anemones. So a cute little anemone with a purple centre was the centrepiece of this pretty cake.

 I recently came across a Facebook status from Thornton Manor with a link to this photographer's site and after emailing them, they kindly sent me some images of  Holly and Martin's cake! Was lovely to see the whole day and the very beautiful anemones that were present throughout their day and were the inspiration for this cake. Was also very lovely to receive a couple of very lovely pictures of the cake; which shows it off so much better than the first post and my camera phone...

Gorgeous pictures by Murray photography who can be found here:

www.murrayphotography.com

A marriage of cake and stationery with flowers

Each tier of this lovely lace cake for Sheila and Tom's wedding at Hillbark Hotel was fruit. Our gorgeous very mature fruit cake which was doused with brandy, covered with apricot preserve, marzipan, icing so that finally the gorgeous lace panels could decorate two tiers of the cake. The lace panels are painstakingly cut from their press and tiny details are then cut out from the centre of the panels by hand.

To pick out even more detail, we then pipe over with royal icing to achieve this look. Sheila wanted some sparkle on the cake to compliment her dress so we added a few tiny diamante every now and again as flower centres. Lastly the bow was placed just above the bottom tier at a slightly quirky and off centre angle which I think finished off this cake.

These images were taken by http://www.cgweddings.co.uk/ whose diary of pictures of the whole day is stunning.

The amazing flowers on the cake table are by Earth flowers: http://www.earthflowers.co.uk/  Earth also dressed the beautiful table plan made by Ling at Dragonfly Couture Stationery: http://dragonflycouturestationery.com/

This wedding was such a perfect example of every element completing the next. I really like the way the flowers linked the table plan to the cake and everything in between and that I was able to see the day from beginning to end through the pictures; and that I saw Sheila's exquisite dress!

A cake for a birthday

We make a lot of Birthday cakes which I will add now and again, here's just a selection, from something very pretty and girly with paper thin flowers to something that looks like it will tear through another cake...(see chainsaw post!!) We absolutely love making pretty things here and love to be challenged. It's also great to find out different ways of doing things like different ways to make flowers that we've made for years. It's always eye opening.
Last week as well as the eight tier lace cake; which Helen and Stuart loved(!) we made amazingly chocolatey chocolate birthday cake which certainly killed the chocolate cravings for a week or two... and we made an 'exquisite' little rose and pearl flower spray for a ruby wedding anniversary. Images of this will also be uploaded when the computer plays ball and uploads them. Cake toppers which were sticking out of the top of the chocolate cake were also made last week with 'Happy Birthday' and message piped on to pink hearts and stars. It was all we could do to stop ourselves from eating the remaining revels, milky bar buttons, galaxy caramel balls, malteasers... the list goes on. But we were restrained. It is Summer after all...!!