cakes mmmmm!!

Cake decorating stems from my dad again,

I cant remember what age i was but one year he decided we would decorate a Christmas cake. We bought the fruit cake and covered it in marzipan and icing then the decoration was a chimney with Santa's legs sticking out the top. It was the most amazing cake i had ever seen and he made it look so easy. So for the past few years i have been decoration cakes at Christmas.

This cake had like a scroll on top with the music notes to "We wish you a merry Christmas"

Last year for my little girls birthday i decided to give it a go making her a special cake. I decided on a Fairy castle, this would be a challenge as i was so used to working with the firm fruit cakes and now was having to change to sponge its completely different when icing.The icing came out all crushed and wrinkled when i finally got it on the cake so to disguise it i covered the castle in vines and flowers, the towers were made from iced Swiss rolls, and the fairy's my mum found at a craft fair.

After doing a cake for my daughter i felt obliged to do one for my son when his birthday came. Pirates was his theme, this needed a bit more time and research so i joined a cake forum and was given some pictures for reference and a few recipes for the cake mix.

Playmobil pirates for decoration and chop sticks to hold the paper sales up, but everything else was edible, well almost (as one of the sponges was quite cooked)

Zoe's birthday is next week and i though long and hard about making her one this year but with an oven the takes 2weeks just to get to the right temperature it would probably be a total disaster. so i have a new plan and hopefully next week i will have an update on it.

so far iv been through collars, wrapping and cakes, still have a few more things to add before going on to what I'm working on now but hopefully by the end of the week the blog will be up to date with whats going on.

katie

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