New Flavours

Some of you may have noticed I posted on Facebook recently asking if anyone wanted to help out with new flavour ideas. I had some lovely suggestions and one really jumped out at me.

I like to bake things that suit my mood and with the rubbish weather and dark nights who would ever turn down apple pie and ice cream? This flavour suggestion came from Kira and I'll be popping some of the new cake in the post for her to taste test later in the week.

But now it's confession time.......

I didn't really want new flavours, it was all a secret plot!

A friend of mine is turning 40 next week and I wanted to organise a special treat for her. I wanted her cake to be something she really fancied eating and could enjoy so I came up with the plan to ask for flavour help on Facebook! Luckily she completely fell for it and gave me a few suggestions. I even found out today how disappointed she was that she hadn't won the Facebook competition!

A group of us organised a surprise gathering today to celebrate the upcoming 40th birthday. After we enjoyed lunch the cake was brought out, chocolate and popcorn cake!

The cake was a caramel mud cake and was filled with a chocolate and popcorn filling. I also added popping candy to give extra 'pop'. The whole cake was then covered with chocolate ganache and simply decorated with toffee popcorn :-)






Happy 40th Birthday Belinda! Hope you enjoy the cake and have a lovely birthday xx

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Every Cake Tells A Story....

One of the best things about creating cakes is being able to add something really personal that the recipient will love. The cake I delivered yesterday did this more than any cake I've ever made.

I had a call from G, a new customer, back in September and we discussed her ideas to create a cake for her husband's 40th birthday. The idea really was to capture all of the things Mike loves, from their children, to his hobbies and his job.

I came up with 3 design ideas for G to choose from and the design below was the outcome. I met G and was given lots of design inspiration, including photos of their children, his training shoes, his rugby shirt and of course his (apparently famous!) man-bag. I was able to use these to make sure the cake represented everything he loves as much as possible.

As there were so many elements I've been working on this cake for some time, it really was lovely to finally see it come together this weekend. I delivered the cake yesterday, ready for Mike's party that evening. I hope it was a great surprise as Mike had no idea!

I keep referring to this as a life story cake and I'd love to hear what other people would have to have on their life story cake. Mine would have lots of cake related things of course!