The Royal Wedding Cake

As the whole world knows, Prince William and Catherine Middleton were married yesterday at Westminister Abbey. Since my invitation went missing in the post, I resorted to watching the ceremony at home.

There were only two bits that I really wanted to see; the dress [it was beautiful] and the cake [obviously! ;)]. I was even more interested in the cake because it was a Leicestershire business woman called Fiona Cairns who was commissioned to make the cake for their special day. 

There had been a lot of talk in the press and amongst cake designers about what the cake would look like; Would it be royal iced? Would it be traditional or would Kate go for something more modern?

Easter chicken feet cuppies

Happy Easter!

Choccy cupcakes with whipped buttercream

It has been a busy, busy week. Not cake busy, just general busy. I'm on annual leave from work over the Easter period and have been hoping to get lots of cakey things done, but so far I've not managed much!

This afternoon I made some chocolate cupcakes and topped them off with a vanilla whipped buttercream swirl.

Two Chicks

I first saw an advert for Two Chicks Free Range Liquid Egg White in a magazine and to be honest, I initially thought "who'd want that?!"

I don't eat omelette's or drink raw egg and I love egg yolks - it's my favourite bit! So the idea of a product like this baffled me. I know that athletes have egg whites a lot because they are high in protein, but to me the packaging doesn't scream 'body builder'.

I didn't really consider the product again after that.

Mary Jane template, raising funds in aid of G.O.S.H.

The icing on the cake ~ by Jo ~ is raising funds in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital charity (G.O.S.H.) by selling a template and instructions on how to make these fabulous Mary Jane shoes, pictured below.

Let's make people

Thursday was the last of the sugarcraft classes for this term. The topic of the course was modelling, with the brief being "Let's Make People". Over the 10 weeks, we were to complete four projects using different methods and mediums in order to complete them

The first was to make a man sitting on an armchair out of marzipan. Using a 50/50 mixture of sugar paste and flower paste, we then made a child sitting on a rug. The third project was to make a person from one piece of paste, again using the 50/50 mixture. Unfortunately, I have no photographs of these, but they weren't very good so no one is missing out ;)

The final project was one of our own choice. We were to model a person using any of the techniques we had learned over the course. I chose to make a boy with a dog.