I LOVE handbag cakes! And I love this cake too - I wasn't too sure how the colours would work out until it started coming together but I think they are really striking. Phew! If they hadn't worked it would have only been my fault as it was ...
Birthday Cakes
Discover a selection of Birthday Cakes at Casa Costello. Many contain tutorials for beginner cake makers with designs for experience sugar crafters.
Cath Kidston and Personalised Cupcakes
Another special celebration for our house - lovely Millie was 9 last week and therefore has to be Cake of the Week. Millie is truly lovely - she is gentle, grown-up, fun and innocent all at once. She mixes so well with her friends and we ...
How to make a Hello Kitty Cake Topper
After the success of the gruffalo tutorial, I wish to present another 'How to' tutorial - How to make a fondant Hello Kitty cake topper again using a creme egg middle. I have had a few people asking what to use if creme eggs are not ...
Hello Kitty Cake and Cupcakes
Very very late posting my Cake of the Week - A Hello Kitty Cake complete with matching Cupcakes and Cake Topper. This is a special cake for me as it is my daughter, Violet's 5th birthday cake - and I get to eat it! Yay! The Hello Kitty ...
Simple Peppa Pig Cake
I am having the type of day today when it is hard to imagine completing any task - even getting a wash load in the machine seems impossible. No particular reason, just one of those days. So it is nice to look back over the last week and ...
Baby Girl Christening Cake
Going through some archived pictures - This is a Christening Cake from 2010 for a couple whose wedding cake I made a couple of years ago. I have to admit this cake seemed to take forever as there were loads of little bits - The topper ...
Bra Retirement Cake
I know I have said it a million times but I love this cake! One of my last cakes before going on maternity leave for a good chunk of 2011 (don't worry I still have loads of cakes to post and I'm sure the cakes my family get me doing are ...
Formula 1 Birthday Cake
What is it with me and vehicles? The brief for this order was either a Volkswagon Golf (Argh!!!) or something Formula 1 - neither of which particularly float my boat (oh god, another vehicle) but in the end we decided on F1. Chris is a lad ...
Boy and Girl Christening Cake Ideas
After a long absence from the blog, I am back with loads of new stuff to post. Millions (well nearly) of cakey and baking books to review (its a serious addiction of mine and all part of the plan to own and use 200 good baking/cook books by ...
80th Birthday Cake
A cake from last week - My brief was a Dad sat in a cream chair reading the Daily Telegraph. From speaking to one of his daughters it turned out that he was way more interesting than just that! Also included was a cup of tea (what self ...
