Pretty Pictures

I know I'm at risk of posting too many pictures of this cake, but I just HAD to put up these gorgeous photos that were taken by the professional photographer at this wedding. 

His photos of the wedding are really stunning- you can see his work on his website http://www.davidnelson.com/ He is incidentally also a fellow scientist and has some cool pics of sciency people in his portfolio (There is not a cheesy "white coat and thoughtful-hand-on-chin" shot in sight!).

Thank you to Dave for sending me these pictures! 

Weddings and Watercolours

I realised that I haven't updated this blog in a while so here is a little catch-up. Firstly, here is a 3-tiered wedding cake that I did for a wedding at Cranage Hall, in Cheshire. It's a simple, elegant and classy ivory cake covered in a pearlescent shimmer, which doesn't pick up too well on the photos. Each layer was trimmed with a silver chain of diamantes and finished with satin ribbon and a diamante brooch. The flavours were lemon drizzle (with lemon curd and lemon buttercream), ginger with orange buttercream and carrot cake with a lightly spiced cinnamon buttercream.

Next up was another wedding cake. This time it was a 4 tier (lemon drizzle, 2 x chocolate fudge and carrot cake), which had to survive a 200 mile journey to Quendon Hall in Essex!! The black and white design on this cake was so intricate that there would be no time to re-do if the cake didn't make the journey. Here is a picture of the cake before I piped on the design.

Here is the finished article, finished with fresh roses and black feathers (provided by the couple's florist, who did an AMAZING job of the flowers). The cake really suited the couple and the venue and as you can see, it survived a long motorway drive just fine (even with my somewhat erratic driving!).


The bride and groom did their Bachelors and PhDs in the same department/university (that is also how they met each other and how I know them), and as a little nod to this I wrote a bit of computer code* discretely on the back of their cake.

* in a non-specific, generic language.

Lastly, then I'm up to date, it's my Mum's birthday cake. She's likes doing a number of things (gardening, cooking, walking) but she really likes watercolour painting so I made her a watercolour-themed birthday cake. Everything in this photo is 100% edible and made out of sugar, even the "paintings", which I feel I should point out are a grave injustice to my Mum's paintings!

If anyone wants to order a cake like this, I'd charge about a trillion pounds since it was so labour intensive, but my Mum's worth it ;-)

Tracey