I rather like making cakes. So, just for something a bit different, I thought I’d post photos of some of the cakes I’ve made. (Happy to take commissions too, if you’re local!)
Banana and Blueberry Traybake
Joltik
He’s a Pokemon…
Minecraft
Penguin
Mole
Rasberry and Chocolate Pavlova
The Golden Snitch
Chocolate Cakes
With popping candyA galaxywith maltesers and pink smarties… as you do.
Easter Cakes
24 White chocolate mud cakes topped with white chocolate ganache and a golden egg:
Party Pinata Mark 2
A Bog Standard Cake
My son said he was happy to have a bog standard cake for his birthday. So he got one.
Black Forest Buns (January 2018)
One morning, my son got up and remembered he was supposed to be taking some cakes to school to share with his GCSE music group. These were a quick response – chocolate fairy cakes with cherries. There was no time to ice them!
Christmas Wreath (December 2017)
Niffler (from Fantastic Beasts, October 2017)
As my fiend said, “mole” isn’t the most appetising colour for a cake, but he was really very cute.
Again, this was a geography project for one of the children, so not actually one I made, just one I supervised.
Lemon Drizzle (July 2017)
Party Piñata (March 2017)
A chocolate shell over a chocolate cake:
Inside it looked like this:
Chocolate Fairy Cakes (May 2017)
Motte and Bailey Castle (February 2017)
Actually, this one’s not mine as such – it was my daughter’s for the school castle competition. It won first prize.
Scones (February 2017)
I’ve never been very good at scones until now. These were quite good.
The Cakes of Mordor (October 2013).
Probably my all-time favourite – front and back, complete with orks.
Yule Log, 2016.
I’ve been making Yule log the same way, with the same decoration, ever since I was taught by Mrs Miller in home economics at school when I was 11. Which is now rather a long time…
Interlocking Lego Bricks, October 2016.
I’m quite proud of this one. Different coloured cakes to create the effect of stacked lego bricks.
The significance of this will probably be lost on you, but I copied a lego station that my son had designed and for which we had ordered the bricks as a birthday present.
Jenni Hyde 