Come fly with me, lets fly, lets fly away…

I must apologize for my lack of blogging recently, it has been a hectic few months - sitting exams, graduating and moving to the beautiful Bristol! 

This is the cake that I was commissioned to make for one of my lecturers leaving party.

The map was pretty fiddly to do but I loved the vibrant colours (it was MUCH brighter in real life!).

The cake was a traditional vanilla sponge with vanilla buttercream and jam filling, and I am told that it was yummy!

I shall keep this post short and sweet because I have lots of things to do today but I have a couple more cakes to blog about very soon :)

Love you guys ♥

So the competition final was on Friday lunch time.

I was super excited about it! I wore a Bambi print top for the occasion.

They put on a lovely lunch and everybody was super friendly :) 

Well I am sure you want to know how the show went down so I shall not keep you in suspense any longer…

1) Kaffeination Ltd. – Matthias Schmid and his team (£4000)
2) Dukaan – Imtiaz Ul Haq (£750)
3) Beach Bacchanal – Alexandra Gibson (£250)

Just when we thought it was all over, Lynne announced that there was a special judges commendation this year…

Special commendation (£150 towards an industrial food mixer)
Bambi Bakery – Olivia Boston-Smith

Yey! I cried, big fat happy tears. This was to be expected, it is my natural response when I am overwhelmingly happy! Hells, I even cried when I found out I had a place in the competition final!

I get to buy my Kenwood! Yippee! Until December, the mixer I owned cost about £1 - a wooden spoon! Then my housemate got a Kenwood hand mixer as a Christmas present and she has kindly been letting me borrow that ever since. Don’t get me wrong, the Kitchenaid mixers are beautiful, however in business, function will always triumph over fashion. The Kenwood is a timeless classic though, the Elizabeth Taylor of the stand mixers! 

Congratulations to everybody, there were some really amazing ideas and I wish you all the best of luck for the future :D

xoxox

P.s. I have another little project up my sleeve but for now it is a secret for now. I love secrets :)

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose

This is a cake I made a couple of weeks ago for a friend’s mother’s birthday.

Everything you see is edible, the roses and leaves are made out of marzipan, yum yum!

The interior of the cake is an ombre which goes from white through to candyfloss, rose and cerise, I shall post photos of the interior soon :)

Live big and eat cake! xoxo

Food or art?

This is a flower I made out of white chocolate, which has been spray painted with red cocoa butter and dusted with glitter ♥

White chocolate fans and dominoes, with edible cocoa butter transfer ♥

There is nothing better than a friend. Unless that friend has chocolates of course.

Here is a selection of some of the chocolates I made during the Ultimate Chocolate Course at Slattery’s.

Flavours include;

• Banana and Peanut Butter
• Praline
• Sea salt caramel
• Lavender
• Passion fruit sea salt
• Lemon
• Beer
• Elderflower

We also made some curry and some gorgonzola and mango, which I thought were so gross and best not to inflict on unsuspecting friends!

♥

If there’s no chocolate in heaven, I’m not going!!

This is the dark chocolate peel effect cake I created at Slattery’s.

Chocolate cake with fudge filling, coated in velvety dark chocolate ganache, dark chocolate fans, dark chocolate baubles and dark chocolate ‘peel.’

Stunning.

♥